🕯 Our household in the rural Victorian electorate of Indi, are sharing prayers tonight and tomorrow with Helen Haines MP.
Our Honourable, much loved leader, our Federal Member of Parliament. Love to her family and friends.
🕯🧡 #Indi #auspol
#WomeninPolitics #RuralWomen #KindnessMatters #Independent
#ruralwomen — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ruralwomen, aggregated by home.social.
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Celebrate the critical roles and contributions of rural women with Greener Pastures for International Day of Rural Women. Greener Pastures provides an intimate window into the lives of four multigenerational farming families, introducing viewers to Becky Higgins, Melissa Simeral, and Juliette "Julie" Albrecht. 1/5
https://journeysinfilm.org/film/greener-pastures/
#InternationalDayOfRuralWomen #RuralWomen #WomenWhoFarm #FarmLife #RuralLife #Education #Teachers #Midwest #USA #Farming #Agriculture #Movies #Homeschooling
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Celebrate the critical roles and contributions of rural women with Greener Pastures for International Day of Rural Women. Greener Pastures provides an intimate window into the lives of four multigenerational farming families, introducing viewers to Becky Higgins, Melissa Simeral, and Juliette "Julie" Albrecht. 1/5
https://journeysinfilm.org/film/greener-pastures/
#InternationalDayOfRuralWomen #RuralWomen #WomenWhoFarm #FarmLife #RuralLife #Education #Teachers #Midwest #USA #Farming #Agriculture #Movies #Homeschooling
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Rural women lead efforts to restore mangrove forests
TEHRAN – Rural women in southern Hormozgan Province are taking an active role in restoring mangrove forests and…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Tehran #Iran #mangroveforests #ruralwomen
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/320999/ Rural women lead efforts to restore mangrove forests #Iran #MangroveForests #RuralWomen #Tehran
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Nicki Guttler rewrites record books to win two open shearing titles
A few months ago, Nicki Guttler could not even put on her socks. Now the 32-year-old may well…
#NewsBeep #News #Sports #Agriculture #AU #Australia #nikkiguttler #Ruralwomen #shearer #shearing #sheep #sportshearingnsw #sports #sportsshearnswnsw #sportsshearing
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/268699/ Zimbabwean Police Crackdown Threatens Rural Women’s Livelihoods with E-Tricycle Confiscations | Ratopati #Africa #agriculture #chipinge #confiscation #ETricycle #EconomicEmpowerment #fines #Hauna #License #livelihood #mobility #PoliceCrackdown #Registration #RuralWomen #transport #zimbabwe
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State-Led Drone Deployment: Discrepancies in Expenditure and Operational Reality
Why has the Indian government spent nothing on the Namo Drone Didi scheme despite sending 1,094 drones? Find out who is affected and what happens next.
#NamoDroneDidi, #IndiaDrones, #RuralWomen, #SchemeUpdate, #AgriTech
https://newsletter.tf/india-namo-drone-didi-scheme-zero-spending-drones/
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India has sent 1,094 drones for its Namo Drone Didi scheme, but reports show zero spending. This is a big difference between sending equipment and paying for it.
#NamoDroneDidi, #IndiaDrones, #RuralWomen, #SchemeUpdate, #AgriTech
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India's Women: Mental Health Disparities Between Cities and Villages
Why do women in Indian villages get less mental health help than city women? Find out about the problems and what can be done.
#IndiaMentalHealth, #RuralWomen, #UrbanVsRural, #WomensHealth, #MentalHealthAwareness
https://newsletter.tf/india-women-mental-health-rural-vs-urban-disparities/
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Women in Indian villages face bigger problems getting mental health care compared to city women. This gap has been clear since 2024.
#IndiaMentalHealth, #RuralWomen, #UrbanVsRural, #WomensHealth, #MentalHealthAwareness
https://newsletter.tf/india-women-mental-health-rural-vs-urban-disparities/
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The EU-funded GRASS Ceiling project was launched to recognise #ruralwomen as drivers of agricultural change👏
At the core of GRASS Ceiling are community-based Living Labs where women farmers and rural innovators meet with enterprise officers, banks, local authorities and researchers👩🌾💪🏻
https://projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/en/projects/success-stories/all/cutting-path-through-european-agricultures-grass-ceiling -
https://www.europesays.com/2555919/ UN photographer Martine Perret turns lens on women of Australia’s hinterland #australia #MartinePerret #midwest #photography #RuralWomen #un #UnitedNations #WaNews #WomanOfTheHinterland
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@PNUDLAC
Hoy es el Día Internacional de la Mujer Rural
#RuralWomen y las niñas están en la primera línea de la crisis climática: alimentando a las familias, protegiendo la biodiversidad y liderando la resiliencia.
@BahaiBIC #Bahai #Mexicali #FelizMiércoles #news
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Celebrate the critical roles and contributions of rural women with Greener Pastures for International Day of Rural Women. Greener Pastures provides an intimate window into the lives of four multigenerational farming families, introducing viewers to Becky Higgins, Melissa Simeral, and Juliette "Julie" Albrecht. 1/5
https://journeysinfilm.org/film/greener-pastures/
#InternationalDayOfRuralWomen #RuralWomen #WomenWhoFarm #FarmLife #RuralLife #Education #Teachers #Midwest #USA #Farming #Agriculture #Movies #Homeschooling
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"The International Day of Rural Women highlights the role of gender equality and women’s empowerment in fighting against extreme poverty, hunger, and malnutrition."
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https://www.europesays.com/2465424/ More women join the labour force, but are they really employed? #business #FemaleLabourForceParticipationRate #InformalWork #jobs #NSSOData #RealEarningsDecline #RuralWomen #SelfEmployment #UnpaidFamilyWork
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More women join the labour force, but are they really employed?
A large share of women’s work takes the form of unpaid household labour, which does not count as…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Jobs #Business #femalelabourforceparticipationrate #Informalwork #NSSOdata #Realearningsdecline #ruralwomen #Self-Employment #Unpaidfamilywork
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/473710/ More women join the labour force, but are they really employed? #Business #FemaleLabourForceParticipationRate #InformalWork #jobs #NSSOData #RealEarningsDecline #RuralWomen #SelfEmployment #UK #UnitedKingdom #UnpaidFamilyWork
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RT by @EU_ENV: Rural women are key agents of change, holding a wealth of knowledge on forest landscapes.
Read more from our recent blog of different #RuralWomen who are using their expertise to play a key role in combating climate change.
https://un-redd.org/post/rural-women-drivers-change-forest-based-climate-action
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started a #wikipedia article on US educator, @USDA official, home economist Florence E. Ward (1871-1934): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_E._Ward @wikiwomeninred @wikidc #Extension #Montessori #RuralWomen
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Happy Tenth Birthday Canadian Food Studies!
#HappyBirthday #TenYearsOld #OpenAccess
FS - The gift of food sovereignty
Annette Desmarais
#FoodSovereignty #LaViaCampesina #Food #Peasants #SmallFarms #RuralWomen #FarmWorkers #SmallScale
#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeathttps://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/115
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Explore the impact of #climatechange on #ruralwomen in #agriculture and their #resilience in the face of extreme #weather events.
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> .. neoliberal years.. rural Nicaragua gave birth at home to “as many children as God would give us.” Today..[with] free universal health care, sexual health education and.. free family planning, maternity rates in Nicaragua have.. dropped to 2.38 per woman.. women are choosing to space their babies five or even 10 years apart.
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-wont-go-back-into-our-cages-celebrating-womens-day-in-nicaragua/
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Food and Agriculture Organization ('FAO) paints a stark picture: #ruralwomen in low- and middle-income countries (#LMICs) are shouldering the brunt of #climatechange’s #economic burden.
https://indianf.com/rural-women-climate-change/#:~:text=Food%20and%20Agriculture%20Organization%20(FAO)%20paints%20a%20stark%20picture%3A%20rural%20women%20in%20low%2D%20and%20middle%2Dincome%20countries%20(LMICs)%20are%20shouldering%20the%20brunt%20of%20climate%20change%E2%80%99s%20economic%20burden. -
#Ruralwomen are the backbone of #agriculture, feeding #families and #communities worldwide. But a silent crisis is unfolding in their fields. #Climatechange is unleashing a wave of extreme #weather events.
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Tash always wanted to be a helicopter musterer, but a flippant comment nearly derailed that dream
By Lily McCureMustering stock, navigating the vast landscapes of outback Australia and directing "ground crew'" from above is all in a day's work for Natasha "Tash" Greenshields. But not too long ago, she thought it was out of her reach.
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'It was hot and dusty, everyone was sweating': Why this photo captures the true 'essence' of farm life
By Ondine Slack-SmithLooking through a lens allows photographer Jemma Luelf to capture the heart and soul of life on the land.
#Photography #Art #RuralWomen #RuralYouth #Rural #RegionalCommunities #OndineSlackSmith
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Hundreds of grape growers being paid 1970s rates at breaking point in Australia's largest wine region
By Eliza Berlage and James WakelinGrowers in South Australia's Riverland will gather at a crisis meeting as warm inland wine regions are pushed to breaking point by 1970s prices for their grapes.
#Viticulture #BusinessandIndustryRegulation #RegionalCommunities #Rural #RuralWomen #MentalHealth #MentalWellbeing #ElizaBerlage #JamesWakelin
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Country Women's Association branch saved by 23-year-old a 'model' to help others in Western Australia
By Andrew ChoundingBonnie Telfer may not seem like a quintessential CWA deputy president, but the 23-year-old single-handedly saved her town's branch from closure after membership in Darkan fell to single digits.
#SheepProduction #CommunityOrganisations #CommunityDevelopment #RuralWomen #WomenInAgriculture #AndrewChounding
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Neu online: AfA-Working Paper zur Bedeutung der Frauen auf den Bauernhöfen im 19./20. Jh.: https://histoirerurale.ch/pdfs/AfA-Working_Paper_09.pdf
#agricultrices #paysannes
#WomensHistoryMonth
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Ihre Spende zur Produktion eines Videoessays über die erste vegane Bäuerin wird vom Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung SNF verdoppelt:
https://wemakeit.com/projects/the-first-vegan-farmer?locale=de
https://wemakeit.com/channels/science
#ruralhistory #archivCH #agricultrices #paysannes #ruralwomen
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Among the grain crops of northern NSW, there's a boom of farming mums planting fields of flowers
By Lara WebsterTamworth mum Shona Robilliard started with a few seeds in her veggie patch, but in search of a better work-life balance she's ditched the vegetables and is now a fully fledged cut-flower farmer.
#Flowers #RuralWomen #SustainableandAlternativeFarming #Gardening #People #Women #LaraWebster
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In abandoned farmhouses, Heather sees light, life and beauty
By Jodie HamiltonInspired by a 20-year Chernobyl photography project, Heather Petty captures images of derelict houses on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula.
#Photography #RuralWomen #RegionalCommunities #EnvironmentalImpact #FarmLabour #JodieHamilton
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In abandoned farmhouses, Heather sees light, life and beauty
By Jodie HamiltonInspired by a 20-year Chernobyl photography project, Heather Petty captures images of derelict houses on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula.
#Photography #RuralWomen #RegionalCommunities #EnvironmentalImpact #FarmLabour #JodieHamilton
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RT by @EUPublications: Women play a vital economic & social role, also in rural areas. Their contribution to the economy needs to be better known.
This study describes their situation across the EU and highlights truly inspiring examples: https://europa.eu/!WMpNWH
#IDRW2023 Day of #RuralWomen🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/HardemanHildeML/status/1713476568524423319#m
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Two new Video Essays are now online in our series Vdeo Essays in Rural History: https://ruralfilms.eu/ruralfilms/video-essays/
#HumanAnimalStudies #archivCH #histCH #SwissHistory
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When Swiss farmers visited the US in the 19c, they were fascinated by the way hay was unloaded there and began to import the "American ideal". See the Videoessay https://ruralfilms.eu/ruralfilms/video-essays/walter-schmids-atlantic-crossing/ or read: https://histoirerurale.ch/pdfs/Auderset_Moser_Exploring.pdf
#foodhistory #ruralwomen
@NiCHE_Canada
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We are pleased to announce that more than 1‘000 films from 23 institutions in 9 European countries are now accessible on the ARH/ERHFA Portal: https://ruralfilms.eu/filmdatabaseOnline/index.php?function=show_static_page&id_static_page=1
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RT @eucapnetwork: #RuralWomen face many challenges👩🌾
Access to jobs, services and infrastructure or lack of representation in decision-making processes are some of them.
👉📗Learn more in the Highlights report of our #RuralWomen workshop.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUAgri/status/1616385121636040706
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RT @StphaniT: #AgriOutlook panel on #FoodSecurity
.@cmfrick from @WFP said that we can feed a 10bn population in a sustainable way if we transform our #FoodSystems
➡️addressing inefficiencies such as food waste & post-harvests losses
➡️diversifying food sources
➡️boosting #RuralWomen's role🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUAgri/status/1600806323012382721
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Researchers to trial tiny device that could revolutionise pre-clampsia diagnosis in pregnancy https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-02/trials-to-begin-in-adelaide-for-new-preeclampsia-test/101703642 #news #PregnancyandChildbirth #MedicalResearch #WomensHealth #RuralWomen #Family #Rural
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'We cannot put children's lives at risk': Human rights advocate questions court priorities A children's welfare advocate says "the best interests of children should prevail, but I don't think that's happening in our courts". https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-10/human-rights-advocate-questions-wa-court-bail-priorities/12868166 #Indigenous(AboriginalandTorresStraitIslander) #Law,CrimeandJustice #CommunityandSociety #IndigenousPolicy #CourtsandTrials #Women'sHealth #RuralWomen #ChildAbuse
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The rural shire where only one female voice will be heard on council in a 16-year streak Community leader Karen Foster is the only woman in the newly elected Moyne Shire Council, and she says she feels the weight of that responsibility. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-06/karen-foster-only-woman-on-moyne-shire-council/12855432 #GovernmentandPolitics #GenderRoles #RuralWomen #Women
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People are 'dying of malnutrition' in this rural centre Queensland's Gemfields is known for precious stones, but beneath the promise of striking it rich its aging population struggles to access fresh, nutritious food, and eat "chips and dips" to survive. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-27/gemfields-emerald-central-qld-food-security-malnutrition-health/12802246 #DietandNutrition #Mining(Rural) #RuralWomen #Regional #Poverty
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Karla's job isn't for the faint-hearted but that's exactly why she is the perfect employee Droving in 30-plus degree temperatures, every day for three months at a time, is far from an easy day's work, but there’s an increasing number of people seeking employment in the profession. https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2020-10-15/jobs-in-agriculture-as-more-women-going-droving/12725628 #WomenInAgriculture #RuralWomen #BeefCattle #Livestock
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Child care, domestic violence and science jobs: What's in the budget for women, and what didn't make the cut? This year's Federal Budget has no increase to childcare funding but a renewed focus on science and technology opportunities. Here's what you need to know. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-07/whats-in-the-2020-federal-budget-for-women/12685686 #GovernmentandPolitics #CommunityandSociety #Women'sHealth #RuralWomen #Health #Budget #Women #Rural
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CWA promotes new recipes with less sugar The CWA promotes its healthier take on traditional recipes with less sugar and more fruit and veg. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-04/cwa-promotes-healthy-twist-to-recipes-with-less-sugar/12670458 #FoodandCooking #Healthyrecipes #RuralWomen
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Yayuk earns $10 for three days of work. She's now the breadwinner for her family For some Asian women whose husbands are out of work during the COVID-19 pandemic, they have no option but to find low-paid jobs to feed their families. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-04/women-asia-india-indonesia-breadwinners-in-coronavirus-pandemic/12721678 #Business,EconomicsandFinance #DiseasesandDisorders #CommunityandSociety #EconomicIndicator #RuralWomen #COVID-19 #Women
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Rural high school students graduate with 'foot in the door' to farming jobs Students with aspirations of working in agriculture are being provided with hands-on experience and training during high school thanks to a new program. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-23/rural-youth-graduate-taree-tafe-agriculture-pilot-program/12686132 #WomenInAgriculture #Agribusiness #RuralWomen #RuralYouth #Secondary
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'Start again': NSW flood plain harvesting law overturned by Upper House The New South Wales Upper House votes to disallow a law brought in during a significant rain event in February, which allowed irrigators access to harvest flood plain water without a licence. https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2020-09-23/flood-plain-harvesting-law-overturned-nsw-parliament/12691692 #Murray-DarlingBasin #AgriculturalPolicy #AgriculturalCrops #WaterManagement #WaterSupply #Environment #RuralWomen #Floods
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'We have some clout': CWA going from strength to strength in Tasmania When the Country Women's Association get together and find an issue that they believe is important, "everybody listens to us", says Giselle Burningham — and in Tasmania, even more are finding their voice with the help of the CWA. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-20/cwa-going-from-strength-to-strength-in-tasmania/12678478 #CommunityOrganisations #RuralWomen #COVID-19