Female Farmers

On Friday, I posted about an op-ed written by Secretary Clinton about food security, at which there was pleasant surprise expressed at her use of "she" to describe a hypothetical farmer.

QLH: I loved reading this: "Consider the world's typical small farmer. She..." SHE. Such a small word, such a powerful one.

Liss: Indeed. And as the article later notes, women "are the majority of the world's farmers," so it is not only a small word and a powerful word, but the most appropriate one.

Deeky: Wow. How strange it is that when the image of farmers is presented it is almost exclusively men.

And so, here's a little teaspoon, on behalf of the world's female farmers, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe...


Afghanistan


Albania


Australia


Austria


Benin


Bolivia


Bosnia


Brazil


Burundi


California


Cambodia


Chad


Chile


China


China


Dominican Republic


Ecuador


Egypt


England


Ethiopia


France (spray-painting on her cows "On strike!")


Gaza


Germany (a dairy farmer protesting milk prices)


Ghana


Greece


Guatemala


Idaho


India (members of a women's farming collective)


India


Indonesia


Iraq


Ireland


Israel


Italy


Jamaica


Japan


Jordan


Kashmir


Kazakhstan


Kenya


Laos


Malawi


Maryland


Massachusetts


Mauritania


Mexico


Mongolia


Morocco


Mozambique


Myanmar


Myanmar


Namibia


Nepal


New Zealand


North Carolina


Panama


Peru


Philippines


Poland


Portugal


Puerto Rico


Romania


Russia


Rwanda


Scotland


Slovakia


Somaliland


South Korea


Spain


Sri Lanka


Sudan


Switzerland


Taiwan


Tanzania


Thailand


Tibet


Turkey


Uganda


Ukraine


Uzbekistan


Vietnam


Vietnam


Wales


Yemen


Zambia


Zanzibar


Zimbabwe