Ensuring food security must necessarily involve women in planning and implementation. Yet 35 years ago, integrating women into international development programs was a novel idea. In Developing Power: How Women Transformed International Development, 27 women from 12 countries recount their activities that collectively helped form and support the global women's movement. By setting their actions into their own biography, these women illustrate the many strands that form the movement and clearly show how individual women can make a difference.