Research Notes: Alissa Bilfield

Alissa Bilfield contributed the chapter "Women Smallholder Farmers Growing Beverage Crops" to Women and Smallholder Farming: Addressing Global Inequities in Agriculture, which was published in September 2025 by Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing. The article offers an overview of the history and evolution of the integration of women farmers in agriculture across the global coffee and tea industries, highlighting historic inequities and current efforts to empower women farmers at various levels of the supply chain and through international industry collaboration. Bilfield is a professor of practice in management and executive director of the Goldring Institute for International Business.