Female Leaders Cultivate New Initiatives to Bolster Role in Agriculture

June 2, 2011 | Stephanie Schiefelbein

Women are a growing force in today’s food movement and they’re not going anywhere. From 2002 to 2007, the number of women farmers increased by 30 percent.

To support and bolster this growing crop of women farmers and activists working to transform the nation’s food system, from federal agriculture policy to plate The White House Project (WHP), Women, Food, and Agriculture Network (WFAN) and Rural Women’s Project of the Midwest Organic & Sustainable Education Service (MOSES) have collaborated on a project called Plate to Politics. Read More