A journey through feminist agroecology

Why is agroecology not possible without feminism? What does feminism have to do with the food you eat? Agroecology is gaining steam as the way forward to sustainable, just and healthy food systems, however, there is still ample confusion about why the feminist perspective is important, how it aligns with agroecology and what it has to offer to food system transformation. It is often confused with gender equity, whereas feminist values include but go far beyond gender. 

In this podcast activists, researchers and practitioners who dedicate their lives to feminism and agroecology share how women (and others) are invisibly sustaining the food system, what it means to place ‘life’, rather than profit, in the centre of the food system, and what food systems would look like if they were based on feminist values. We explore how the oppression of women forms part of systemic oppression against anyone who falls out of the white, heterosexual, cis-male box, what decolonial and indigenous feminisms offer to the agroecology movement, and how to strengthen that movement from a feminist perspective. 

This podcast is a collaboration between The Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) and CIDSE. Its production was co-funded by the European Commission.