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Autumm reunions between farmers and researchers within SWIFT
This autumn we held two open and participatory workshops where we shared the results of WP4 and delved deeper into developing a tool for diagnosing the feminist viability of small-scale agroecological production. Following the project's [...]
Vídeos participativos: Innovaciones de los y las agricultoras agroecológicas para hacer frente al caos climático
Go to the ENGLISH version Información general y objetivo El cambio climático afecta profundamente a la producción agraria. Con esta propuesta de vídeo participativo queremos visibilizar los problemas vinculados al caos climático a los que [...]
Call for Video Contributions: Showcasing agroecological farmer Innovations for Climate Action
Background Climate change is deeply affecting farming communities. The aim of this video project is to visibilise the problems encountered by agroecological farmers due to climate change, and share what local innovations farmers develop to [...]
Looking back on the EU policy dialogue “A competitive Europe demands a gender sensitive CAP”
Pictures from ©Tineke Dhaese/Oxfam On 2 October 2025, Oxfam brought together farmers, EU policymakers, researchers, and civil society organisations to explore how the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform for 2027-2034 can be more gender [...]
SWIFT goes to the market for the European Research Night
By Judit Manuel On September 23rd, as part of the European Research Night, we organized a route through Vic (Catalunya-Spain) to get to know agroecological projects and experiences and share what we do in [...]
SWIFT Comic book: Women at the Heart of European Agriculture
A comic book that explores gender in European agriculture and the Common Agricultural Policy. How can we explain the issue of gender in European agricultural policy in a visual and accessible way? To answer this [...]
Introducing the Soil Sisters Podcast Series: Towards Feminist Agroecological Futures in Europe
Ahead of the International Day of Rural Women on 15 October, the SWIFT project has released the first four episodes in its collaboratively created podcast series 'Soil Sisters: Towards Feminist Agroecological Futures in Europe'. Soil [...]
EVENT – Women Leading Rural Innovation: From Vision to Action
On October 17, from 9AM, we'll be participating in the conference "Women Leading Rural Innovation: From Vision to Action", organised by our sister project FLIARA in Brussels (Rue de Belliard 99, Room JDE 51 - [...]
Gender Responsive Budgeting as a way to make European agriculture policies more inclusive
Photo Credits: Kirstin Eckstein (ÖBV - Via Campesina Austria) The current agricultural sector cultivates inequalities Indeed, education is still highly gendered and leads to gendered repartition of tasks in all areas of life, including [...]
SWIFT’s recommendations to address gender inequalities in the next CAP
The European Commission is expected to publish its first proposal for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) post-2027 in July 2025. The European Parliament and the Council of the European Union will then have to react [...]
Gender in Agroecology: Structural Barriers and Identified Strategies in the Field
The European Commission has made an explicit commitment to gender equality but, despite this, a review of the role of women in EU agriculture has found that the Common Agricultural Policy fails to consider women [...]
WEBINAR: Gender in Agroecology: Structural Barriers and Identified Strategies in the Field
Sister Projects Agroecology-TRANSECT and SWIFT come together in a webinar you cannot miss. This webinar, which will take place on Wednesday 28 May at 10:00, examines the gendered impacts of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy [...]
Academia, policymakers and the farming sector meet to discuss gender equality
On March 27, 2025, our sister project FLIARA hosted a groundbreaking online event titled “Empowering Rural Communities: Gender Equality and Innovation in Action.” The webinar brought together a diverse panel of researchers, policymakers, and rural [...]
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 [...]
Integrating a feminist perspective in research projects – webinar conclusions
Research with a feminist perspective is a tool for social change that addresses systemic issues in social systems. Adopting a horizontal or bottom-up approach to the research process ensures every participant is enabled, if not [...]
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 [...]