…and produce 60-80% of the world’s food supply in Asia and Africa. Yet these same women–who also bear the children, tend the children, haul the water and wood and cook the food they grow–share few if any of the benefits and incentives their male counterparts receive.
Women are now 52% of the population on the planet. Our power base is expanding. And those women are growing stronger, more vocal and more political every day.
This International Women’s Day, I invite you to join my Pulsewire group to acknowledge the most valiant, creative, irrepressible, amazing and productive women from around the world who plant grains and vegetables with one hand and hold the tattered remnants of their families and community together with the other. Please join me at Outrageous Gardeners Worldwide with your stories, or links or suggestions.
Women have always been the backbone of community because we create community through our children, our often unacknowledged but essential wisdom and our tireless seeking after ways to improve life not just for ourselves but for our children. Take time today to consider the women you know and their contribution not just to your life but to others and see how wide a circle of influence they create in the many small, quiet and enduring acts of power.
“Empowering female farmers worldwide is important to ending world hunger and enhancing the quality of life among rural populations,” Canadian Federation of Agriculture President, Bob Friesen.
You are doing great work Yvonne, and I love that you got a video embedded! I’m going to start my very first ever container garden on my deck this spring. Can you help find me a container? We get lots of hail, so I’d love something covered…?