Objectives

The conference addresses how marginalization and social exclusion in agriculture and food systems 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. We refer to this intersectional perspective as ''gender⁺''.

Gender⁺ research and gender⁺ integration in agriculture-related research play a critical role in guiding positive transformations in food systems and societies worldwide.

Generating innovative, conceptually sound, and influential gender⁺ research, and widening and strengthening the networks of researchers dedicated to advancing this work, are the focus of this conference.

The conference addresses five overarching questions:

How do gender concepts, theories and frameworks fare in their application and how can current practice better inform gender theory and concepts?
What lenses can gender research provide to understand the complex nature of today's rural livelihoods, including interconnections between resource-based and non-agricultural livelihoods?
What new, well-informed narratives and discourses help us overcome myths around gender in agriculture and food systems?
How can research contribute to systemic change towards gender equality?
What new methodological and other innovations can contribute to cultivating equality in agri-food systems?

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Through interactive spaces in scientific dialogues and multi-stakeholder panels, the conference will move forward the agenda of gender⁺ research in agriculture and food systems.

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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.