Women and Agriculture: Learn More & Take Action
Exhibiting Partners:
Church World Service works with partners to eradicate hunger and poverty and to promote peace and justice around the world. Church World Service has programs to feed the hungry, respond to emergencies, support immigrants and refugees, assist mothers and children, and ensure access to clean water for all. They work in over 140 countries around the world, including in the United States, where they have programs to respond to natural disasters and support immigrants and refugees.
The Des Moines Area Religious Council is an association of over 400 volunteers and 140 religious congregations in Greater Des Moines that work together to fill emergency food needs in central Iowa. The Des Moines Area Religious Council runs a network of emergency food pantries through its Move the Food program and coordinates a system of food donation barrels in area grocery stores through its Red Barrel Program.
The Drake University Service Learning Program is a set of partnerships between Drake University students, faculty, alumni, and staff and charitable organizations in the Greater Des Moines metropolitan area. Each partnership with the Service Learning Program is designed to meet a community need while building the knowledge and skill sets of students. The Drake University Agricultural Law Center works with nutrition assistance programs, farm to school, food policy, and local food planning statewide.
Oxfam America supports communities in 90 countries around the world to implement their own solutions to problems of poverty in their communities. Oxfam America complements this work with education efforts that provide Americans with information about global hunger and opportunities to make a difference through advocating for policies that help poor people around the world. Volunteers with the Iowa Oxfam Action Corps work to improve national legislation and deepen local community resources for fighting poverty and injustice
As a Christian response to world hunger, Foods Resource Bank (FRB) links the grassroots energy and commitment of the U.S. agricultural community with the capability and desire of small farmers in developing countries to grow lasting solutions to hunger.
The Iowa International Center provides access to international resources to Iowans, new Iowans, and international visitors to Iowa. The overarching impact provides economic and leadership development resulting in Iowa being a more inclusive and welcoming place to live, work and raise a family.
Iowa State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences supports women in agriculture through their Office of Global Programs and Center for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods, which helps small landholder farmers in Kamuli District, Uganda to achieve food security, improve household nutrition, and stabilize income through sustainable crop and livestock production, access to marketing opportunities, school gardens and lunch programs, and mother/child nutrition education centers.
Self Help International supports people in Ghana and Nicaragua to work their way out of poverty. Self Help International’s work falls under five major initiatives. Self Help International helps Americans to understand the problems of life in developing countries, trains developing country farm families on the use of more nutritious varieties of corn, supports infant and preschool feeding programs using these varieties of corn, provides micro-credit for women to start small-scale businesses, and collaborates with other organizations in Ghana and Nicaragua to introduce appropriate farming practices that enable farmers to break the cycle of poverty.
The Women, Food and Agriculture Network (WFAN) is a community of women involved in sustainable agriculture. Members include farmers, landowners, researchers, students, advocates and mothers concerned about their families’ health. Members come from all over the US and several other countries, but the majority of WFAN's work is done in the Midwest.
The World Food Prize was established in 1986 to be the foremost international award recognizing the achievements of individuals who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity, or availability of food in the world.