Women

International Women’s Day: Break the Bias

Women grow much of the world’s food, often on small scale farms and often to feed our own local communities, but too often the word farmer is associated with men.  Read more

NFU Stands with Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ People

On October 4th, 2021 the National Farmers Union (NFU) joins calls for justice on the National Day of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. On this day Read more

March 8th International Women’s Day message

The National Farmers Union Invites you to stand and celebrate International Women’s Day with one another, and all women of the world.  We lend our voices in solidarity and unity Read more

Farmers Can’t Do it Alone. What we need to fight the climate crisis. 

In inspiring numbers, young farmers are taking to the land to act on climate – but we know that our individual zeal, commitment, and fighting spirit will not be enough Read more

From the Frontlines: Notes from young farmers in the face of the climate crisis

The climate crisis is the greatest threat facing agriculture today.  As farmers, our livelihood is the land, and that puts us on the frontlines of the climate crisis.  As young Read more

To Fight the Climate Crisis We Need More Young People On The Land

While it is becoming increasingly precarious to pursue farming as a career, it is also becoming increasingly compelling to do so.  For many young people, farming offers a unique and Read more

Why I Farm: Reflections on my absurd career choice 

By Laura Fash I never thought I would be a farmer. A lifelong urbanite, my closest encounters with agriculture were my grandpa’s stories about growing up on a dairy farm Read more

NFU Statement Against Violence and For Life

We, the farmers of the National Farmers Union, rise today and every day to stand with our sisters across the globe as we take Action for Life and Against Violence. Read more

Need for universal childcare subsidies and a national pharmacare program

Rural women are experiencing disproportionate pandemic-related economic disadvantages due to more precarious employment in jobs with no health benefits. A Universal Pharmacare program and a Universal Childcare Subsidy will have an enormous positive impact, particularly among women, who have been the most hard-hit. Read more

National Farmers Union urges action to end gender-based violence

(Perth, ON) — On Canada’s National Day of Remembrance and Action on Gender Based Violence, the National Farmers Union (NFU) remembers the 14 young women who were brutally murdered at Read more