Gearing up to Celebrate the International Year of the Woman Farmer By Deputy Agriculture Secretary Xochitl Torres Small and Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Alexis Taylor Did you know that women are responsible for roughly half of the world's food production? The United Nations' designation of 2026 as the International Year of the Woman Farmer gives the global community a chance to highlight that fact and celebrate the incredibly important role women play in ensuring global food security. At the same time, it's an unprecedented opportunity to underscore – and to address – the myriad social and economic challenges that women in agriculture face worldwide. We're so proud of USDA's role in leading U.S. government efforts to introduce and generate support for the resolution, which was cosponsored by 123 other nations and passed by the UN General Assembly in May. This marked the first time in history that the United States was the lead sponsor of an "international year" at the UN, demonstrating just how important the role of women in agriculture is to our department, our nation and the world. That's why last week we hosted a gathering of more than 200 partners and stakeholders on USDA's Whitten Patio (along with another 800 who joined us online!) to celebrate the resolution's passage and to begin networking and sharing ideas for how to make the 2026 observance of the International Year of the Woman Farmer a momentous and transformational one. Please click here to read more >> | 
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