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Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 08 1:29 pm Post subject: Women in farming
Interesting article in the 'Women' section in the Guardian's G2 ... https://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,,2262252,00.html

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42208
Location: North Devon

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 08 1:30 pm Post subject:
Oh well, no wonder the industry's in crisis.

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 08 1:34 pm Post subject:

Women have always played a key active role in most family farms, though there does seem to be an increasing number at the forefront of the industry now. At college there were about thirty of us on the agriculture course, and only one female (oh no, wait until sean or Behemoth gets wind of that

). I'd like to see more ethnic groups in British farming too, it's still very white dominated at the moment.

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 6546
Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 08 1:36 pm Post subject:

I think that women will be (and are fast becoming) the driving force behind sustainable agriculture, just as they often are in other parts of the world, and in the past. Hopefully nowadays it will be with much more empowerment...

At the winter NOFA (northeast organic farmers association) conference this year, both keynote speakers were women, and a quite large proportion of the younger farmers were women

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