'Mujeres y Migraciones': Soil Sisters Podcast Episode produced by Rita Calvário

Rita Calvário, researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, produced the episode ‘Mujeres y Migraciones’ for the Soil Sisters podcast series, developed within the framework of the SWIFT project – Supporting Women-led Innovation in Farming Territories.

This episode asks several questions about the human rights of women migrant workers in agriculture and the ways in which agroecology and food sovereignty can help to transform oppressive power relations in European agriculture and rural areas. The discussion was organised by the SWIFT project during the Agroecological Congress in Viseu (Portugal) in September 2024 that brought together women migrant agricultural workers and representatives from peasant organisations and academia.

The conversation includes the voices of Rima Rabeya from Bangladesh who is a former intercultural mediator and agricultural sector worker in Odemira, an agricultural export enclave in the south of Portugal; Mery Ann Garling, farmer and social worker from Chile, settled in Euskadi for 17 years and founder of the bicultural project Pewma and member of the peasant union EHNE-Bizkaia; and Conchi Mogo Alonso, activist from the Sindicato Labrego Galego-Comisións Labregas (SLG-CCLL) and member of the Migration and Rural Labour Working Group of the European Coordination Via Campesina since 2021. Each of these speakers shares their stories and struggles in different agricultural and rural contexts and discuss insights into agroecology and food sovereignty as pathways to justice and resistance.

Listen to 'Mujeres y Migraciones' Podcast Episode here

Soil Sisters podcast series available here