{"id":4727,"date":"2025-10-29T15:51:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/news\/american-bar-association-honors-hannah-haksgaard-for-her-book-the-rural-lawyer-copy\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T16:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T16:45:08","slug":"women-and-smallholder-farming","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/news\/women-and-smallholder-farming\/","title":{"rendered":"Former RSS President Carolyn Sachs Co-edits Volume on Women and Smallholder Farming"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4727\" data-postid=\"4727\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4727 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_zudh905 tb_first tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_m4ob902 first\">\n                    <!-- module fancy heading -->\n<div  class=\"module module-fancy-heading tb_ibsz555 \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <h1 class=\"fancy-heading\">\n    <span class=\"main-head tf_block\">\n                    Former RSS President Carolyn Sachs Co-edits Volume on Women and Smallholder Farming            <\/span>\n\n    \n    <span class=\"sub-head tf_block tf_rel\">\n                                <\/span>\n    <\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module fancy heading -->\n<!-- Breadcrumbs module -->\n<div  class=\"module module-breadcrumbs tb_soxx329 \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n\t<nav role=\"navigation\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumbs\" class=\"tbp_breadcrumb_trail\"><ul class=\"tbp_trail_items\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/BreadcrumbList\"><meta name=\"numberOfItems\" content=\"1\" \/><meta name=\"itemListOrder\" content=\"Ascending\" \/><li itemprop=\"itemListElement\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ListItem\" class=\"tbp_trail_item tbp_trail_end\"><a itemprop=\"item\" href=\"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/\" rel=\"home\"><span itemprop=\"name\">Home<\/span><\/a><meta itemprop=\"position\" content=\"1\" \/><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div><!-- \/Breadcrumbs module -->\n<!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_6f2n033   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <p>Book title: Women and smallholder farming: Addressing global inequities in agriculture<br>Edited by: RSS Member Professor Emerita <strong>Carolyn Sachs<\/strong>, Pennsylvania State University, USA and Dr Paige Castellanos, Oxfam America (OUS), USA<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 135%;\">There are an estimated 500 million smallholder farmers across the world, of which a considerable percentage are women. Despite their large numbers and important roles, women smallholders remain largely unsupported and their contribution to agriculture is often devalued because of their sex.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 135%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 135%;\">Women and smallholder farming: Addressing global inequities in agriculture provides a comprehensive overview of the main obstacles and challenges women smallholders continue to face, such as restricted access to markets and education, as well as a lack of control over assets and property rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 135%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 135%;\">The book also assesses the impact of sociocultural factors on women smallholder farmers in different regions around the world, including Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. In highlighting these issues, the book considers how key stakeholders across the agri-food supply chain can support, empower and sufficiently compensate women smallholder farmers for their contribution to agriculture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>*Special Offer*<br>Enter code WOMEN20 at checkout via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bdspublishing.com\">www.bdspublishing.com<\/a> to redeem 20% of your purchase of the book. Discount code expires 31st December 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"671\" data-end=\"993\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bdspublishing.com\/webshop\/books\/agricultural-science-series\/crops\/agri-food-systems\/supporting-smallholders\/women-and-smallholder-farming\/\">\ud83d\udd17 Read the book<\/a><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new book which provides a comprehensive overview of the main obstacles and challenges women smallholders face has just been published. <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bdspublishing.com\/webshop\/books\/agricultural-science-series\/crops\/agri-food-systems\/supporting-smallholders\/women-and-smallholder-farming\/\">\ud83d\udd17 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4729,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","news_announcements":[30,25,43,34,36,39],"class_list":["post-4727","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_announcements-gender-and-sexualities","news_announcements-member-in-the-news","news_announcements-rural-law-and-justice","news_announcements-rural-policy","news_announcements-rural-race-and-ethnicity","news_announcements-sociology-of-agriculture-food-safrig","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"ptb_metabox":[],"ptb_taxonomy":{"news_announcements":[{"term_id":30,"name":"Gender and Sexualities","slug":"gender-and-sexualities","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":30,"taxonomy":"news_announcements","description":"","parent":26,"count":3,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":25,"name":"Member in the News","slug":"member-in-the-news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":25,"taxonomy":"news_announcements","description":"","parent":0,"count":45,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":43,"name":"Rural Law and Justice","slug":"rural-law-and-justice","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":43,"taxonomy":"news_announcements","description":"","parent":26,"count":15,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":34,"name":"Rural Policy","slug":"rural-policy","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":34,"taxonomy":"news_announcements","description":"","parent":26,"count":11,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":36,"name":"Rural Race and Ethnicity","slug":"rural-race-and-ethnicity","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":36,"taxonomy":"news_announcements","description":"","parent":26,"count":4,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":39,"name":"Sociology of Agriculture &amp; Food (SAFRIG)","slug":"sociology-of-agriculture-food-safrig","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":39,"taxonomy":"news_announcements","description":"","parent":26,"count":8,"filter":"raw"}]},"ptb_featured_image":{"url":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/9781801468053-scaled-1.jpg","title":"9781801468053-scaled","caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/4727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_announcements","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_announcements?post=4727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}