AgribusinessThe chair of a Heifer-supported cooperative in Siem Reap, which grew from 82 to 540 members under her lead, received the award in Rome during the World Food Forum.
VegetablesSophy Litshani Musabeni of Vhegies, which supplies about 235 Shoprite and Checkers stores, won R100,000 to bring a new farm into production and is eyeing baby marrow sales to Germany.
CropsIRRI and CIP held a workshop in Ca Mau on precision nutrient management for rice-shrimp systems, splitting farmers into groups so that women and Khmer growers could say what holds them back.
OpinionIn a Prothom Alo column, researcher Maha Mirza and women's rights activist Marzia Prova write that 17 million women work in Bangladesh's agriculture against 13 million men, yet rural women producers absorb the first shocks of seed, feed, credit and trade-deal decisions.
Ottawa is giving Agricultrices du Québec a further $628,501 under the Women Entrepreneurship Strategy for mentoring, training, financing advice and networks for women in agriculture and forestry.
AgribusinessShobha Shetty of the World Bank-hosted GAFSP told SciDev.Net that digital farm tools only help women when loans, repayment and payment channels fit them, citing a women's potato cooperative in Bangladesh.
WorldA CGIAR GENDER Accelerator report says women in low-income countries risk falling further behind as fuel, fertilizer, climate and trade shocks hit food systems, and sets out measures to close the gap by 2050.
CropsOnce a day labourer with no say over her family's 12 acres, Sunita Nehare of Pachod in Maharashtra now runs the farm, raising cotton yields from about 1 quintal an acre to 7.14 with soil and water conservation.
FAO named 100 Women Heroes in Agrifood Systems and Rural Development from 609 nominations, completing the list with Yin Yuzhen, who helped restore nearly 5,000 hectares of desert land in China.
HealthUniversity of Saskatchewan researchers found that a work week's exposure to farm endotoxins and the herbicide glyphosate caused fluid build-up and thickened air sacs in the lungs of female animal models, more so in combination, and they urge farm workers to wear N95 masks.
AgribusinessThe State of the FPO Sector 2026 report finds 91% of producer companies thinly capitalised, women-led groups short of credit, and calls for restoring a lapsed tax exemption and building federations.
AgrotechA study in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems finds that in Ghana's Ashanti and Bono regions younger men use smartphones and online farm advice, while older women rely on basic phones, radio and voice services because of literacy, language, cost and social norms.
LivestockMore than 90 women who raise livestock met in Kathmandu for the first Global Gathering of Pastoralist Women and drafted a declaration on their rights, land and voice; a Saskatchewan rancher who attended describes what she learned.
