“While the rural, landowning male Amercan farmer has dominated the landscape of farm nonfiction, Nancy draws from diverse and rich journalistic experiences around the world to assess necessary and urgent female changemakers in key roles of the food system. She situates her work within an intersectional framework of colonialism, and shares with eaters and food activists everywhere valuable lessons from the women of developing countries who count for upwards 60-80% of the agricultural workforce in those countries. There’s no better time than now for this book… and there is no better person to write about this topic.”

—Dan Barber, chef-owner, Blue Hill and Blue Hill at Stone Barns; creative director, Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture; author, The Third Plate

“Women play enormously important roles in food systems and in the food movement, but are often overlooked. Matsumoto brings women out of the shadows and highlights the efforts of a wide diversity of women in the United States and in low-resource countries throughout the world to create food systems healthier for people and the planet.”

—Marion Nestle, Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, New York University Emerita