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New Fairtrade research reveals a large group of women are being left behind by the chocolate industry This report clearly indicates two scenarios. One scenario is full of risk. Women farmers are quite literally ‘risking everything’ as they face the disproportionate impacts of climate change. Increasingly unpredictable incomes are causing stress within families and putting women at risk of gender- based violence. Women’s health is at risk due to working in extreme temperatures and due to malnutrition from unpredictable food supplies. Ever greater amounts of time are being spent on unpaid care and domestic tasks as women walk further to collect depleted forests and water supplies. All these factors also limit the time and money women have available to adopt climate mitigation and adaptation strategies. A negative reinforcing cycle of risk reduces women’s incomes, stalls empowerment and decreases soil health and yields. This scenario also puts supply chains at risk and decreases the chances of effective decarbonisation plans.

Farm Service Agency. 2022. Minority and women farmers and ranchers. Retrieved 4.29.22 from https://www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/farm-loan-programs/minority-and-women-farmers-and-ranchers/index Trauger, Amy. 2004. ‘Because they can do the work’: Women farmers in sustainable agriculture in Pennsylvania, USA. Gender, Place & Culture 11 (2): 289–307. Heritage grains can be harder to produce in vast quantities – einkorn, especially, is “a bitch to harvest” – but they do have advantages over conventional wheats. They typically have deep roots and grow tall, which means they shade out weeds and do not require chemical sprays. The end product is more nutritious and then there’s the taste. Since 2017, Glencross has run a roving supper club called the Sustainable Food Story with Sadhbh Moore, and Duchess Farms has worked closely with bakeries such as E5 Bakehouse in east London and Gail’s, and restaurants including Doug McMaster’s Silo. “Heritage grains are delicious: when you stop growing for yield and you start growing for quality the flavour is insane,” says Glencross.This cookie is set by Addthis. This is a geolocation cookie to understand where the users sharing the information are located. Indian farmers leave a protest in February 2021. Muzamil Mattoo/NurPhoto via Getty Images Invisible, unpaid labor force Climate change can lead to women not being able to work due to weather conditions, lower levels of agricultural productivity due to changing temperatures and pests and diseases and being laid off from work e.g. due to floods, meaning incomes are reduced. This impacts women disproportionately in countries/regions where women are mostly employed in the agriculture sectors. This has caused some women to fall into debt and can prevent families from sending children to school. An 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

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/980198/Guidance3-Women–Net-Zero-Economy-Briefing1.pdf ↩ During the pandemic, for example, Joseph said women farmers filled “the gaps in local communities for food access”. Radical Family Farm stepped in to feed food-insecure seniors throughout the Bay Area when it was not safe for them to go to the grocery store or farmers’ market.

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Hall, Alan, and Veronika Mogyorody. 2007. Organic farming, gender, and the labor process. Rural Sociology 72 (2): 289–316. Increasing sales to the domestic market. Stakeholders interviewed in the study reported a growing middle class with an interest in ethical products and cited growth of the Fairtrade domestic market in Kenya. Pilgeram, Ryanne, Katherine Dentzman, Paul Lewin, and Kelsey Conley. 2020. How the USDA changed the way women farmers are counted in the census of agriculture. Choices 35 (1): 1–10.

CARE. (2019). GenderTransformative Adaptation: From Good Practice to Better Policy. Retrieved from https://insights.careinternational.org.uk/media/k2/attachments/CARE_Gender-Transformative-Adaptation_2019.pdf ↩We call on the UK Government and chocolate companies to join the Alliance on Living Incomes in Cocoa, a new international initiative 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 ↩

http://www.agrilinks.org/post/how-female-agro-agents-can-help-input-distributors-better-respond-community-needs ↩ It is part of my cultural heritage to honor our elders,” she said, adding that her grandparents on both sides took care of her growing up, so delivering “culturally relevant produce” to seniors is meaningful. “Instead of getting bags of potatoes, they can get vegetables, produce and herbs that are familiar to them.” Reduction in emissions for in-farm transport: elimination of the use of diesel and petrol for in-farm transports. Within the Kenyan context, alternatives such as biofuels and electric vehicles remain limited to date. Monica, White. 2012. Sisters of the soil: Urban gardening as resistance in Detroit. Race/Ethnicity Multidisciplinary Global Contexts 5 (1): 13–28. Ball, Jennifer A. 2020. Women farmers in developed countries: A literature overview. Agriculture and Human Values 37: 147–160.

Improved fertiliser management: use of organic products as an alternative input for fertilisers (e.g. microbes, animal waste, plant waste or other natural resources); use of low-carbon synthetic fertilisers; use of natural pesticide measures. I do not talk when my husband and other male members discuss about land or other things. Even if I say anything, they will ignore, and will rather rebuke me for talking between them as I am not expected to do so. So, it is better to keep shut. Women spend more time looking for water. Sometimes we have to wake up at 4 am to beat the long queues at the water holes and even then we will still have to wait for over an hour to get water…