Women and Gender in Development Virtual Conference 2021
OUT OF THE THEORY & INTO THE FIELD: A DIALOGUE ON GENDERED APPROACHES TO INCLUSIVE RURAL DEVELOPMENT
FEBRUARY 23 - 26, 2021
conference overview
WGD Conf 2021 looked different than it did in 2019. Due to the ongoing impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 Women and Gender in International Development Conference hosted by Virginia Tech transitioned to a fully virual event.
WGD Conf 2021 created an environment where students, early career faculty, practitioners, and extension professionals were able to learn from gender experts and international agriculture experts promoting inclusive agriculture and rural development. It included two days of asynchronous, pre-event material and networking and an optional workshop, and two amd half days of synchronous programming. It providede numerous opportunities for attendees to participate and network.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM WGD CONF 2021
2021 WGD Conference Program & Recordings
Gender transformative food systems: Addressing structural and institutional barriers to gender equality in food systems
Dr. Jemimah Njuki, Africa Director, International Food Policy Research Institute
Feminist food justice: Overcoming intersectional inequities in U.S. and international food systems
Dr. Carolyn Sachs, Professor Emerita of Rural Sociology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Pennsylvania State University
Panels
Food systems crisis: Strengthening gender equality and resiliency
Dr. Hazel Malapit, Senior Research Coordinator, The Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Dr. Mary Peabody, Community Economic Development Specialist, University of Vermont (UVM) Extension, and founding director of Women's Ag Network (WAgN) and the UVM Extension New Farmer project
Moderator: Cristina Manfre, M.Sc., Global Gender Director, TechnoServe
Masculinities and engaging men in conversations on gender equality and women’s empowerment
Dr. Gary Barker, President and CEO, Promundo U.S.
Laxman Belbase, M.Sc., Global Co-Director, MenEngage
Moderator: Daniel Sumner, M.Sc., Assistant Director, Women and Gender in International Development at the Center for International Research, Education and Development, Virginia Tech
Women, land, and power: How does gender intersect with agricultural decision-making in the U.S.?
Dr. Angie Carter, Assistant Professor, Environmental/Energy Justice, Michigan Tech
Dr. Gabrielle Roesch-McNally, Director, Women for the Land Initiative, American Farmland Trust
Moderator: Kaitlyn Spangler, M.Sc., Presidential Doctoral Research Fellow, Environment and Society Dept., Utah State University
The colonial development experiment nexus and its gender, race and class impacts in the Caribbean
Dr. Tami Navarro, Associate Director, Barnard Center for Research on Women
Dr. Halimah Deshong, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Permanent Mission of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) to the United Nations, and Head of the Institute for Gender & Development Studies: Nita Barrow Unit, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus
Moderator: Dr. Andrea Baldwin, Assistant Professor, Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies programs, Department of Sociology Virginia Tech
Concurrent Conversations
Mentoring/Careers Conversation
Dr. Amanda Crump, Assistant Professor of Teaching in International Agricultural Development, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis
Dr. Halimah DeShong, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Permanent Mission of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) to the United Nations, and Head of the Institute for Gender & Development Studies: Nita Barrow Unit, at The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus
Beth Holtzman, MPA, Coordinator of the University of Vermont Extension New Farmer Project and Women’s Agricultural Network (WAgN)
Dr. Batamaka Somé, anthropologist, farm entrepreneur and research consultant based in Burkina Faso, and West Africa Regional Representative of the McKnight Foundation’s Collaborative Crop Research Program
Daniel Sumner, M.Sc., Assistant Director, Women & Gender in International Development, Center for International Research, Education & Development, Virginia Tech
Laura Zseleczky, MPA, Communications Specialist, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish, Mississippi State University
Moderator: Dr. Donna Westfall-Rudd, Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech
Big Questions Conversations
Dr. Deborah Rubin, Co-Director, Cultural Practice, LLC
4 Minute Student Flashtalks
Women and Sustainable Timber Management:
Shifting Roles from Assigned Cook to Strategic Decision-maker
Ana Violato Espada, University of Florida
Rest Day and Women Domestic Worker's Wellbeing: Evidence from Indonesian Domestic Workers in Hong Kong
Fikriyah Winata, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
More than a Selfie:
How self-portraits through Photovoice Methodology Indicated Incidents of Independence
Jessica Rae Spence, Texas A&M University
Women Empowerment: Reflections from Microfinance-based Field Inferences in India
Ruchi Upadhyay, University of Gujarat
Gender and Decision-making: Quinoa Production among Indigenous Women in Rural Ecuador
Sumac Cardenas Oleas, Iowa State Univesity
World Café
Improving our own Practices: A Critical Reflection of Fieldwork
Dr. Mary T. Rodriquez, Ohio State University
Towards More Gender-responsive Agricultural Research: Lessons Learned in Implementing Programs to Empower Young Women in Agricultural Sciences
Carmen Benson, Grain Research and Innovation (GRAIN)
Using Skits to Encourage Male Engagement in Exclusive Breast Feeding in Mozambique
Dr. Sofia Costa, Universidade Lúrio, Mozambique
From Intentions to Outcomes: How to Ensure that Agricultural Development Projects Empower Women?
Dr. Hazel Malapit, CGIAR Gender Platform
Our Development, Our Right: A Gender Approach Towards Adolescent Girls Development in Blantyre and Chikwawa
Judith Pangani, Centre for Alternatives for Victimized Women and Children (CAVWOC)
A Time-use Study: An Unexpected Opportunity to Address Gender-Based Violence
Abigail Spangler, ACDI/VOCA
Workshops
Positive youth development in Senegal: Growing the next generation of more inclusive agriculture
Bineta Guisse, M.Sc, National Director, Feed the Future Senegal Youth in Agriculture
Dr. Thomas Archibald, Associate Professor, Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education, Virginia Tech; Director, Feed the Future Senegal Youth in Agriculture
Fatimata Kane, PhD Student, Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education, Virginia Tech
Gender and Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning - Data needs for documenting the gendered impacts
Dr. Jennifer Himmelstein, Corporate Analyst, ACDI/VOCA
Daniel Sumner, M.Sc., Assistant Director, Women & Gender in International Development, Center for International Research, Education & Development, Virginia Tech
Bringing theory and the field into the college classroom: Developing gender-forward curricula
Dr. Amanda Crump, Assistant Professor of Teaching in International Agricultural Development, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis
Dr. Leif Jensen, Distinguished Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Pennsylvania State University
Silence is not always golden: Reciprocal peer interviews as a method to engage vulnerable populations in discussion on sensitive topics
Dr. Rebecca Williams, Assistant Research Scientist, Human and Institutional Capacity Development, Office for Global Research Engagement & Livestock Systems Innovation Laboratory, University of Florida
