Tag: Truthout

  • Women Break Through the “Grass Ceiling”

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    Eleanor Bader celebrates women’s leading role in the sustainable and organic agriculture sector: According to the US Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service, the number of women-operated farms more than doubled in the 25 years between 1982 and 2007. In fact, female farmers now make up the fastest-growing sector of the country’s changing agricultural landscape…