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• Educating Women May Improve Food Security in Africa -- EurekAlert (13 May 2013)
  • Link to Simon Wagura Ndiritu's thesis Essays on gender issues, Food Security, and Technology Adoption in East Africa: https://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/32605
    
    
• Q&A: How women are taking a leadership role in agriculture -- MPRNews (28 April 2013)
  
  
• Ecuador's Women Farmers Reap Rewards of Joint Work -- BBC News (28 November 2011)
  
  
• Women farmers taking root: Call it the lure of the land. But a growing number of Minnesota farms are now run by women -- JEAN HOPFENSPERGER, Star-Tribune (05 August 2011)
  
  
  • Girls go farming: An elective class at the Women's Environmental Institute gives girls experience in the dirt [Gallery] -- Star-Tribune (06 August 2011)
    
    
• The Root of Inequality? It's Down to Whether You Ploughed or Hoed... -- The Observer (31 July 2011)

• Agarwal, Bina
  Fourth Lecture: "Can We Make Food Good for All?"
  Nobel Conference 46 Making Food Good Conference -- Gustavus Adolphus College (5-6 October 2010)
  (archives are available online at <http://gustavus.edu/events/nobelconference/2010/archive.php>)
  view video on-line
  
  
• Allport, Susan. The Primal Feast: Food, Sex, Foraging, and Love. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, 2003.
  
  
• Barndt, Deborah. Tangled Routes: Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail. Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.
  
  
• Barndt, Deborah, ed. Women Working the NAFTA Food Chain: Women, Food and Globalization. 2^nd Ed. Toronto: Sumach, 1999.
  
  
• Counihan, Carole. The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning and Power. New York: Routledge, 1999.
  
  
• De Silva, Cara, ed. In Memory's Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezin. Translated from the Czech and Yiddish by Bianca Steiner Brown. New Jersey and London: Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of Jason Aronson, 1996.
  
  
• FAO’s programme for Gender Equality in agriculture and rural development -- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Corporate Document Repository
  
  
• Harbottle, Lynn. Food for Health, Food for Wealth: Ethnic and Gender Identities in British Iranian Communities. NY: Berghan, 2004.
  
  
• Inness, Sherrie A. Secret Ingredients: Race, Gender, and Class at the Dinner Table. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. [Focuses on cookbook authors as agents of social change]
  
  
• Inness, Sherrie A. (Ed.). Pilaf, Pozole, and Pad Thai: American Women and Ethnic Food. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001.
  
  
• Kahn, Miriam. Always Hungry, Never Greedy: Food and the Expression of Gender in a Melanesian Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
  
  
• Naccarato, Peter, and Kathleen LeBesco. Culinary Capital. Bloomsbury/Berg, 2012.
  
  
• Rosenberger, Nancy R. Seeking Food Rights: Nation, Inequality and Repression in Uzbekistan. Wadsworth, 2012.
  
  
• "Status of Female Farmers Rises During Food Crisis" -- Rebecca Harshbarger, WeNews (11 August 2010)
  
  
• Theophano, Janet. Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives Through the Cookbooks They Wrote. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
  
  
• Two Fat Ladies -- Tim Roufs
  
  
• Women, Agriculture and Food Security -- International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
  
  
• Women and sustainable food security -- Sustainable Development Department (SD), FAO
  
  
• Women's contributions to agricultural production and food security: Current status and perspectives -- Economic and Social Development Department, FAO
  
  
• Women Farmers Feed the World -- Nation of Change: Africa (23 October 2011)
  
  
• Voski Avakian, Arlene. Through the Kitchen Window: Women Explore the Intimate Meanings of Food and Cooking. Bloomsbury/Berg, 2005.