Sowing stories, cultivating equality
Ada Navarro Puche, Spain
"Connecting to life: A journey of reconnection with our inner nature"
Anna Sperling, Italy
"Counting sheep but still no sleep"
Audia Willie, Jamaica
"Roots of resilience: How a friend's orchid, arriving six months after a baby was lost, grew into a women's cooperative in Saint James"
Bernice Chase, Barbados
"Let our medicine be our food: A family farmer’s call"
Beryl Oletha Seaton, Saint Kitts and Nevis
"My hands still know the soil: A woman farmer’s journey of resilience"
Binita Lamichhane Sharma, Nepal
"Harvesting tea and uplifting communities in the Nepalese hillside: The story of women tea pluckers, a tea technician, a cooperative and the woman who rose to lead them"
Charity Mueni Ndivo, Kenya
"The seed bank of bottles and gourds: How a Kenyan farmer saved her grandmother's indigenous seeds"
Florence Adejole, Nigeria
"The brittle stems: How a childhood spent among failing gardens led one woman into crop science"
Irene Mamani, Plurinational State of Bolivia
"The world that Juana invented: An Aymara farmer who could not read built her own ways of knowing in the Andean mountains"
Maheen Riaz, Pakistan
"From silence to voice: How banana peels, soured milk and curiosity grew a young Pakistani woman's confidence"
Melanie Joyce Nabukwasi, Uganda
"The difference is small, but I can see it: How one farmer's careful coffee cherries changed a whole women's network on Mount Elgon"
Monica Mwaba Nkolola, Zambia
"Under the mango tree: Losing my job, finding farming and reviving a village’s idle land"
Sarah Nakame, Uganda
"The rainbow plate: From wild jackfruit to a blue plastic plate, a Ugandan woman's fight for what children eat"
FAO feature and in-depth stories
Spotlight stories
The tree had the answer
How one Pakistani cotton farmer replaced chemical pesticides with a homemade bio-pesticide, and taught her neighbours to do the same.
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Women cultivating the future in Latin America and the Caribbean
Within the framework of the International Year of the Woman Farmer 2026, five life stories show how women from different territories across the region are agents of agrifood systems transformation.
She Has a Story to Tell: Heifer International
Women farmers already have the wisdom, ingenuity and lived experience to lead food systems change. These stories show why the world needs to listen.
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Celebrating the Women Who Feed the World
This edition of «News From the Field» celebrates the International Year of Women Farmers 2026 by highlighting the work of four partners of the Grameen Credit Agricole Foundation.
Nyirahabimana Vestine, Rwanda
A JPRWEE story | Building prosperity through smarter farming and financial planning
Akimana Angelique, Rwanda
A JPRWEE story | Stronger together: Akimana Angelique’s story of growth and leadership through collective action
Sowing Stories, Cultivating Equality
Lending her pen to her mother, Irene tells the story of an Aymara woman denied schooling who, consequently, never learned to read.
Salima, Tajikistan
Salima is turning agricultural training into opportunity for herself, her family and other rural women
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María Martínez, Honduras
A FAO program focused on empowering rural women and promoting environmental sustainability in Guajiquiro, ensures women’s participation from the outset in defining the actions to be implemented.
Manal El Qadi, Egypt
“I started to love the land and give it my all,” Manal says, reflecting on her Farmer Field School experience.
Cotton Sector, China
In 2022, Lifang joined a local project of the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI).
Women farmers portraits
This portrait series titled “Women Farmers. Caring for people and planet. Sustaining land, water, and biodiversity” brings to life the stories of 11 women.