Agriculture is women's business: season 9 of the CIRAD podcast

Just out 25 September 2026
Women make up 41% of the agricultural workforce worldwide. However, only 20% of them own their land. These systemic inequalities are compounded by a lack of data on and knowledge of their work and how they live. Most studies focus on "typical farmers" or "farm heads", in the masculine. It is against this backdrop of women being largely ignored that the United Nations has declared 2026 "International Year of the Woman Farmer". For "Nourrir le vivant" (Feeding the living world), the CIRAD podcast, this is an opportunity to discuss so-called "aware" approaches, which look at the different roles associated with men and women in agriculture.
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The six episodes os season 9 "Agriculture is women's business", will be released every Friday as of 2 October 2026. The podcast is currently only available in French.

Listen via our website, or on Spotify, Deezer, Apple Podcast, or our YouTube channel.

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Nourrir le vivant, le podcast du Cirad

The global population is set to top ten billion by 2050, which will trigger an explosion in demand for agricultural products. However, conventional production and consumption practices will be unable to satisfy that demand in a sustainable fashion. What with pollution, biodiversity loss and global warming, how can we avoid sawing the branch on which we are all sitting? This huge challenge means making radical changes to how we interact with the living world around us. The CIRAD podcast, Nourrir le vivant (Feeding the living world), takes you on a voyage to discover the territories and people working to reinvent their farming systems. Alongside scientists, crop farmers, training staff, students and livestock farmers discover the potential for change within farming systems, from food production to jobs through ecosystem health.

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