536. Monicah Yator on the Women Farmers Rewriting the Future of Food and Farming

2026 is the International Year of the Woman Farmer, and for the first episode of Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg of the year, we're kicking things off with a special conversation about the essential role that women play across food and agriculture systems. Dani sits down with Monicah Yator, Founder of Indigenous Women and Girls Initiative, to discuss the cross-cutting benefits of investing in and uplifting women farmers, exciting progress in East Africa to protect smallholder producers and promote agroecology, and Yator's hopes for the future of food and farming systems.

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536. Monicah Yator on the Women Farmers Rewriting the Future of Food and Farming is an episode from Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg by Danielle Nierenberg.

This episode is 25:26 long.

This episode was published on Jan 1, 2026.

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