Our Team
The Feminist Agroecology Network is managed by a group of early career researchers working across Europe, Latin America, Western and South Asia.
Arianna Tozzi
The Universtiy of ManchesterArianna is an human geographer researching processes of rural agrarian transformation and grassroots-led approaches to social and environmental change. Currently, she is a Research Fellow at the University of Manchester working on a project that examines the history of cotton monocultures in central India, and explore how women-led agroecology groups may offer pathways out of the current crisis of agrarian livelihoods in the region. The project combines archival and ethnographic research with creative and art-based methodologies and is developed in collaboration with the Mahila Kisan Adhikar Manch (MAKAAM) - or forum for women farmer’s rights.
Enid Still
Enid works at the intersection of anthropology and feminist political ecology to examine affective relationships in processes of socio-ecological change. She is currently re-working her PhD thesis into a book that explores the ways emotions, memories and sensory experience shape transitions to organic farming in Tamil Nadu, India.
Independent Researcher Ana Cabrera Pacheco
Ana is a human geographer whose work is deeply rooted in feminist geographies and decolonial perspectives. Recently, she completed a one-year role in the Agrobiodiversity Conservation and Management programme within the government of Yucatán, Mexico, where she contributed to policy and practice around agrobiodiversity and sustainable livelihoods. Previously, Ana held a PDRA position at the University of Edinburgh, working closely with Maya Indigenous communities in Guatemala. Her research examined lived experiences in post-disaster contexts. Amongst her collaborative outputs was a Tz’utujil recipe book, co-created with a group of Tz’utujil women, which highlighted food as a site of recovery, memory, and cultural continuity.
University of BayreuthBüşra Üner
Büşra Üner is a sociologist working at the intersection of political ecology, gender, social movements, and decolonial studies. She is currently a junior fellow at the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS) in Bayreuth, Germany. She is currently finishing her Ph.D. research on rural women’s environmental activism and potential feminist and environmental solidarities in Somkhele, South Africa. Previously, she completed her M.A. in Sociology at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. She also worked as a research assistant at the Center for Spatial Justice, an Istanbul-based civil society organization, where she remains a member. Apart from academic and civil society work, she enjoys spending time in nature, admiring flowers, and collecting and planting seeds. She volunteered at a community garden in Nürnberg, Germany, and enjoys spending time there. In Türkiye, she spends time in her family’s garden in Tekirdağ.
