Start-Ups, Diversity, and Shaking up the Food Industry
Start-Ups, Diversity, and Shaking up the Food Industry—Interview with Rabobank’s Innovation Head Anne Greven for Women in Food and Ag The food industry is being powerfully reshaped by its consumers, as demographically diverse younger generations have grown into an influential consumer bloc, seeking exotic flavors, responding to woke brands, and demanding new things now. But […]
AgriBriefing launch pioneering industry wide survey on Women in Food and Agriculture
AgriBriefing’s Women in Food and Agriculture campaign, which promotes the role of women across the agribusiness supply chain, has today announced the launch of the first industry-wide diversity and inclusion survey, supported by Alltech. Agribusiness and food production are the world’s largest employers, and across the supply chain there is a huge appetite to address […]
Diverse Workforce Crucial for Company Development, Says ADM’s Aurélie Giles – Women in Food & Agriculture
In January 2019, Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) announced its commitment to achieve gender parity within its senior leadership structure by 2030, through a partnership with Paradigm for Parity – a coalition comprised of CEOs, senior executives, founders, board members and business academics who are committed to achieving a new norm in corporate leadership: one […]
Rima Al-Azar of the FAO on Climate and Supporting Women in Agriculture
Rima Al-Azar is an international development expert and Senior Natural Resources Officer in the Climate and Environment Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. Fluent in four languages, with experience in over 50 countries around the globe, her expertise includes social development issues such as gender, social inclusion, migration, citizen, […]
BEING a figure of transformational change, AHDB chief executive Jane King is on a mission to inject diversity into the workplace.
BITING the bullet and looking for different styles of leadership is what the industry needs to take it forward. Former first female editor of Farmers Weekly and now AHDB chief executive, Jane King says her experience in being selected for farming roles – having not come from an agricultural background – came down to transformational […]
Why STEM needs more female pioneers to break the mould. Alice Dyer speaks to the Small Robot Company’s Catherine Pratt
Despite being a distant relative of the famous agriculturalist, Jethro Tull, Catherine Pratt’s life and work had no link to farming until she started her job as chief operating officer at the Small Robot Company last May. With an aptitude for maths and science, after completing a degree in maths and economics, Catherine’s career began […]
“There are people out there who have prejudices [against women] – it’s a red-rag to a bull for me – I want to challenge those stereotypes in a methodical way.”
Ahead of the WFA Summit in December, Jez Fredenburgh catches up with one of the speakers Jane Rickson, president of the Institution of Agricultural Engineers, about the need to get more women into the industry and why confidence is key. As the first female president of the Institution of Agricultural Engineers, Jane Rickson believes it […]
Lessons from a CEO Who Built Her Company From Scratch
Dr. Antje Eckel Founder and CEO Dr. Eckel Animal Nutrition INTERVIEW: Lessons from a CEO Who Built Her Company from Scratch – Women in Food & Agriculture This year, German animal nutrition firm Dr. Eckel marks 25 years of existence. From its beginnings in the corners of the family home in Niederzissen, founder and CEO […]
Microsoft’s Claudia Roessler on Diversity: “You Can’t Fake It”
Claudia Roessler is the Director of Agriculture in Microsoft’s Azure Global Engineering Group. She is responsible for developing strategic partnerships around digital innovation and ag tech solutions within the agricultural ecosystem. Originating from Germany, Roessler now operates within the U.S. where she seeks to help businesses drive increased productivity by leveraging technology. Roessler joined Microsoft […]
The agricultural machinery business may be dominated by men, but women are thriving in senior positions as Olivia Midgley and Jane Carley find out
SIAN Pritchard, managing director of Kuhn UK and Melanie Gardner, dealer development manager at John Deere, are blazing a trail in the male-dominated farm machinery trade but maintain gender is not an issue in the industry. From landing a job as an export assistant at one of Kuhn Group’s factories in the West of France, […]
