Women Landowner Resource Guide
Women landowners control nearly 50% of the agriculture land in the Midwest and are a powerful population foreffecting real change in conservation practices. Their potential, however, is under-recognized and they are oftenleft out of conservation outreach and education. Given these barriers related to gender, it is crucial for agriculturalorganizations to support women landowners and farmers as active partners in conservation. The following insightswere gathered from American Farmland Trust's "Women for the Land" Learning Circles, which sought to determinethe conservation needs of women. The program combined research-based, participatory methods to create peernetworks for women in agriculture to share their expertise and experiences with one another.