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#MeToo Food
The hidden dangers of agriculture for women.
Has the #MeToo movement permeated our food chain?
Emily Thomas explores the hidden problem of sexual harassment and abuse in our fisheries and fields, and hears how agriculture is all too often a dangerous occupation for the women who labour in its unseen corners.
We hear from women who have seen this first hand, from the vineyards of South Africa, to shrimp farms in Bangladesh, to tomato pickers in Mexico. What will it take for agriculture to have its own #MeToo moment?
(Photo: Young rural woman carries freshly cut grass for to feed her family’s livestock. Credit: Getty Images).
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Sun 1 Jul 201807:32GMT
BBC World Service except News Internet
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'You people are like flies, we can just blow you away'
Duration: 01:28
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'I was sexually harassed working on farms'
Duration: 03:26
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- Thu 28 Jun 201802:32GMTBBC World Service Online, Americas and the Caribbean, UK DAB/Freeview, Europe and the Middle East & West and Central Africa only
- Thu 28 Jun 201803:32GMTBBC World Service South Asia & East Asia only
- Thu 28 Jun 201804:32GMTBBC World Service Australasia
- Thu 28 Jun 201810:32GMTBBC World Service except News Internet & West and Central Africa
- Thu 28 Jun 201821:32GMTBBC World Service except News Internet
- Sun 1 Jul 201807:32GMTBBC World Service except News Internet
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