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Climate change is the most consequential threat multiplier for women and girls, with far- reaching impacts on new and existing forms of gender inequities… The cumulative and gendered consequences of climate change and environmental degradation breach all aspects of the rights of women and girls. That’s changing – with momentum building over the previous decade. According to the Office of National Statistics, in 2018 about 17% of farmers were women, up from 7% in 2007-2008. In higher education courses, women agricultural students now outnumber men almost two to one, making up 64% of the 2017-2018 graduates. Gala Bailey-Barker: ‘I would have loved to see women farming as a child. It was never presented as a possible career at school.’ Photograph: Alex Lake/The Observer

Dentzman, Katherine, Ryanne Pilgeram, Paul Lewin, and Kelsey Conley. 2021. Queer farmers in the 2017 US Census of Agriculture. Society & Natural Resources 34 (2): 227–247. Sustainable Brands. (2020, September). Primark and CottonConnect: Bringing sustainable cotton from field to fashion. Retrieved from https://sustainablebrands.com/read/supply-chain/primark-andcottonconnect-bringing-sustainablecotton-from-field-to-fashion ↩ This especially applies to women who have depended on traditional knowledge but need to learn about new climate- smart practices with the changing/unpredictable weather patterns as it is challenging for women farmers to anticipate onset of rains.Constance, Douglas H., Jin Young Choi, and Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland. 2008. Conventionalization, bifurcation, and quality of life: Certified and non-certified organic farmers in Texas. Journal of Rural Social Sciences 23 (1): 9. Last year, the CEO of Aviva and Chair of the ‘Women In Finance Climate Action Group’ led a session at COP 26 urging for climate finance to have a gender lens. One-third of female farmers in India are unpaid laborers on family farms owned by their parents, husbands or in-laws, according to OXFAM. Indian women own just 12.8% of the country’s land. The Lancashire County Council Farm was set up in 1890 to provide training in practical and theoretical agriculture. The first intake of students were all local women, who attended classes in butter and cheese making.

A similar outcome was found by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in the coffee sector in Indonesia, where productivity increased 131 percent for groups which trained both men and women, whereas it increased 95 percent for men- only groups. [footnote 18] https://blogs.worldbank.org/climatechange/when-poverty-meets-climate-change-critical-challenge-demands-cross-cutting-solutions#:~:text=The%20connection%20between%20climate%20change,their%20own%20countries%20by%202050 ↩ Our Ripon High Gloss wellies are our most stylish pair yet, featuring vibrant colours of red and purple to give any outfit a real pop of colour. We’ve perfected the design of our wellies and tried and tested them to ensure maximum comfort too because we know that wellies can be uncomfortable when wearing them for long periods of time. New Fairtrade research reveals a large group of women are being left behind by the chocolate industry building capabilities and knowledge through training on climate smart agricultural practices and access to extension servicesAn International Women’s Day protest in New Delhi by Indian farmers and women’s organizations on March 8. Imtiyaz Khan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Unequal market access Ball, Jennifer A. 2020. Women farmers in developed countries: A literature overview. Agriculture and Human Values 37: 147–160. See detailed case study in Business Fights Poverty (2020) Engaging Men as Allies Report https://businessfightspoverty.org/gender-equality-is-everyones-business-engaging-men-as-allies-to-advance-gender-equality-across-the-value-chain/ ↩ Time spent on unpaid care and domestic work poses a barrier to education, including learning new climate-smart practices to mitigate against climate change impacts. In other studies increased time spent on domestic chores due to climate change has also been associated with girls being taken out of school to help families, exacerbating gender inequalities in education levels. [footnote 32] At a recent meeting of our local rural misogyny survivors network (also known as “Women That Farm”), every woman present introduced themselves with an apology that th