12-15 October 2021

This year, the UN Food Systems Summit calls for “bold actions to transform the way the world produces and consumes food” to advance the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Gender equality is a pre-condition for achieving these goals and generating sustainable and resilient agricultural and food systems.

The online conference ‘Cultivating Equality: Advancing Gender Research in Agriculture and Food Systems’ focusses on research that helps understand and advance positive synergies among sustainable and resilient agricultural, rural and food systems, and equality in societies globally.

It addresses how marginalization and social exclusion are shaped at the intersection of gender with other social dimensions, such as socio-economic status, age or generation, ethnicity, or religion and belief systems, and the catalytic role gender research can play to help overcome such exclusions.

For a rich exchange of knowledge and perspectives, we welcome proposals for contributions form researchers, students, and other actors in every stage of their career, from across the globe and focusing on any continent.

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Key note speakers:

Bina Agarwal
Professor of Development Economics and Environment at GDI, University of Manchester, UK. Bina has been President of the International Society for Ecological Economics and the International Association for Feminist Economics.
Bina’s writings cover women’s land rights, agrarian change, environmental governance, and poverty and inequality and include the award-winning A Field of One’s Own (1994); Gender and Green Governance ( 2010); and Gender Challenges (2016).

Andrea Cornwall
Professor of Global Development and Anthropology at SOAS, University of London; currently Pro-Director (Research & Enterprise). Andrea has been Director of the Pathways of Women’s Empowerment Consortium, a research programme with continental hubs focusing on global policies on women’s empowerment and gender equality. Next to thought provoking articles on gender and development, Andrea co-edited ‘Feminisms and Development: Contradictions, Contestations and Challenges’ (2013); and Masculinities under Neoliberalism (2017).

Amon Ashaba Mwiine
Lecturer in the School of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University, Uganda. Amon’s research interests are in critical studies of men and masculinity; ethnographic and narrative forms of qualitative research; gender and politics. Amon currently teaches Men Studies: Masculinities and Development; Gender and Sexuality and Feminist theory; and is trainer with Gender responsive Researchers equipped for Agricultural Transformation (GREAT).

Tania Eulalia Martinez-Cruz
Postdoctoral researcher, Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, UK, working on nutrition, gender, and Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems. Tania is an interdisciplinary researcher with grades in Engineering and Social Sciences, and collaborated in international development projects for over 12 years. As an Ëyuujk indigenous woman and researcher, Tania promotes the conservation of indigenous knowledge as being key to the biocultural diversity of indigenous peoples and to tackle global problems, for instance as speaker at the UN Food Systems Pre-Summit 2021.

This conference is co-hosted by the CGIAR GENDER Platform, which is grateful for the support of CGIAR Trust Fund Contributors.