Date: Thursday 15 October, 10.00–12.30
Location: Aurora B 9216, Wageningen University & Research
How can research and policy better recognise diverse rural and agricultural women’s identities, agency and perspectives on innovation and entrepreneurship?
On Thursday 15 October, Wageningen University & Research will host the interactive and interdisciplinary colloquium Diverse Rural Identities and Politics of Belonging: Innovation, Intersections, and Entrepreneurship in Rural and Agricultural Territories.
The session is organised in the context of the International Year of the Woman Farmer and Rural Women’s Day.
Women-led innovation and entrepreneurship
International research projects on women-led innovation and entrepreneurship in agriculture and rural areas that were recently finalised provide the starting point for the session.
These projects provide ample evidence of women’s own notions and agency around innovation and entrepreneurship. Covering diverse geographical contexts across the globe, they also show how research and policy can better do justice to these perspectives.
The EU projects Grass Ceiling: Gender Equality in Rural and Agricultural Innovation Systems and SWIFT: Supporting Women-led Innovation in Farming Territories, together with the INREF project FermFood, will form the basis for the discussion.
The projects were conducted at Wageningen University & Research, with Bettina Bock, Valentina Materia and Jessica Duncan in the lead.
An interactive session
Following brief presentations of the most striking takeaways from these international projects, the session will move into an interactive group-work set-up.
Participants joining in person will work in groups, while online participants will join through breakout rooms. Together, they will exchange insights and perspectives on new avenues for research and policy to better embed diverse rural and agricultural women’s identities.
Four main questions will kick off the discussions:
- What from your research or practice resonates or dissonates with the presented takeaways?
- What accordingly needs to be added or changed in mainstream concepts of innovation and entrepreneurship to better include women’s notions and agency?
- What might be the underlying root causes to address, and what research or policy can help to leverage these?
- What ways forward do you see to collaborate and tackle these issues in research and/or policymaking?
Practical information
Date: Thursday 15 October
Time: 10.00–12.30
Location: Aurora B 9216, Wageningen University & Research
Participation: Free and open to all interested
We prefer participation in person. An online link will mainly be available for participants joining from abroad.
Please register for updates, further details and a calendar invitation via this link.
Further details will be shared with those who register.
Please feel free to forward this invitation to anyone who might be interested.
