This chapter focuses on the role of the public and private sectors in supporting women on smallholder farms. For the purposes of this chapter, I am defining smallholder women farmers to include those working on small-acre farms as well as those who have established niche industries on larger farms. Context is significant and this chapter is written from an Australian perspective and is very much shaped by the vast continent supporting a range of farms in often hostile environments. In Australia, bigger farms are the norm, and agricultural developments are shaped by a ‘get big or get out’ mentality (Newsome 2020) that fosters farm production units expanding in order to enhance production and remain solvent (Cassidy et al. 2019; Becot and Inwood 2022). Agricultural production in Australia is dominated by a neoliberal mantra focused on economic growth that precludes significant attention to the people engaged in production. This market focus leads to an overemphasis on the economic drivers of production and a consequent lack of attention to the social structures that shape the industry. Not surprisingly, there is a lack of focus on smallholder farms and an ignorance of the needs of producers by governments and other institutions and of the types of policies and structures that would assist those who are doing the work of farming.