Gender-Responsive Policies
This space is dedicated to exploring how public policies and budgets can be transformed to better support Initiatives for Feminist Agroecological Futures and advance structural change in food systems. Building on SWIFT project research, this section highlights how policies can be made more responsive to the needs, contributions, and rights of women in agriculture and rural communities. Here, you’ll find policy briefs, analysis of gendered power relations, and examples of how feminist economic principles can be applied to public budgeting. Resources include insights into how care, food, and environmental justice intersect, as well as tools for advocacy, legal reform, and policy co-creation. This page is designed for policymakers, activists, researchers, and local actors who want to understand and shape gender-just transitions through meaningful policy engagement.
Raising Awareness: Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Agricultural Policies
This discussion brings together farmers, civil society representatives, and national, EU and international policy actors to exchange perspectives on how Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) can help create more inclusive and equitable agricultural policies.
The session raises awareness of the importance of integrating gender considerations into agricultural budgets and policy design, while highlighting experiences and challenges of farmers and policymakers and leaves space for dialogue and discussion between different actors on how gender responsive budgeting can improve the position of women farmers in the agrifood chain.
Speakers: Louise Legein (OXFAM); Elena Schubert (DG-AGRI B.3, Unit for social sustainability); Tania Lucia Benito (Ministero español de agricultura, pesca y alimentación); Kirstin Eckstein, farmer in Austria (OBV – Osterreichischer Bergbauernverein, member of ECVC); Facilitation: Jessica Duncan, Rural Sociology Group, Wageningen University
