JUNE 2025

Dear subscribers,

This month, we would like to invite you to explore the website of the EU-funded FLIARA Project, which aims to increase the visibility and recognition of women’s contributions to sustainable farming and rural development in Europe. The project seeks to enhance public understanding of the challenges faced by women leading innovative and sustainable farming projects—including agroecological initiatives. Throughout Europe, as in many parts of the world, women have long been overlooked and underrepresented in farming and rural sectors. Many women-led practices go unnoticed, which not only limits their impact but also reinforces gender norms and inequalities.

Employing a transdisciplinary approach that combines foresight and case study methods, network-building, and policy benchmarking, the FLIARA project is developing practical tools and policy proposals to ensure women are supported within a more just and sustainable innovation ecosystem.

We hope you enjoy this month’s updates. If you have something you'd like us to feature in our next newsletter, feel free to email us at agrofutures@proton.me by the end of May.

Warmly,The AgroFutures Team

ACADEMIC ARTICLES

Cabrera Pacheco, A. J. (2025). Building biocultural territories in the solares of the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. In D. Morales, L. Sariego, & T. Teixeira (Eds.), Territorial Development in Latin America: Cultural, Economic and Environmental Dimensions (pp. 92–111). Routledge.https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032650241

Fadia Panosetti & Laurence Roudart (2024). Land struggle and Palestinian farmers’ livelihoods in the West Bank: between de-agrarianization and anti-colonial resistance.The Journal of Peasant Studies, 51(5), 1079–1101. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2023.2277748

 MEDIA ARTICLES

Challenging paradigms and reimagining futures: Reflections on Feminist Approaches to Agroecology from the Mahila Kisan Sammelan, India, By Arianna Tozi and Seema Kulkarni on  Undisciplined Environments

PODCASTS

EVENTS & TRAINING

Decolonising ScienceThis week-long PhD course aims to inspire doctoral candidates to critically engage with contemporary scholarship and debates on decolonisation and explore how it can enrich their research.Location: IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Dates: 14–18 July 2025, Application deadline: 15 June 2025, 23:59 (CET)More details and application info:https://www.un-ihe.org/courses/doctoral-education-course/decolonising-science

CALL FOR PAPERS

PUBLIC: Art | Culture | Ideas – Issue 73: "(Re)Mediating Soils" The call for papers is now open. The deadline to submit proposals has been extended to June 10, 2025. Full papers are due by September 20, 2025.

This issue invites contributions that engage with soil as a relational medium—ecological, cultural, historical, and political. It welcomes both scholarly and creative works and is tied to a multi-sited exhibition series exploring soil care and remediation across disciplines.

Submit your abstract or proposal here:https://publicjournal.ca/submit/