Women in Agriculture
As the UN is about to talk about Rural Women for the first time from February 27-March 9, it is important to remember how feminine the face of global farming is. In Canada, farming is largely a male domain, but in places like Africa and Asia it is a very different picture.
As we contemplate this, I was struck by this TED video that talks about women entrepreneurship. We already know women’s co-operatives are frequently part of primary processing in developing world agriculture, but we talk about it as a rarity – an anomaly. The broader discussion of female entrepreneurship highlights the need to think of women not as a special interest group, but as half the world’s population. So as Gayle Tzemach Lemmon says, why do they only get micro credit and micro chances?