JULY 2025
Dear Network Members,
We can hardly believe we've already reached the halfway mark of the year with our newsletter! It's been wonderful to see so many of you continuing to join this community. We truly appreciate your contributions to the conversations across the network—please keep posting relevant material and spreading the word about this initiative within your circles.
As always, we’ve selected a few articles, news stories, and other updates that we hope you’ll find interesting.
We'll be taking a short break over the next couple of months and will return with our regular newsletter in September. In the meantime, if there's something you'd like us to feature in the next edition, feel free to email us at agrofutures@proton.me by the end of August.
Warmly,
The AgroFutures Team
ACADEMIC ARTICLES
McKay, Ben M., Georgina Catacora‐Vargas, Antonio Castellanos‐Navarrete, Rachel Bezner Kerr, and Jessie K. Luna. "Challenging Agroecology—Promise and Pitfalls for Agrarian Studies." Journal of Agrarian Change (2025): e70019.
Sibanda, M. Feminist Agroecology: Towards Gender-Equal and Sustainable Food Systems inSub-Saharan Africa.Agricultural & Rural Studies, 2025,3, 0001. https://doi.org/10.59978/ar03010001
We also want to point you to the Women & Environments International (WEI) Magazine The magazine examines women's multiple relations to their environments - natural, built and social - from feminist and anti-racist perspectives. Their latest issue included articles on Interspecies Care by Wendy Harcourt and Food Insecurity, Women, and the Ethics of Care by E.Skyler, L. Wyper and K. Cooper. There are also regular calls for submission for contributions.
CALL FOR PAPERS
POLLEN (The Political Ecology Network) has just released its first call for panel submission for the 2026 conference which will take place in Barcelona, June 2026. To submit a panel proposal please visit this page. Panel submissions are open until 31st 2025.
Some of us in the AgroFutures Team will be submitting a panel on “'De-romanticising Agroecology” that will explore issues of social reproduction in agroecology, so please do keep an eye out as we will be posting a call for speakers on this platform later in the year.
EVENTS & TRAINING
Transformation in Action, Agroecology Europe Forum 2025 will take place from October 2-4, 2025 in Malmö, Sweden. Keynote speaker include Dr. Miguel Altieri and you can find more information on the program here
Creative Documentary For Researchers Filmmaking Workshops will take placeonline, July or August 2025. Creative Documentary is a style of documentary filmmaking that engages a wide range of artistic tools to create cinematic works of non-fiction. In this intensive workshop, participants will join a small, international cohort of 8-10 filmmakers, researchers and academics to make a short creative documentary about their own research. Through a variety of collaborative filmmaking exercises over the course of a month, participants will develop a 1 -10 minute documentary on any topic of their choosing, as well as becoming part of the wider IMPRINT Documentary Collective community.
Creative Documentary For Researchers (July Edition)
Thursdays 7-9:30 PM BST, Online
26 June, 3 July, 10 July, 24 July 2025
Creative Documentary For Researchers (August Edition)
Thursdays 7-9:30 PM BST, Online
7, 14, 21, 28 August 2025
Postgraduate certificate course on Environmental Ethicswill take place both online and in-person for a duration of 17 weeks beginning from August 2025. The course is ideally suited for students, professionals, policymakers, development practitioners, and all those interested in the ethical thinking that goes into the drafting and application of environmental policies. It would appeal to all those who seek to understand the framework of ideas that have shaped our current world’s relationship with nature and who wish to gain insights into how this relationship can be rebuilt on a sound and sustainable basis.
The applicatio deadline is 30 June 2025. Those interested in applying for the course can apply using the following form: https://forms.gle/1hUVLbYBXAXFUdR17 [forms.gle]
AGROECOLOGY AND ART
WaterShed at blackShed gallery in Robertsbridge, East Sussex, England
