The food on the dinner table has quite a story to tell, and more often than many people realize, a woman helped write it. From tending vegetable fields before sunrise to managing orchards, livestock, vineyards, beehives, and bustling farm businesses, women help keep food moving from the soil to the supermarket. Their work rarely grabs headlines, but it touches nearly every meal.
That is one reason the United Nations declared 2026 the International Year of the Woman Farmer. The year shines a spotlight on the women who grow, harvest, process, and sell food while encouraging greater access to land, education, financing, technology, and leadership opportunities. It also reminds consumers that agriculture looks very different today than it did just a generation ago, and women stand at the center of many of those changes.
