Anika Rahman, co-founder of the Center for Reproductive Rights, former President & CEO of Friends of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and Vice President of Development at the Rainforest Alliance, believes women are the key to solving our environmental woes.

She writes, “I and many others have long maintained that there’s a profound synergy when it comes to gender equality, conservation, and agricultural production.” Read more about this synergy here.

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