NOVEMBER 2025
Dear Network Members,
This month we are excited to highlight two activities which the FAN organising team has been involved in. The first is a new paper published in the Journal of Agrarian Change titled The Ambiguous Ecologies of Agri-Alternatives: Exploring the Calculus of Social Reproduction. The paper explores the ambivalent and zig-zagged ways in which farmers in rural India engage with alternative farming in their fields and how these seeming contradictions might be understood through the lens of social reproduction. Following on from the arguments advanced in the paper, some of us will be organising a panel at POLLEN 26 in Barcelona on the theme Deromanticising Agroecology. You can find more on the conference, CfP and how to submit a paper here.
We hope you will enjoy the newsletter!
Warmly,
The AgroFutures Team
ACADEMIC ARTICLES
Pandey, P., & Cabral, L. (2025). Transformational Agroecology: The Making and Unmaking of Zero Budget Natural Farming in India. Science, Technology and Society, 30(2), 259-278. https://doi.org/10.1177/09717218251326835
Mincytė, D., Bartkienė, A., Bikauskaitė, R. et al. What does it mean to care in industrial agriculture?. Agric Hum Values 42, 1347–1359 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-025-10709-0
MEDIA ARTICLES
An article published on The Migrations Story speaks to the ways in which rain-fed farming in Karnataka, India is quietly disappearing as large-scale solar parks replace traditional agriculture, exposing the growing precarity of farmers and rural livelihoods amid neglect and climate uncertainty.
The recent article Reviving the Serengeti: How Maasai Women’s Dairy Initiatives Protect Wildlife and Communities by David Blanton explores the efforts by Maasai educator and conservationist Meyasi Meshilieck to establish a new initiative that engages women in sustainable dairy farming amidst complex anthropogenic and environmental change in the Serengeti.
STUDENTSHIP & GRANTS
An exciting new PhD (fully funded) has been announced as a collaboration between the London School of Economics and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew on Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century. The PhD offers the opportunity to investigate the interconnections between science at Kew, industry and empire in the mid twentieth century. More info here. Closing date is 14 January 2026. Informal enquiries can be sent to k.paprocki@lse.ac.uk and m.nesbitt@kew.org
CALLS FOR PAPERS
Call for contribution on Gender and Development Journal on the theme: Community-led resistances and responses to climate crises. Guest editors: Dr. Katie McQuaid, Dr. Dewi Candraningrum, Dr. Seema Arora-Jonsson, and Dr. Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt. The call invites a range of voices from Indigenous scholars and practitioners; rural and urban grassroots leaders; women’s rights and human rights activists; civil society organisations to share case studies and practice-based recommendations on climate justice and solutions. To submit an abstract use the google form link here: Deadline: 22 October 2025, 11:59pm UTC
The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology has a Call for Special Issue Proposals Editors: Natalia Buitron and Liana Chua While not specifically focussed on feminist research and agroecology, this might be of interest to FAN members who would like to publish ethnographic research on a variety of topics. More information here. Proposals should be sent to the editors, Natalia Buitron and Liana Chua at cja@socanth.cam.ac.uk, by no later than 24th November 2025.
EVENTS & TRAINING
POLLEN 2026 CfP is now open and you can submit abstracts via their online portal. https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/programme/. The Conference will take place in Barcelona 29 June to 3 July 2026. The deadline for abstract submission is December 5th.
An interdisciplinary winter school on Media ecologies and the politics of representation": at the University of Milano Bicocca, from January 26-30, 2026. Application Deadline November 20, 2025 Application and details are here