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Article: Ontario Farm Women's Network
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- Women and Environments
- Article date:
- April 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright WEED Foundation Spring 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The Ontario Farm Women's Network promotes social, economic and political equality among Ontario's farm women by recognizing our professional role in agriculture through the sharing of information and mutual support. (Mission Statement, Ontario Farm Women's Network)
The Ontario Farm Women's Network (OFWN) was formally established in as 1988. Our roots are found in local farm women's organizations formed during the hard times of the 1980s, such as Concerned Farm Women and Women for the Survival of Agriculture. From these local groups came an initiative to form an Ontario-wide farm women's organization. Women felt a need for more communication between farm women's groups and provincewide ...