Seeds of Change: Annual Scientific Conference 2019

Seeds of Change participants Photo: Patrick Cape/ACIAR.

In 2019, the Annual Scientific Conference and Capacity Development Workshop took a different approach with the ‘Seeds of Change‘ Conference.

This conference, jointly funded by the Australia­­­n Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research and University of Canberra took place on April 2-4, 2019 in Canberra, Australia (with various side meetings before and after the conference).

This event was an interdisciplinary conference for researchers and practitioners in all fields of agriculture (including food/commodity/cash crops, subsistence/semi-subsistence sectors, supply chains, forestry, fisheries, and water management).

Photo: Patrick Cape/ACIAR.

Conference themes

The following six themes featured in the Seeds of Change conference:

  1. Gender and Equity for Nutritious and Healthy Food Systems
  2. Gender, Agricultural Productivity and Rural Transformation
  3. Cultivating Equality: Bringing Evidence from the Field to Close the Agricultural Gender Gap
  4. Men, Masculinity and Changing Rural Economies
  5. Labour and Production Relations
  6. Gender Integration in Agri-food Systems Research for Development

More information?

For more information about scholarships, invited speakers, program, organizing team, venue etc. go to: https://www.canberra.edu.au/research/faculty-research-centres/aisc/seeds-of-change

Conference outputs

You can also find some additional links, outputs, information on the ACIAR gender portal: https://co-lab.aciar.gov.au/seedsofchange/

Presentations