This project aims to give visibility to the leadership and experiences of rural women in their struggles for food justice and gender equality, especially women producers involved in agroecology and collective projects or movements.

Using oral history, the study will collect testimonies from rural women in Portugal, Galicia and the Basque Country, with a focus on territories characterised by small-scale and family farming.

The project’s main objectives are:

1) To emphasise the essential role of women in small-scale farming and innovative agri-food projects, highlighting their contributions to building more equitable and sustainable food systems and rural areas.

2) To evidence the strategies that rural women employ to overcome the structural barriers they face and how they articulate alternative visions for the future of food and the rural world.

3) To incorporate a feminist approach and its perspectives into the debate on food system transformations.

This page is intended to disseminate the results of the project and, above all, to amplify the voices of these women by sharing their life stories and perspectives in written and audiovisual format.