Rural Sociology Group
Wageningen University
Hollandseweg 1
6706 KN Wageningen
The Netherlands
office.rso@wur.nl

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement:
101084561 – SWIFT- HORIZON-CL6-2022-COMMUNITIES-01

Check out our website here
https://swiftproject.eu

WHO WE ARE
We are a network of scholars, farmers, movements, and practitioners dedicated to secure more equitable farming futures. This network consolidated around the EU-funded SWIFT Project. SWIFT stands for Supporting Women-Led Innovations in Farming and Rural Territories.

INTRO TO WIDER GROUP
This online tool has been designed to make visible the realities of EU agriculture when it comes to a just transformation.
The data and stories collected here are grounded in research and diverse experiences.

Making use policy levers, the website integrates facts, analysis, lived experience, strategies and evaluation tools to support advocacy at the local, national and EU levels. Designed for social movements, NGOs, researchers and policy makers, this website supports the efforts to advocate for policies that actively address structural inequalities in agri-food and rural systems.

INTRO TO AGROECOLOGY
Peasant agroecology is a way of life that supports life-enriching systems, while opposing life-alienating systems.
Ecologically, it works together with nature and not against it. It cherishes synergies between living beings and prioritizes traditional farmer knowledge and participatory, transgenerational, and experiential learning processes.

Economically it bases its principles on forms of economy that are truly beneficial for communities: solidarity, circular, regional, within ecological boundaries.
Politically it places the small-scale food producers rights as a priority on the agenda and we form a movement towards equality and social justice for all people worldwide

(source: https://www.eurovia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Agroecology_EN.pdf)