キャメロン・ラッセルのインスタグラム(cameronrussell) - 4月6日 10時57分

WOMEN! Perhaps the most powerful observation here is that women are doing nearly all of the agricultural work. Even though I’ve read that 60-80% of subsistence farming is done by women – making women the most powerful stewards of the land – seeing them in person alerts me to the deeply rooted stereotypes I have about who does manual labor. We have been speaking to women famers, union leaders, and pickers and they are fiercely committed to sustainability.

At the @RainforestAlliance farmer training, the majority of the class is women. After a single session, Giri Kadurugamuwa tells me, these women will change their farming practices. They haven’t heard of herbicide free weed management and are eager to have its benefits (yield is 20%+ higher, there is no need to expand further into the rainforest, and no need for chemical herbicides that cause kidney disease and cancer, pollute waterways, and harm biodiversity.)

As we saw on Sumanawathi Wegedara’s farm, women are modeling small-scale solutions with large impacts. It is women who will find ways to survive, to be resilient, and to lead. When we are thinking about a way forward we must think about investing in women everywhere because it is women who have the power to sustain life, culture, nature, and our future.

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