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
In the fall of 2023, a group of Iowa land stewards began meeting to track changes in their local environments over the course of one year. This Stories of the Seasons cohort comes from a diverse background of land stewardship experiences and has connections to many corners of Iowa. Participants throughout the state are comparing their noticings of seasonal markers like bird migrations, bloom times, and much more. From these observations, the Stories of the Seasons cohort will build an Iowa ecological calendar that weaves together data, personal observations, and artworks.
