Cultivating Equality 2021
Cultivating Equality 2021

Format

 

The conference will be conducted entirely online from 09:30-17:30 CEST. Contributions will be scheduled to allow participation across different time zones.

The four-day program will provide interactive discussions and contributions to advance gender+ research in agricultural and food systems. 

We invite proposals for full sessions or single contributions in various formats. For possible session themes and perspectives, see here.

CAPACITY STRENGTHENING SESSIONS

Day 1 of the conference will consist of interactive capacity strengthening sessions of 1.5 hours each. These sessions will dive into a methodology, themes or concepts in gender+ research, or another topic such as building gender+  into trainings and curricula. These sessions may take various formats and include interactive break-out sessions.

Click here to submit your proposal for a capacity strengthening session
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PANEL SESSIONS

Panel sessions (1.5 hours) will convene distinguished speakers around a critical theme, issue or angle to be addressed in gender+ in agriculture and food systems. Speakers may be from research or from other sectors – civil society, practice, policy, private sector, donors – who will share insights from different perspectives, speak to demand for and application of gender+ research, etc.

Click here to submit your proposal for a panel session

 

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SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS

Scientific sessions of 1.5 hours will foster active participation and discussions in smaller groups. Formats will vary depending on the organizers. 

There are two ways to contribute to a scientific session:

  1. Organize a full session, in line with the conference themes and perspectives;
     
  2. Contribute a presentation, to be grouped by the conference organizers into thematic sessions of 3 - 4 presentations.

Click here to submit your proposal for a full session or presentation
 

POSTER SESSIONS

Posters will be available for viewing asynchronously and may be presented during poster sessions. There will be an award for the best poster.

Click here to submit your proposal for a poster
 


OPEN STREAM

Suggest your innovative contribution or session up to 1.5 hours related to the conference themes and perspectives. The following ideas are simply to stimulate your imagination:

  • Documentaries or audio-visual material (photos and videos) integrated in sessions and discussed or made available for viewing asynchronously. 
  • Debates, Dragon’s Den pitches for new project ideas, etc.
  • Cultural intermezzos

Click here to submit your proposal

 

NETWORKING

The conference will build in spaces for networking.


Deadline for proposal submissions: 4 June 2021       

 

Welcome to the Cultivating Equality 2021 event page! 

Click here for the plenaries and the programme.

Click here to register for the conference. 

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.