A better educated farm workforce would be better able to prevent or mitigate food loss whether it is by identifying crop diseases early and knowing how to treat them or planning and executing appropriate logistics and distribution operations.
The dearth of a new generation of jimadores is symptomatic of a widespread decline in agricultural work in Mexico, with figures showing that the farm workforce fell by two million between 1995 and 2010, while pay for agricultural jobs has remained relatively static.
Large longitudinal studies are one approach to increase catchment of women participants, yet there was a notable dearth of these studies in the review, likely because farm workforces are seasonal and migrant.
Jobs growth since Mr LePage took over has been disappointing: Maine has added a net 8,000 jobs out of a total non-farm workforce of 600,000.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are currently 12.3 million manufacturing jobs in the United States, or 8.5percentnt of the total non-farm workforce.
And the Trump administration's aggressive enforcement of immigration laws and promise to build a wall to keep more people from crossing the border illegally threaten the viability of the on-farm workforce.
Migrants coming more recently from Central America, many of them also looking for better jobs and opportunities for their families, and often fleeing violence in their home countries, haven't traditionally entered the crop-farm workforce in enough numbers to compensate for the loss of those Mexican workers they've instead found jobs at meatpacking plants and in the service industries.
Although women make up 80% of the farming workforce, men are five times as likely to own land.
Back then, Southern Democrats refused to sign legislation that would protect African Americans, who made up the bulk of the farming workforce, said Wilson.
That, says Mr Adesina, is why 45% of Nigeria's tomatoes are ruined every day.Women, who make up a good half of the farming workforce, are often forced into farming by marriage.
It's popular media – including The Vicar of Dibley – that continue to stereotype twee villages, inhabited by bucolic locals, where everyone farms (in fact, UK Agriculture records that in 2006 Britain's farming workforce totalled just 184,000).
