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International trade is often viewed as environmentally unproblematic, even beneficial. This article challenges this view, using new trade data from the Food and Agriculture Organization to document inefficiencies in global food trade and to question the prioritization of economics over environment. It can be difficult to identify the effects of macro-level phenomena, such as trade agreements and climate change, on people’s lives at the micro-level. This article uses qualitative research conducted with farm women in the Canadian prairies to illustrate the intersection of policy, climate change, and their gendered effects in everyday life. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]