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Report: The changing face of agriculture: “focusing on gender, youth and technology”
The EU’s agriculture sector is facing pressing challenges among which gender and age gaps are critical. The challenge of attracting more young people and more females to the agriculture sector in particular is a significant global issue requiring research, investment and strategic action plans to overcome. Two Horizon 2020 projects, DEMETER and SmartAgriHubs (SAH), both...
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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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My experience of conducting a PhD in agriculture
Grainne Dilleen is an Assistant Lecturer in Digital Marketing, South East Technological University, Ireland, and worked as Communication and Dissemination manager for DEMETER. Photo caption: Cheryl Baldwin and Grainne Dilleen at the 2021 .eu Web Awards My PhD journey started in South East Technological University, Ireland in late 2019, funded by the DEMETER project. It...
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A review of The Changing Face of Agriculture event
Introduction On February 17th, DEMETER and SmartAgriHubs joined forces to host an event titled ‘The Changing Face of Agriculture – discussing youth, gender and digitalisation in agriculture. Significant conclusions related to the age, gender, pay and education gap in agriculture can be extracted from the data gathered on the “Agriculture, forestry and fishery statistics —...
