Celebrating “Women & Farming” for International Women’s Day

Women play a significant role in agriculture the world over. Did you know, for example, that:

• In 2007, women made up about 41 percent of total employment in agriculture globally? https://www.fao.org/3/i0765e/i0765e10.pdf
• In 15 EU countries, women hold 20 percent of agricultural land, compared to the 77 percent held by men and 3 percent by government? https://www.fao.org/3/i0765e/i0765e10.pdf
• In the last decade in the EU, agriculture was the seventh largest employer of women? The professional status of rural women in the EU, May 2019
• According to government statistics, women make up 55% of the farming workforce in England and Wales if you include unpaid and family labour. But only around 16% are officially ‘farm holders’ – that is land owners or managers? NFU the voice of British Farming 16 November 2021
• Women in the UK are very optimistic about the role they will play on farms and in shaping UK agriculture over the next decade? Farmers Weekly 13 June 2014

Did you want to know more about the role of women in British Farming and Agriculture? Explore this book (under 331.4831 by Sarah Whatmore) and many more Library’s books/ebooks, journals /e-journals and online resources with reference to women and work, women and farming, women and leadership and get hooked in reading about the achievements of women in science, civil rights, arts, technology and beyond!

To commemorate 8^th March we have chosen 10 books on the subject “Women and Farming”. Browse these titles below or borrow from the library shelves!

1. Women and Farming Wava G. Haney (1988)

331.483

• Women in Agriculture World wide Amber Fletcher (2017)

331.483

• Gender and Law Women’s rights in agriculture Lorenzo Cotula (2002)

331.483

• Gender and Rural Geography Jo Little (2002)

307.72

• Feminist Perspectives on land law Hilary Lim (2007)

346.043

• Farming, fighting and family: a memoir of the Second World War

Miranda McCormick (2015)

630.904

• Women, family and work: writings on the economics of gender

Karine S MOE (2003)

331.4

• Women in Precision Agriculture: Technological Breakthroughs, Challenges and Aspirations for a Prosperous and Sustainable Future (2021)

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• Women in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Biotechnology (2017) Laura Privalle

331.483

    10. Farming women Sarah Whatmore (1991)

331.4831

Check out our resource list by searching ‘International Women’s Day’ in RAU Resource lists here: https://rl.talis.com/3/rau/lists/E154166A-D6FC-7F42-D9EE-1AE26F16EB56.html?lang=en

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