Wars, genocides, and armed conflicts are escalating with impunity across many regions, fuelling brutality, hunger, rape, and the destruction of health systems, while contaminating the environment. Our territories are being used as testing grounds for transnational military and technology corporations.

These conflicts are reshaping agriculture and trade policies in ways that undermine food sovereignty. Military and agricultural technologies are increasingly intertwined. Food is used as a weapon of war.

In this session we make space for grief, for fear, for anger and for care. We will identify practices and actions to advance international solidarity and justice, and pathways to hold perpetrators to account.

An agroecological food system expands beyond production — other steps in the food chain face similar vulnerabilities. Initiatives under the umbrella of social and solidarity economy address exchanges and the construction of value beyond capitalist market exchange.

Reciprocity, gifts, and non-monetary exchanges are practices that enable the reproduction of life and socio-biodiversity — cuttings, seeds, food — alongside self-sufficiency and markets in all their diversity: embedded markets, co-construction of supply and demand, short supply chains, and more.

Generational renewal is essential for food sovereignty, the continued existence of rural areas, and the environmental and social value farmers create. Young farmers, particularly non-cis-male farmers, face specific barriers such as recognition, access to land, financial services, and the need for formal certification and training.

The lack of appropriate rural infrastructure and deep-rooted issues regarding farm succession and pension schemes hinder generational renewal. This session will facilitate a discussion around the needs of young farmers and how to ensure that these spaces are liveable and inclusive.

Across the world, agrifood systems increasingly run on migrant labour. Industrial agriculture is upheld by racialised and gendered hierarchies, violent labour regimes, and migration policies that produce precarity while silencing those who feed our communities.

Migrant peasant women often remain invisible and are highly precarious due to restricted rights and structural discrimination. Yet migrant women also resist through everyday acts of care, mutual support, collective organising, and struggles for dignity, justice, and food sovereignty.

We invite contributions that centre migrant women's lived experiences as farmworkers, peasants, and rural inhabitants — engaging with exploitative labour regimes, conditions of social reproduction, gender-based violence, and strategies of resistance grounded in anti-racism and intersectionality.

People in the LGBTIQ+ community and within a gender spectrum beyond binary identities are part of rural and farming spaces, but are often invisibilised and struggle with intersecting discrimination, creating specific barriers to farming.

Heteropatriarchy is a central force negatively affecting LGBTIQ+ farmers' well-being. They face challenges that reflect systemic oppression — especially in profitability, land access, health insurance, and affordable housing.

At the same time, queer farmers turn to each other for support in navigating the heteropatriarchal landscape of agriculture, very often through LGBTIQ+ farm mentors or peers. A feminist perspective on agroecology includes diverse gender identities and the struggle to recognise all types of diversities in farming.

Farm work faces many challenges, including specific technical needs of small-scale and women farmers which are rarely recognised. Many challenges are linked to the variety of unpaid and invisible labour — socio-environmental care work and community work — very often carried out by women.

Making visible this unpaid work, recognising and valuing its centrality, and developing strategies to share and democratise it are central to this session. Technical solutions developed to improve working conditions will also be discussed, alongside the theoretical debate around the meanings of care in food systems and agroecological transition.

Rural services within the feminist debate on shared responsibility for care — between family, community, the state through public policies, and the market — and the sexual division of care work across these spheres.

This includes aspects of farm viability and connects with the privatisation of services, property, and austerity measures that disproportionately affect women and groups dependent on public services. The role of social security, public and community infrastructures, and the potential of universal basic income and collective forms of care will be explored.

Agricultural and rural policies consistently fail to address the diverse forms of discrimination that restrict full participation. Existing frameworks reinforce patriarchal, colonial, racial, and heteronormative norms, reproducing privileged access to agricultural spaces.

This workshop will make visible how popular and agrarian feminist movements are reclaiming narratives, advancing transgressive practices, and designing or resisting policies that reconfigure power and access to resources. Central to this session is a collective analysis of 'windows of opportunity' to reform existing public policies, exploring intersections with UNDROP, CEDAW, and other human-rights frameworks.

Climate change is impacting our agricultural and food systems. Changes in temperature, rain patterns, and extremes reduce yields, animal well-being, and fish distribution. New plant and animal diseases appear, and pollinators are disoriented.

Small-scale farmers, pastoralists, artisanal fisherfolk, and poor communities are the most affected — but they also develop community strategies to face the impacts. We will share experiences and knowledge created by people to challenge the impacts of climate change through collective resources.

In many contexts, individual and private forms of agricultural land tenure have replaced collective and communal ways of producing food and processes of social and ecological care. Agrarian social movements and feminist researchers have called for the reclamation of the commons as a step towards more caring and equitable food systems.

Contributions to this topic look at new approaches to collective forms of property and their potential for increasing the inclusivity of farming — for migrants, young people, women, queer and LGBTIQ+ persons — as well as the ways they might resolve contradictions between food production and care for people and the environment.