URGE

Recognising the work of rural women

Cultivating more just food systems

Sowing the seeds of agroecological transformation

The URGE project – Cultivating Equality: Rural Women, Food Systems and Agroecology in the Iberian Peninsula – investigates the central role of women in family farming in Portugal, Galicia and the Basque Country.

Drawing on a gender perspective and participatory feminist methodologies, URGE aims to raise awareness of the agroecological practices, perspectives and demands of women farmers and rural women, and to contribute to the development of more sustainable, equitable and inclusive food systems.

Cultivating equality. Transforming communities. Caring for the future.

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O projeto é desenvolvido por investigadores/as do Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómica e o Território, do Iscte (DINÂMIA’CET – Iscte), do Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES), da Universidade de Coimbra, da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC), da Universidade do País Basco (UPV) e da Escola Superior Agrária da Universidade Politécnica de Viseu (UPV).

URGE comprises an interdisciplinary team specialising in the fields of agrarian history, gender studies, agroecology, rural sociology, solidarity economies, political ecology and food sovereignty.

The project is being carried out in partnership with the Sindicato Labrego Galego (Galicia) and EHNE-Bizkaia (Basque Country), organisations that campaign for small-scale farming and food sovereignty.

The project adopts a participatory action research approach, developed in partnership with women farmers, rural communities and local organisations. Through the co-production of knowledge, it seeks to bring together research, participation and collective action in order to understand challenges, identify alternatives and promote social transformation.

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