Special issue of Farming Matters magazine published by The AgriCultures Network, CIDSE and Cultivate! – October 2020
Upcoming : Spanish version
This issue of Farming Matters brings to the forefront how perspectives such as intersectional feminism and indigenous cosmologies coupled with agroecology have been transforming our economy and society. These insights offer pertinent lessons for the pursuit of deeper, much needed transformation.
It was officially launched at a webinar on 7 October 2020. Live visual notes were made during the webinar in the form of an infographic on feminism and agroecology, available for download.
- Contents
- Editorial: Agroecology and feminist economics: New values for new times by Janneke Bruil, François Delvaux, Assane Diouf, Rose Hogan, Jessica Milgroom, Paulo Petersen, Bruno Prado and Suzy Serneels
- Perspectives: The path to feminist agroecology by Marta Soler Montiel, Marta Rivera-Ferre and Irene García Roces
- The emergent kitchen: ‘food for life’ in Ecuador in the face of COVID-19 by Eliana Estrella, Marcelo Aizaga and Stephen Sherwood
Photo story: The power of women’s networks for agroecology in India by Soumya Sankar Bose and Amrita Gupta - Opinion: The economic potential of agroecology in Europe by Jan Douwe van der Ploeg and Janneke Bruil
- Can feminist agroecology be scaled up and out? by Isabel Álvarez Vispo and Paola Romero-Niño
- Perspectives: The rise of rural women’s movements in Southern Africa by Mercia Andrews
- Care ethics in agroecology research: practices from Southern Mexico by Diana Lilia Trevilla Espinal and Ivett Peña Azcona
- Highland agriculture in the hands of women by Lidia Paz Hidalgo
- Opinion: Towards a feminist reparative agroecology by Rachel Bezner Kerr
- Interview with Leonida Odongo: “Agroecology in Africa has a female face” by Leonardo van den Berg and Janneke Bruil
- Agroecology nourishes the spirit of life in Maya cosmology by Juana Patricia Sanic, Manuela Elizabeth Telón, David Humberto Paredes and Felix Atonio Archila
- Opinion: Reclaiming our Indigenous food economies by Diane Wilson, Rowen White and Elizabeth Hoover
- Growing equity through agroecology in Uganda by Joshua Aijuka, Robert Guloba, Denis Okello and Mary Baganizi
- Opinion: Pivoting from local food to just food systems by Colin Anderson, Jessica Milgroom and Michel Pimbert
- Harvesting the liberation of peasant women in Brazil by Cleidineide Pereira de Jesus, Deborah Murielle Santos, Iridiani Graciele Seibert and Michela Calaça
- Women organising agroecology for resilience in the Sahel by Tsuamba Bourgou and Peter Gubbels
- In short: El Salvador, Nicaragua, Zimbabwe, Eastern Europe and Central Asia
- Resources: Essential reading on feminism, agroecology and new economics
This publication was produced with the financial support of the European Union. Its contents are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union or of the editorial team.
Credit cover photo: REDSAG Guatemala