Women in agriculture around the world: What do we know about their situation and how can we better support them?

Renewed attention is being paid to the contributions, experiences, and challenges of women in agriculture around the world through the United Nations’ declaration that 2026 is the International Year of the Woman Farmer. This attention comes against the backdrop of a substantial body of research that, for decades, has documented the critical roles women play in agriculture, as well as the inequalities that shape their access to resources, opportunities, recognition, and decision-making power. Yet despite this growing knowledge base, women often remain insufficiently visible and often unsupported by agricultural programs and policies. At the same time, emerging research efforts can sometimes overlook earlier scholarship, creating the impression that questions surrounding women in agriculture are only now being explored rather than building on a rich and longstanding field of inquiry.

This webinar organized by the International Association on Work in Agriculture (IAWA) will bring together researchers and practitioners from different regions of the world to examine what we know about the conditions of women in agriculture, where important knowledge gaps remain, and how the existing evidence can already be translated into action. However, as much as women around the world often face similar forms of invisibility and unequal access to resources, the challenges they encounter, and the solutions needed to address them, are shaped by distinct social, cultural, economic, and policy contexts. Our webinar will also engage in a conversation about successful models and key consideration for the adoption of these models in other contexts. As 2026 was also recognized by the United Nations at the International Year of Pastoralists and Rangeland Herders, particular attention will also be given to the women engaged in pastoralism and livestock-based livelihoods.

Panelists to be announced soon !

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