Today as the Government delivers its Well-being Budget, Agri-Women’s Development Trust Founder, Lindy Nelson, reflects on what AWDT has been doing for nine years to improve the well-being of women and New Zealand’s primary industries and rural communities. Well-being is defined as experiencing health, happiness and prosperity. It includes having good mental health, high life-satisfaction, […]
Leadership and governance development of women involved in the primary sector was celebrated
last week as the Agri-Women’s Development Trust (AWDT) marked the 100th graduate from its
Escalator programme.
The Agri-Women’s Development Trust (AWDT) has a new general manager with the appointment of Lisa Sims to the role.
Leading primary sector women’s development organisation, AWDT, has announced a new interim chair and three new trustees, following its annual general meeting on 21 May 2018.
Planning for long-term business success is the focus of a new AWDT programme for sheep and beef farming partners, developed in response to strong industry demand.
A ‘mighty big aspiration’ to find a balance between food production, the environment and people came a step closer last week when 14 women involved in primary industries graduated from AWDT’s national leadership and governance programme.
Becks Smith refers to herself as an AWDT junkie after completing our Understanding Your Farming Business, Escalator and It’s all about YOU programmes, and having Future Focus in her sights for the future.
“The combination of programmes and constructive feedback from the Alumni and staff has helped me develop confidence, connection with a pan sector network, technical skills and the exploration and articulation of my values which has led to the creation of my purpose driven business, The Whole Story” Becks said.
Becks is looking at sustainability differently and wants to bring you along on the journey offering consulting, workshops and research projects to inspire, facilitate and articulate sustainability goals on farms. AWDT is excited to see another one of our graduates making waves in the industry and fulfilling their purpose. Well done Becks!
Connect with Becks to discuss creating sustainability goals which resonate. www.thewholestory.co.nz
Two heads are better than one (and even more heads are better than that). Women from our Understanding Your Farming Business course in Cheviot showing that collaboration and having supportive, empowering people around you will create the best outcomes.
Despite the disruption of 2020, AWDT has had even more participants develop their skills and confidence than any other year!
To see how we can help you fully participate and achieve your goals within your farming business, check out our website and register interest for a future programme and to receive updates as they happen. bit.ly/34O1CG0 Red Meat NZ
Great to see some of our graduates getting the ball rolling here - who else has pics and stories to share? #creatingpositivechange #keepingitrealWe know farmers have undertaken a huge amount of work protecting and planting vegetation on their farms and we want to celebrate that.
Show us the woody vegetation on your farm by commenting with photos from your patch – and please tell us where you’re farming. 👇
We’re building awareness of the recent research showing that NZ sheep and beef farmers are close to being carbon neutral, due to the woody vegetation on their farms offsetting between 63% and 118% of their on-farm agricultural emissions.
Woody vegetation covers indigenous forest, mānuka/kānuka, exotic forest, indigenous shrubland and exotic scrub. We know you know your land so show us what the right vegetation looks like on your property, and maybe what you’ve done to protect and enhance it.
We might contact you to see if you’d be willing to talk a bit more about it.
For more information and to view the research by Dr Bradley Case (AUT - Auckland University of Technology) visit our website: beeflambnz.com/net-carbon-report
Congratulations Shepherdess Magazine - shear passion and perseverance to pull this off - we're glad be a foundation partner in sharing farming women's stories #keepingitrealPretty stoked to receive a Highly Commended Award in the Best COVID Response category tonight at the Webstar Magazine Media Awards. We were in the finals with Here, a new architecture magazine which took out the prize, and NZ Life & Leisure, so no mean feat getting to the finals. To get this recognition from leading publishers in the industry, when we went into publishing at the start of the year, not knowing a thing about it, is quite heartwarming. After the conversations we’ve had today, all we can say is that there are some exciting times ahead! #magazine #publisher #newpublisher #covidresponse #ruralnz #ruralstories #magazineawards #highlycommended
Brilliant. Congratulations for a massive effort
Thank you for your ongoing support Agri-Women's Development Trust (AWDT).
Proud to see #AWDT2020NextLevel graduate Kate Stewart of DairyNZ encouraging others by sharing her leadership 'why'? & highlighting the value of networks and connections - at Massey University Ag Awards. #creatingpositivechange
Fantastic Kate Stewart you are such an amazing inspirational leader 🤩
Kate Stewart well done on the inspirational chat, extremely well articulated!
Awesome work Kate Stewart, love a good networking and connection story!
Awesome Kate
Well done Kate
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