Iowa Women in Agriculture Advancing Climate Resilience
AFT’s Women for the Land national initiative is engaged in a three-year collaboration with the Women Food and Agriculture Network and Iowa State University to understand how women farmers and landowners in Iowa are coping with climate change and to develop peer-to-peer programming to support Iowa women in agriculture to become more climate resilient. Through listening sessions, peer-to-peer Learning Circles, action planning, and storytelling, this project will help advance a network of women farmers and landowners across Iowa working to adapt to and mitigate climate change-related impacts on their farms.
Profiles of Women in Iowa Agriculture
The following stories of Iowa women in agriculture highlight the ways that Iowa farmers and landowners are navigating weather and climate change-related challenges and what they are doing to cope, stay inspired, and support each other. They are snapshots of stories happening throughout the state.
It’s a few small squares or rectangles on the map among the many rectangles you see when you fly over, as most people do. My square is a part of that factory, but each part makes a difference, so if you try to do right by your part, that’s what you can do. If everyone does their part in their sphere of influence, we get there at scale. And being a part of groups like this can help expand that sphere of influence. – Palma Strand
