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Gender Gap in Funding
In the last decade or so, we have been hearing and reading more about the gender gap in funding. On last year’s International Women’s Day, dealroom reported, in those 10 weeks of 2022, that all-women founding teams had secured just 0.4% of European venture capital, while mixed-gender founding teams had raised 15.2% of the capital....
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Farmer Interview: Valeria Ruggeri, Italy
Valeria Ruggeri manages a livestock farm with her husband. They produce raw milk from about 2200 cattle and cultivate 300 hectares of land to produce feed for their animals. A farm that, despite its intensive management, made sustainability and cow-comfort a must for its business. Valeria has a law degree but is completely engaged in...
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Farmer Interview: Agustina Diaz Valdez, Argentina
WFO Gymnasium Alumna, woman farmer and veterinarian, Agustina is the former President of the Ateneo Sociedad Rural Argentina, the young farmers’ organisation of the WFO member organisation Sociedad Rural Argentina. CAN YOU INTRODUCE YOURSELF AND TELL US ABOUT YOUR FARM? I‘m Agustina, from Argentina. I was born in the south of my country in Rio...
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Interview: Maria Rita Palattella, Senior Researcher LIST, Luxembourg
We spoke with Maria Rita Palattella about her work in the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, the HEMS pilot, and the barriers and drivers for farmers adopting digital technologies. CAN YOU TELL US A BIT ABOUT YOUR ORGANISATION AND YOUR INVOLVEMENT IN THE OPEN CALL 2 (OC2) PILOT FUNDED UNDER THE DEMETER PROJECT. The...
