Is it best that our food is Local and Organic or Big and Conventional? Our view is “Both, and..” We don’t come to the table with a bias, except that good farming like good food comes in all shapes and sizes. Farm to Table Talk explores issues and the growing interest in the story of how and where the food on our tables is produced, processed and marketed. The host, Rodger Wasson is a food and agriculture veteran. Although he was the first of his family to leave the grain and livestock farm a ...
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Women & Rice Farming
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"The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women. If it is educating its girls, if women have equal rights, that country is going to move forward. But if women are oppressed and abused and illiterate, then they're going to fall behind." ~ Barack Obama~ "Farming is a profession of hope." ~Brian Brett~ For more information on women in rice farming visit: Philippine Commission on Women | pcw.gov.ph CGIAR: Research on Gender & Agriculture http://www.cgiar.org/our-research/research-on-gender-and-agriculture/ [First aired on SoundCloud: August 7, 2013]
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