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Photo exhibition “Daughters of the Soil”
Annabel is one of the farmers photographed for the exhibition ‘Daughters of the Soil”. It features interviews and portraits of women in agriculture in the UK.
EU Prize for Women Innovators
The ninth edition of the EU Prize for Women Innovators closed on Thursday 18 August, with 277 applications submitted, higher than any previous edition.
Women entrepreneurs in the agrifood sector
“Entrepreneurship is a key driver of innovation and growth across society” (2020 study commissioned by the European Union). Europe is steadily moving in this direction, however women remain underrepresented and underfunded in this process.
AgROBOfood putting women in the spotlight
AgROBOfood is an EU funded project to boost the adoption of robotics in the European agri-food sector.
Forests in Women’s Hands- Conference
Re-watch the recordings of the 2021 edition of the International Conference on Women in Forestry.
Fem4Forest - Empowering women in forestry
Fem4Forest Interreg project was set up to spread innovative approaches and multi-actor interactions to increase womens’ skills in forestry and support their entrance into the labour market.
SmartAgriHubs Gender Taskforce: Investing in gender and rural women
SmartAgriHubs, Horizon 2020 project, is all about ‘digitisation of European agriculture by fostering an agricultural innovation ecosystem dedicated to excellence, sustainability and success.’
VIDEO: AGRI challenge: young entrepreneurs
Ricardo Soares, a Portuguese apple and pear grower, is a young rural entrepreneur. He has brought many innovations to his farmer colleagues. As a young farmer, he also encountered some obstacles and found some solutions to overcome them. Watch the video here.
Rural women – inspiration from the EIP-AGRI network
From inspirational initiatives, Operational Groups, Horizon projects, videos, articles and more, take a look here for examples from the EIP-AGRI network of rural women who are at the forefront of agricultural innovation, including projects and initiatives empowering rural women.
Videos from women in the LIVERUR project
LIVERUR was a Horizon 2020 project to support businesses, projects and initiatives in designing innovative business models in rural areas, moving towards a Circular Economy and including all important stakeholders by following the Living Lab approach.