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SWIFT Project: Strengthening Gender and Diversity in Agriculture
This post originally appeared on www.ruralsociologywageningen.nl. Here you can find the original version. -- Last November, the SWIFT consortium gathered in Geneva for an inspiring and thought-provoking mid-term meeting. Over four days, researchers, farmers, and [...]
SWIFT members start cooking up feminist advocacy strategies
By Joanna Bourke Martignoni - Geneva Graduate Institute Our second SWIFT in-person meeting took place from 18-21 November in Geneva, Switzerland. More than 70 people from 30 different organisations - farmers, civil society and [...]
Integrating a Feminist Perspective in Research Projects – A webinar
SWIFT will be hosting a webinar titled "Integrating a Feminist Perspective in Research Projects" on the 12th of December at 2-4 PM (CET) to reflect on the experiences and challenges of using feminist methodologies and perspectives in [...]
Women from Central and Eastern Europe committed to agroecology meet in Poland
Text by Ruta Spiewak Pictures by Elwira Wilczynska and Agnieszka Dybowska Almost thirty women and two men from eight countries, three intensive days at the Ecological Folk University, meetings, workshops, and communal singing – [...]
Why we celebrate feminism on Food Sovereignty Day
Agroecology and intersectional feminism can be powerful allies in the fight for justice. When these two visions come together, they strengthen each other's efforts and help fill gaps in advocacy and activism, making the push [...]
Participación de SWIFT en el X Congreso Internacional de Agroecología
Por Rita Calvario, investigadora del Centro de Estudios Sociales de la Universidad de Coimbra El 4 de septiembre, durante el X Congreso Internacional de Agroecología de Viseu (4-6 de septiembre), el proyecto SWIFT organizó [...]
SWIFT participation at the X International Congress of Agroecology
By Rita Calvario, Researcher at the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra On 4 September, during the X International Congress of Agroecology in Viseu (4-6 September), the SWIFT project organised a [...]
SWIFT Project wins a special mention at the conclusion of Redesigning Global Farming & Food Systems Master’s course in WUR
This article by Marieke Enter originally appeared on resource.online.nl Photo: Marieke Enter Help, my community is starving!’ And ‘If you keep on with that deforestation, you’ll cause a climate disaster!’ There were plenty of [...]
La alimentación en riesgo: una breve radiografía en Odemira
Soledad Castillero Quesada y Rita Calvário, Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra La alimentación y la salud son dos ideas que están unidas, pues alimentarse es ante todo una cuestión fisiológica pero también una [...]
Food at Risk: an Overview of Odemira’s Agricultural Challenges
Soledad Castillero Quesada and Rita Calvário, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra Food and health are two ideas that go hand in hand, as eating is first and foremost a physiological issue, but [...]
Supporting women and gender diversity in agriculture is a pathway to agroecological transition
The European agricultural sector is marked by high levels of inequality. The agricultural gender gap is at risk of increasing. It is often men who claim the identity of ‘farmer’, despite the significant role women and [...]
SWIFT se suma a la denuncia y acciones de las pequeñas agricultoras en Europa
En el contexto de las crecientes protestas en el sector agrícola en Europa, el malestar creciente de las personas productoras con las políticas agrarias, el proyecto SWIFT, cuyo objetivo fundamental es eliiminar todo tipo de [...]
SWIFT joins smallholder women farmers in Europe in speaking out and action
In the context of the growing protests in the agricultural sector in Europe, and the growing unease of producers with agricultural policies, the SWIFT project, whose main objective is to eliminate all kinds of inequality [...]
How to make EU agricultural policies more gender transformative?
Feature Image Credits: Tineke D’haese/Oxfam Belgium Making european agricultural policies more gender transformative: exchanges on women’s needs and Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) as a way to address them. In November 2023, 28 people [...]
Cultivating change: Research plans inspired by female and non-binary farmers’ stories
In March 2023, four representatives of Rural Sociology Group attended the SWIFT project’s kick-off meeting. Here SWIFT researcher Georgia Diamanti shares some of her experiences and reflections. Agriculture is masculine: only 30% of all [...]