On the occasion of International Women’s Day, CIDSE and the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) from Coventry University launch a podcast mini-series of 3 episodes exploring feminist agroecology. 

As part of its advocacy and storytelling around agroecology, CIDSE has highlighted how its social and cultural dimension, including a feminist perspective, is a vital ingredient for its success.  

A previous collaboration between CIDSE and CAWR resulted in the publication of a special issue of The Farming Matters Magazine “Feminism and agroecology: transforming economy and society”. This brought to the forefront how perspectives such as intersectional feminism and indigenous cosmologies coupled with agroecology have been transforming our economy and society.  In this podcast we continue deepening these linkages and ask the questions:Why is agroecology not possible without feminism? What does feminism have to do with the food we eat?  

Throughout the podcast mini-series, activists, researchers and practitioners who dedicate their lives to feminism and agroecology share how women (and others) are invisibly sustaining the food system, what it means to place ‘life’, rather than profit, in the centre of the food system, and what food systems would look like if they were based on feminist values.  

We explore how the oppression of women forms part of systemic oppression against anyone who falls out of the white, heterosexual, cis-male box, what decolonial and indigenous feminisms offer to the agroecology movement, and how to strengthen that movement from a feminist perspective.  

The first episode, titled: “What does feminism have to do with the food you eat?”, explores what food systems would look like if they were based on feminist values.