2023 U.S. Regenerative Agriculture & Health Accelerator
Accelerating women-led land-based initiatives to solve our most pressing food and health challenges.
The U.S. Regenerative Agriculture & Health Accelerator expands upon WEA's longstanding accelerator model, generating measurable and sustained improvements to our environment, economies, and communities by strengthening and unifying women-led grassroots solutions.
Through this year-long program, participants are equipped with a holistic set of practical skills in entrepreneurship, leadership, advocacy, and project development and management to create long-lasting and just solutions within their communities.
As a result of the training, tools, and network infrastructure provided, program participants are able to deepen their strategies for change through tapping into a global community of learning and practice; build powerful alliances within and across movements and regions; and scale solutions for environmental protection, health, and justice.
Our carefully-selected cohort of changemakers works on diverse projects including:
We need women's leadership now more than ever.
Throughout time and across cultures, women have played a critical role in producing our world's food, medicines, and healthcare systems, while protecting ecological knowledge key to our survival and stewarding our natural resources. As the primary caregivers to families and communities, women are the link between farm and table. And as farmers, herbalists, medicinal plant collectors, and native plant and seed custodians, they are the nexus of agri-nutrition-health.
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, it highlighted and worsened the systemic inequalities faced by women — particularly those in frontline communities — who face a disproportionate burden of limited access to healthcare, food insecurity, increased violence, job loss, and more. These injustices are compounded by the ongoing threats posed by climate change, and expose how, as a global community, we are at a crossroads. Feeding our growing population and sustaining the natural resources we depend on will require a shift toward small-scale, ecological farming methods so that land and resources can regenerate. And women will play a critical role in the future of agriculture, health, food security, and sustainability around the world.
Through the Accelerator, Leaders:
DESIGN ACTION PLANS & DEEPEN IMPACT
As part of a national cohort, Leaders will strengthen and unify women's agriculture and health initiatives, generating measurable and sustained impacts to our global environment, economies, and communities.
NETWORK WITH LEADERS IN YOUR SECTOR
By joining this program, Leaders will join a national and global network of grassroots, environmental leaders, gaining access to new funding, best practices, allies, and visibility
SHARE RESOURCES
Leaders will gain skills in professional development, leadership, entrepreneurship, advocacy, communications, and technical solutions from global facilitators, regional experts, and cohort peers.
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Here's what previous WEA U.S. Leaders are saying:
