Today, on International Women’s Day, CottonConnect celebrates the remarkable contributions of women, who make up 46% of the estimated 31.5 million cotton farmers worldwide. In its newly launched ...

Now 82, Mbok Sutinah — Mbok is the Javanese nickname for an older woman — has been selling watermelon to support her family since her husband's death in 1987. The watermelon comes from her late ...

A 19-year-old mechanic in Nigeria who maintains the water supply, a ground-breaking jazz guitarist from Sudan, deep-sea diving women in their ... husband's watermelon farm, which Mbok has ...

Turkish women farmers will have greater representation in agricultural projects under a UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) quota aimed at increasing income-generating opportunities for them.

Farm incomes for women farmers “are consistently lower “than for male farmers and they receive lower direct farm payments, according to a new study published today (Friday, March 7). The study by ...

you need more women bosses, according to Papua New Guinea (PNG) journalist Gloria Bauai. The UN’s global International Women's Day theme for 2025, 'for ALL Women and Girls: Rights. Equality.

National Association of State Departments of Agriculture members passed an action item at NASDA’s Winter Policy Conference supporting the United Nations’ resolution declaring 2026 as the International ...

The company is currently working with a network of more than five thousand marginal farmers, including more than a thousand women farmers and is empowering them through indigenous food categories, ...

The overall result of Thursday’s provincial election hasn’t really changed the big picture, but that doesn’t mean there weren’t some interesting outcomes.