Cultivating Equality 2021
Cultivating Equality 2021

Conference Programme

 

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(version: 11 October) of the Cultivating Equality 2021 conference.
 

Programme updates will be provided when available.

Plenaries: daily 14.00-15.30 CEST

Tuesday, October 12, 14:00-15:30 CEST
Conference opening plenary

Moderator and conference host: Vivian Atakos, CGIAR GENDER Platform

Opening remarks:

Arthur Mol, Rector Magnificus/Vice-president Executive Board Wageningen
University & Research, Netherlands

Claudia Sadoff, CGIAR Executive Management Team Convener; Managing
Director, Research Delivery and Impact

Nicoline de Haan, Director CGIAR GENDER Platform

Conference co-ordinators:

  • Margreet van der Burg, Senior Lecturer/Researcher Gender Studies,
    Wageningen University & Research; WUR Daily Project leader     EU Gender-SMART
  • Marlène Elias, CGIAR GENDER Platform Alliances Module Leader

Keynote:

Bina Agarwal, Professor Development Economics and Environment, GDI, University
of Manchester, UK: Cultivating Equality by Cultivating in Groups

 

Wednesday, October 13, 14:00-15:30
Plenary: The Politics of Knowledge and Plural Visions
for Equitable Agriculture and Food Systems

Moderator: Esha Shah, Scholarly Teacher, Wageningen University

Keynotes:

Andrea Cornwall, Professor Global Development and Anthropology,  SOAS, University
of London, UK: Decolonizing Gender and Development

Amon Ashaba Mwiine, Lecturer School of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere
University, Uganda: Plural Feminisms, Pathways & Practices towards
Equitable Food Systems: Visions for the future

Tania Eulalia Martinez-Cruz, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Greenwich, UK:
Whose Food Sovereignty? Encounters and Discounters in Transnational Space:
Reflections and lessons from Indigenous Peoples in Latin America

 

Thursday, October 14, 14:00-15:30 CEST
Plenary: Rural Women's Voices - Messages to researchers

Moderator: Agnes Atim Apea, Hope Development Initiative, Uganda, Member of
Parliament and Deputy Chairperson for the Committee of Agriculture, Uganda

Panelists:

Wairimu Kanyiri, GROOTS, Kenya

Willemien Koning-Hoeve, Dairy farmer, Chair Netherlands LTO Women Farmers
(LTO Women and Business), member European COPA-COGECA's Women Committee

Bhavanaben Parmar and Mansi Shah, Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA), India

Eileen Mairena, Researcher & Advocacy Officer, Centre for the Autonomy and Development
of Indigenous Peoples (CADPI), Nicaragua

 

Friday, October 15, 14:00-16:00 CEST
Closing plenary:
A Forward-looking Agenda for Gender Research in
Agriculture and Food Systems 

Moderator: Seema Arora-Jonsson, Professor Rural Development in Sweden
and Europe, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Panelists:

Bettina B. Bock, Professor Inclusive Rural Development, Wageningen University;
Professor Population Decline and Quality of Rural Life, University of Groningen

Rolando Cerda, Researcher and Professor, Tropical Agricultural Research and
Higher Education Centre (CATIE), Costa Rica

Nicoline de Haan, Director CGIAR GENDER Platform

Jemimah Njuki, Africa Director, International Food Policy Research Institute
(IFPRI); UNFSS Custodian for Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment

Philip Otieno, Executive Director, Advocates for Social Change Kenya (ADSOCK)

Vicki Wilde, Senior Program Officer, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

 

 

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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.