GROW, 2020. Pg3 – ‘Boosting Yields and Income; The Business Case for Supporting Female Cocoa Farmers in Liberia’ https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5afe8501aa49a1c2cb2fab10/t/5f6a686660c8ce7110c358e6/1600809063456/The+Business+Case+for+Supporting+Female+Cocoa+Farmers+in+Liberia.pdf ↩ Sam Ludlow Taylor, Senior Manager, Human Rights Programmes, John Lewis Partnership (John Lewis and Waitrose) United States department of agriculture national agricultural statistics service. 2022. Census of agriculture. Retrieved 5.9.22 from https://www.nass.usda.gov/AgCensus/

After a hard day’s work these women still have to do most of the domestic chores – combining this with the farm work, this means women work 30% more than men* Climate Finance Taskforce. (2021). Ways to Gender-Smart Climate Finance: Sustainable agriculture, food and forestry. Retrieved from https://static1.squarespace.comstatic/60d997f2ecd20831960869e0/t/60e086e4f5551016f147a43b/1625327333075/2X_ClimateTaskforce_Agri_v8.pdf ↩ It is not, as yet, uncommon for there to be little or no assessment of the human impacts of Net-Zero goals that include Scope 3 emissions. [footnote 14] What might happen to women workers, for example, if a company decides to reduce transportation emissions through ‘near shoring’, or being geographically closer to the end user? Women with strong property and inheritance rights earn nearly four times more money, the land rights nonprofit organization Landesa stated in a 2018 report.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. Despite representing 40-60% of agricultural labour forces globally, not enough women farmers and workers are enabled to adopt climate-smart agriculture and nature based solutions. Where we want to be (rewards) We offer a variety of skirts and dresses, including midi dresses, pencil skirts, and elegant long dresses that are perfect for brunch with friends or impressing colleagues at the office. Whether you need workwear, athleisure, or swimwear, we've got women's clothing for every occasion. The imbalance in access to property has partly to do with India’s inheritance laws. Hindu, Jain, Sikh and Buddhist women in India were given equal inheritance rights to ancestral property in 2005 – legally, if not always in practice. Women of other faiths have separate personal laws governing property rights in India. 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.

The response was really revealing as to the state of where we think our food comes from,” says St Germans, who also co-founded the Port Eliot festival. “Many didn’t know where their nearest farm was. Farmers helped each other out, including neighbours’ surplus produce into their deliveries. People started to use the database not only for themselves, but to shop for shielding relatives. One of the things that most surprised me is how many people thought farming was mundane, only done on a large scale, or just done by men.” Pilgeram, Ryanne. 2011. “The only thing that isn’t sustainable…is the farmer”: Social sustainability and the politics of class among Pacific Northwest farmers engaged in sustainable farming. Rural Sociology 76 (3): 375–393.Willowbrook is run according to Islamic principles to live in balance with the environment – physical, social, political and economic – and Radwan believes they may have been the first ethical and sustainable halal farm in the UK. They used to have certification from the Soil Association but decided to work outside that system, still maintaining high standards of sustainability, welfare and biodiversity. “We let our customers in to see the farm and be our conscience,” Radwan says. “They’re going to question us – and that keeps us on our toes.” We have a long term vested interest in a resilient cocoa supply chain, and understand the potential of joining climate and gender.

Glencross’s path to farming was circuitous. She studied chemical engineering, but while her classmates were heading off for jobs at ExxonMobil and Procter & Gamble, she was more of “a hippy at heart”. She decided she wanted to learn more about soil and its role in food production. This led her to Blue Hill Stone Barns, Dan Barber’s pioneering farm-to-table restaurant in the Hudson Valley, north of New York. She spent four months working on the farm and in the bakery, receiving a crash course in ancient grains – an obsession of Barber’s. But the moment Glencross knew she herself wanted to farm came in 2016 in a field in Hertfordshire. She was with John Cherry, who was showing her around Weston Park Farms, 2,500 acres of land he maintains with minimal fertiliser use and zero tillage. access to appropriate crop and climate related insurance products including via enhanced mobile and digital access A ‘digital divide’, in part due to girls having fewer years of education than boys, means women have less access to digital and other technologies than men. With digital assets and technology increasingly playing a role in climate change responses [footnote 58], for instance weather information updates sent by SMS, limited access and ability to use digital assets may limit women’s ability to respond to climate change.In a given crop season, when fields are sown and harvested, women farmers in India work about 3,300 hours, double the 1,860 hours their male counterparts put into farming. Many of us have ambitious Net-Zero targets and Sustainable Development Goals commitments that urgently need to be met if we are to avoid a world warmed beyond 1.5 degrees in a way that ‘leaves no one behind’. Go ahead and explore our range of ladies farm wellies and farming footwear and let us know if you have any questions - we'll be more than happy to help you. Are you looking for some farmer's boots for a country gent? If so, go ahead and browse our men's collection of farm boots. Monica, White. 2012. Sisters of the soil: Urban gardening as resistance in Detroit. Race/Ethnicity Multidisciplinary Global Contexts 5 (1): 13–28.

We think there is strong evidence that women are a growing share of the people in California’s agriculture industry,” Joseph said. “We know that women have always been essential parts of the farming community in California. But their roles have often been overlooked in behind-the-scenes tasks that are undervalued as key pieces of [agricultural] operations’ success, such as bookkeeping, marketing or customer relationship building.”Waitrose Kenya study: Amy Morris, Barney Smyth (John Lewis Partnership); Tom Cadogan, Mary Nyale, Diana Onyango, Joseph Wachira (Farm Africa).