Mexican farmer Oliva Ramirez walks along a hillside filled with some 2,000 green agave plants she owns to create mezcal, deep in the mountain range of Oaxaca where generations of farmers have produced the popular alcoholic drink.
Ramirez, 32, a third-generation expert mezcal producer or 'palenquera' and the first woman in her family to work in the business, has faced patriarchal norms that once did not allow women to participate in mezcal production.
