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Saugeres, Lise. 2002. Of tractors and men: Masculinity, technology, and power in a French farming community. Sociologia Ruralis 42 (2): 143–159. Sage, Jeremy L., and Jessica R. Goldberger. 2012. Decisions to direct market: Geographic influences on conventions in organic production. Applied Geography 34: 57–65. Learning to farm from scratch has not been straightforward, but you sense that’s a big part of the appeal for Glencross. “There’s all these decisions the farmer makes throughout the year and why he sprays and why he doesn’t,” she says. “You realise that most people get up, sit at a computer all day and if they press the wrong button, they just delete it. When you’re a farmer, you plant at the wrong time of year and tomorrow it washes away your whole crop.”

From coats and waterproofs, to fleeces, hats and versatile work overalls, our collection of farming clothes is your one-stop shop for practical, durable workwear, as well as stylish country fits for on and around the farm. Decarbonisation of energy sources for farm activities: use of renewables for energy intensive activities e.g. water pumping and powering offices.Land is an asset that can be used not only for agricultural production but also as collateral to access credit, government programs that support farmers, even pensions. But to get these opportunities, a land title is required. An OXFAM study in Uttar Pradesh state found that just 4% of female farmers have access to institutional credit. Identify women in the agricultural supply chain: As the testimony in this report shows, identifying the roles women play in specific supply chains and the specific climate related barriers they face can help build more effective and targeted responses. Companies should seek to commission or partner with other key stakeholders to improve data collection processes on women in supply chains and engage directly with women workers, representatives and communities. [footnote 69] [footnote 70] Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) can be defined as “Women having the ability to succeed and advance economically, and the power to make and act on economic decisions to enhance their well-being and position in the society”. [footnote 23] Louisa Cox, Director of Impact at the Fairtrade Foundation said: “It takes two to grow cocoa, it’s a partnership crop that needs both the man and the woman to successfully see it through to harvest. Yet often the woman does two thirds of the work for less than a third of the income, meaning a bitter taste to the sweet treat.

For women, the government-regulated market negotiators were an avenue for bargaining and price discovery that did not require women to physically enter the male-dominated agricultural markets and haggle with traders over crop prices. 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?building capabilities and knowledge through training on climate smart agricultural practices and access to extension services And India’s agriculture problems are severe indeed. Farmers face declining plot sizes, degraded soils, scarce water and rising debt. In the past 25 years, over 300,000 desperate, debt-ridden farmers in the country have committed suicide. Unequal distribution of unpaid care work, agricultural labour and domestic chores exacerbated, e.g. more time spent collecting depleted supplies of water and wood

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. 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 ↩We would like to extend our sincere thanks to the hundreds of women smallholders and workers who participated in the research. Their voices are central to the findings in this consolidated report. jobs, but are not recognized as such because they seldom own the farm,” according to the Indian development economist Bina Agarwal. Some of the world’s largest International finance institutions, including the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the European Investment Bank and British Investment International have collaborated to produce detailed guidance to enable investors to identify and support gender and climate smart opportunities across multiple sectors from transport to forestry. [footnote 72] At the conclusion of the Gender Smart Investment Summit this year, there was a call to action to truly integrate gender – in all its complexities – across the value chain, leaving it transformed in the process. Ruby Radwan, with her daughter Asiyla and son Ali: ‘It took about seven or eight years before we realised we could do this more seriously and make a business of it.’ Photograph: Adrian Sherratt/The Observer

Furthermore, it is possible to enable women to be economically empowered while simultaneously reducing emissions. As seen for example in the Primark Sustainable Cotton Programme in India, a three-year training programme covering sustainable farming techniques from seed selection, sowing, soil, water, pesticide and pest management. The programme resulted in female farmers using 40% less fertiliser and 44% less pesticide (both established contributors to carbon emissions) and 10% less water, when compared to a group of control farmers. They also experienced an increase in profit from cotton that was almost 200% greater than that of the control farmers. [footnote 19]Miro Forestry is a sustainable forestry and timber business with plantations in Ghana and Sierra Leone. While the majority of jobs are currently on plantations, as the business expands, most new jobs will be in harvesting and processing. British International Investment (formerly CDC) supported Miro Forestry to perform a gender workforce diagnostic and adopt a gender action plan. The diagnostic revealed key opportunities for Miro, which led the company to set a target to increase the number of women in the workforce from 26% to 40% over the next two years. Miro has also introduced a series of specific initiatives to advance women’s employment and leadership, including mentorship and upskilling. [footnote 64] Examples of relevant responses that could support women and climate change: assets The Village Based Advisor Model is a self-financing approach that can enhance women farmers knowledge and link them to input and output markets The war had a positive impact on attitudes towards women in farming. The National Farmers’ Union, which started in 1908, was openly critical of women working on the land at the beginning of the war, but praised their contribution highly afterwards. Alternatives to air freight e.g. sea freight. Also opportunities to collaborate, learn, and scale impact through partnerships (e.g. the Sustainable Air Freight Alliance). Pilgeram, Ryanne, and Bryan Amos. 2015. Beyond “inherit it or marry it”: Exploring how women engaged in sustainable agriculture access farmland. Rural Sociology 80 (1): 16–38.