195th EAAE Seminar

Gender Mainstreaming
and Women's Empowerment
in Agriculture

European Perspectives and Global Challenges

Date October 15–16, 2026
Location Angevin Castle, Gaeta, Italy
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EAAE CREA University of Cassino and Southern Lazio University of Naples Federico II University of Milan Università di Pavia Rete PAC
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About the Seminar

Bridging Gender Gaps
in Global Agriculture

The seminar aims to bring together researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to discuss how gender perspectives can be effectively integrated into agricultural policies and rural development strategies.

In Europe, fewer than 30% of farms are managed by women, while gender disparities remain even wider in many low- and middle-income countries.

Gender equality in agriculture is widely recognized as a key priority by international organizations such as FAO, IFAD, UN Women, and the OECD. Evidence suggests that closing gender gaps in access to productive resources and opportunities could significantly enhance agricultural productivity and contribute to global food security.

According to FAO estimates, if women had the same access to productive resources as men, agricultural productivity could increase substantially, contributing to the achievement of several Sustainable Development Goals, including SDG 2 (Zero Hunger), SDG 5 (Gender Equality), and SDG 13 (Climate Action).

This EAAE seminar fosters dialogue, knowledge exchange, and policy recommendations for more inclusive and sustainable agricultural systems.

SDG 2 - Zero Hunger SDG 5 - Gender Equality SDG 13 - Climate Action
Castello Angioino-Aragonese di Gaeta - Vista panoramica
Castello Angioino-Aragonese di Gaeta - Dettaglio
Gaeta, Italy

The Angevin Castle

Castello Angioino-Aragonese

A medieval fortress rising above the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Angevin-Aragonese Castle of Gaeta has stood as a symbol of power and culture since the 6th century. Located on a dramatic promontory between Rome and Naples, it offers breathtaking views over the Gulf of Gaeta and provides an inspiring setting for our academic exchange.

6th century origins
Tyrrhenian Sea coast
Lazio Region

Photo: Pietro / Sers1001 — Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Goals

Seminar Objectives

Six key goals driving the academic exchange and policy dialogue

01

Evidence-Based Analysis

Provide evidence-based analyses of gender gaps in agriculture

02

Global Challenges

Examine global and regional challenges in advancing gender equality

03

Policy Integration

Strengthen links between European policies and international frameworks

04

Best Practices

Showcase successful practices and replicable models supporting empowerment

05

Scientific Dialogue

Facilitate scientific dialogue among scholars and international stakeholders

06

Policy Recommendations

Develop policy recommendations for gender-sensitive agricultural policies

Call for Papers

Topics of Interest

Contributions (empirical, theoretical, or policy-oriented) are invited on topics including, but not limited to:

01

Gender Mainstreaming in Agricultural Policies

  • Gender integration in the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
  • Policy tools for gender-sensitive agricultural development
02

Access and Agency

  • Women's Leadership and Decision-Making
  • Participation in governance processes, agricultural institutions, and rural ecosystems
  • Gender equality in agricultural and rural organizations
03

Green Transition and Climate Resilience

  • Women's role in sustainable innovation and climate-smart agriculture
  • Gender perspectives in environmental and climate policies
04

Migration, Integration and Rural Multifunctionality

  • Women in migration and rural and agricultural integration processes
  • The role of rural women in strengthening multifunctional agricultural systems

Mark Your Calendar

Important Dates

Jun 30 2026

Abstract Submission Deadline

Jul 31 2026

Notification of Acceptance

Jul 31 2026

Early Bird Registration Deadline

Oct 01 2026

Final Registration Deadline

Oct 15-16 2026

Seminar at The Angevin Castle

Schedule

Programme

Day 1

Thursday, October 15th

12:00 – 14:30
Social

Registration Opening & Welcome Lunch

14:30 – 15:00
Plenary

Welcoming Address

  • Marco Dell'Isola, Rector of the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio
  • Raffaele Trequattrini, Head of the Department of Economics and Law, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio
  • Paolo Scockai, President of the European Association of Agricultural Economists
  • Stefano Corsi, University of Milan
  • Laura Bassolino, Scientific Council of CREA
  • Presidents of the women's branches of the professional agricultural organizations: Donne in campo – CIA, Confagricoltura Donna, Donne Coldiretti
15:00 – 16:30
Plenary

Plenary Session 1

Chair: Carlo Russo

"Women in agriculture: reflections and future directions"
Sally Shortall - Newcastle University


"How to promote women-led sustainability innovations in the domains of agriculture and rural areas?"
Tuomas Kuhmonen, University of Turku

16:30 – 17:00

Coffee Break

17:00 – 18:30
Parallel

Parallel Sessions 1

S1 · Women's Empowerment, Leadership and Governance in Agriculture · Room TBA S2 · Agricultural Policy and Rural Development · Room TBA S3 · Labour, Economic Outcomes and Farm Performance · Room TBA S4 · Innovation, Climate, Health and Society · Room TBA
18:30 – 18:45

Wrap-up Session

19:30
Social

Social Dinner

Restaurant "Re Ferdinando II", Gaeta

Day 2

Friday, October 16th

09:00 – 10:30
Parallel

Parallel Sessions 2

S1 · Women's Empowerment, Leadership and Governance in Agriculture · Room TBA S2 · Agricultural Policy and Rural Development · Room TBA S3 · Labour, Economic Outcomes and Farm Performance · Room TBA S4 · Innovation, Climate, Health and Society · Room TBA
10:30 – 10:45

Wrap-up Session

10:45 – 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30
Plenary

Plenary Session 2 – Roundtable

"Enabling Women’s Leadership Ecosystems in the Farming Sector"

Chair: Maria Sassi

  • Pina Terenzi, Farmer and wine producer
  • Silvia Sivini, University of Calabria
  • Elena Schubert, Equality Coordinator, DG Agriculture and Rural Development – Team Leader, Unit for Social Issues
  • Natalia Lupi, World Farmers Organisation
12:30 – 14:00
Social

Farewell Lunch at the Castle

14:00 – 15:00
Social

Guided Visit of the Castle

Parallel Sessions

Four thematic tracks, two days

Each track runs on both days (Thursday 17:00 – 18:30 and Friday 09:00 – 10:30). Expand a day to see the papers presented.

Session 1

Women's Empowerment, Leadership and Governance in Agriculture

10 papers
Day 1 Thursday, Oct 15 · 17:00 – 18:30 · Room TBA Chair: Roberto Henke
  1. Cultivating Equality: A Multi-Dimensional Framework to Measure Women's Leadership in Italian AgricultureSermoneta, Colomba; Coccia, Caterina
  2. Measuring women's empowerment in high-income agricultural contexts: the process of adapting WEAI to SwitzerlandOccelli, Martina; Heepen, Celestina; Kammer, Marie; Meemken, Eva-Marie
  3. Do Producer Organizations empower women in agriculture? Evidence from Italian olive farmsTamborrino, Camilla; Biagini, Luigi; Cacchiarelli, Luca; Pupo D'Andrea, Maria Rosaria; Henke, Roberto; Severini, Simone
  4. Women’s Leadership in Rural Transformation: Distributed Agency and Ecosystem Governance in a Mediterranean Living LabOlivieri, Giuseppina; Annosi, Maria Carmela; De Rosa, Marcello; Del Giudice, Teresa
  5. Do Biodistricts promote women's empowerment in agriculture? Evidence from ItalyPomponi, Tommaso; Sturla, Alberto; Zumpano, Catia; Cardillo, Concetta; Henke, Roberto
Day 2 Friday, Oct 16 · 09:00 – 10:30 · Room TBA Chair: Maria Teresa Trentinaglia
  1. From the reclamation of the Agro Pontino to multifunctional agriculture: the role of women in regional developmentPergamo, Raffaella; Pastorelli, Giulia; Sarcina, Paola; Briguglio, Tiziana
  2. Gendered Pathways of Agricultural Innovation in Rural Communities: Evidence from a Bioeconomy Transition Region in GreecePaltaki, Aikaterini; Charatsari, Chrysanthi; Loizou, Efstratios; Michailidis, Anastasios
  3. “From dawn to dusk”: the Everyday Lives of Women Farmers in open-city marketsPartalidou, Maria; Boura, Nektaria
  4. Empowering women farmers through sustainable business modelsCardillo, Concetta; Bartoli, Luca; De Rosa, Marcello; Pagnani, Tiziana; Perito, Maria Angela
  5. What contributes to female management in agriculture? Evidence from Lombardy farmsTrentinaglia, Maria Teresa; Bertoni, Danilo; Cavicchioli, Daniele
Session 2

Agricultural Policy and Rural Development

10 papers
Day 1 Thursday, Oct 15 · 17:00 – 18:30 · Room TBA Chair: Maria Angela Perito
  1. Operationalizing Gender Equity in Agriculture: Lessons from the Global South for European Policy and PracticeBeuchelt, Tina
  2. Competitive Productive Empowerment: A Standardized Framework for Integrating Rural Women into Agricultural Value Chains in EgyptAbdelaal, Elham; Allam, Effat; Abu Ahmed, Wageeh; Mostafa, Mohamed
  3. Beyond inclusion? Women’s labour, traditional knowledge, and the politics of empowerment in rural MoroccoVercelli, Monica; Sacchi, Giovanna; Bouharroud, Rachid; Ait Aabd, Naima; Baghadi, Mohamed; Novelli, Silvia
  4. Women in Agriculture and Water Decision-Making as Levers for an Effective and Sustainable Water GovernanceBaralla, Silvia; Stefani, Serena; Zucaro, Raffaella
  5. Gendered governance perspectives in Italian Food Districts: evidence from territorial development stakeholdersBriamonte, Lucia; Russo Spena, Anna; Del Giudice, Teresa; Chiappini, Silvia
Day 2 Friday, Oct 16 · 09:00 – 10:30 · Room TBA Chair: Barbara Forcina
  1. Integrating Gender in Agricultural Research: The Case of TWIN-IN ProjectCharatsari, Chrysanthi; De Rosa, Marcello; Rogg Korsvik, Trine; Lioutas, Evagelos; Pagnani, Tiziana; Bartoli, Luca; Michailidis, Anastasios
  2. Gender Mainstreaming in German Agricultural PolicyRaue, Petra; von Davier, Zazie
  3. Women Entrepreneurs and Gender Mainstreaming under the CAP: Evidence from Italian Agri-food Value ChainsTudini, Lucia; Valentino, Graziella
  4. Evaluating gender equality in the implementation of the German CAP Strategic PlanFynn, Lynn-Livia; Pollermann, Kim
  5. Moving from Cross-Cutting Principle to Action: Gender in the CAP 2023–2027 between rhetoric and substantive changeDel Prete, Annalisa; Forcina, Barbara; Russo Spena, Anna; Zumpano, Catia
Session 3

Labour, Economic Outcomes and Farm Performance

10 papers
Day 1 Thursday, Oct 15 · 17:00 – 18:30 · Room TBA Chair: Stefano Corsi
  1. The Feminization of Agro-industrial Labour and the Transformation of Household Subsistence Systems in MexicoMartin Villar, Sandra
  2. Gender Pay Gap in High-Income Agriculture: Evidence and Policy Implications from the Swiss Gender Pay GapHeepen, Celestina; Van den Broeck, Goedele; Meemken, Eva-Marie
  3. What determines the gender gap in agricultural income in Germany? Evidence from farm accountancy dataHansen Gellert, Rebecca; Hansen, Heiko; Börgen, Inga; von Davier, Zazie; Neuenfeldt, Sebastian
  4. Foreign female workers in the dynamics of salaried agricultural employmentMacrì, Maria Carmela
  5. Who Works Italian Farms? Gender, Migrant Status, and Arrangement-Based Labour Segregation in Italian AgricultureVuciterna, Rina; Corsi, Stefano
Day 2 Friday, Oct 16 · 09:00 – 10:30 · Room TBA Chair: Maria Sassi
  1. “We discuss, he decides”: Gendered intra-household decision-making on sorghum farming in Kenya’s Lake Victoria regionMutuku, Kennedy; Peddi, Branwen; Mbinya, Romana; Orinda, Mary; Slosse, Wannes; Speelman, Stijn; D’Haese, Marijke
  2. Gender dynamics and remittances in the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices in NepalKandel, Giri Prasad; Madaki, Mustapha Yakubu; Pilarova, Tereza; Ullah, Ayat; Pradhan, Prajal; Manikas, Ioannis; Bavorova, Miroslava
  3. Manager/CEO Gender and Export Performance of Russian Wheat-Exporting FirmsMelkadze, Ketevan; Götz, Linde; Svanidze, Miranda; Jaghdani, Tinoush
  4. Determinants of Gender Gaps in Maize Productivity and Revenue in Eastern UgandaMiehe, Caroline; Prati, Emma; De, Anusha
  5. Estimating the Association Between Female Farmers’ Time Allocation and Their Households’ Dietary Diversity in South SudanSassi, Maria
Session 4

Innovation, Climate, Health and Society

10 papers
Day 1 Thursday, Oct 15 · 17:00 – 18:30 · Room TBA Chair: Linde Götz
  1. Who Cares for the Caregivers? Gendered Mental Health Vulnerabilities, Informal Care Work, and Help-Seeking Stigma in Italian AgriculturePagnani, Tiziana; Mancuso, Teresina; De Rosa, Marcello
  2. Gendered Rural Wellbeing: Women Agricultural Entrepreneurs, Social Services and Mental Health Vulnerability in Italian Rural AreasBorsotto, Patrizia; Basset, Francesco; Giordani, Giorgia; Muscas, Fabio; Giarè, Francesca
  3. Farm labour positions, stressor profiles and burnout symptoms among women in German agricultureNiens, Christine; von Davier, Zazie; Curtiss, Jarmila
  4. The relationship between social capital, participation in short food supply chains, and farm economic performance. Does gender matter?Stępień, Sebastian; Guth, Marta
  5. The Gender of Consumer Acceptance: Scientific vs. Narrative Information Formats in Agrifood BiotechnologyGötz, Linde; Svanidze, Miranda; Rahmani, Djamel; Gil Roig, José María
Day 2 Friday, Oct 16 · 09:00 – 10:30 · Room TBA Chair: Giovanna Sacchi
  1. Does Artificial Intelligence Leave Women Behind? Gender-Differentiated Effects of AI Adoption on Climate Resilience in Smallholder Agriculture: Evidence from Indonesia and PakistanJunejo, Safiullah; Haidari, Adila
  2. Women-led Agroecological Innovations for Climate Resilience: Evidence from the AgrEcoMed ProjectAscani, Michela; D’oronzio, Maria Assunta; Briamonte, Lucia; De Luca, Diego; Ricciardi, Domenica; Selvaggi, Giuseppina; Zanetti, Barbara
  3. Who Will Farm Tomorrow? Climate Uncertainty, Intergenerational Succession, and Gender in Iranian Paddy HouseholdsAhmadivostakolaei, Mitra; Cavicchioli, Daniele; Goli, Imaneh
  4. Analysis of consumers’ perception and response to gender diversity in viti-vinicultureGallais, Alicia; Livat, Florine; Vecchio, Riccardo
  5. The 10,000-year knowledge under threat: women, agriculture and the AI economySacchi, Giovanna

Abstract Submission

Submission
Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit abstracts in English (300–500 words).

Submit Your Abstract
01

Title of the paper

A clear, concise title reflecting your research

02

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Full names and institutional affiliations of all authors

03

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Primary email for correspondence

04

Keywords

Up to five keywords describing your research

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  • 2 Light lunches
  • Welcome reception
  • Social dinner

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People

Committees

Scientific Committee

MA
Maria Carmela AnnosiWageningen University
UA
Ubah AdemDire Dawa University
CC
Chrysanthi CharatsariAristotle University of Thessaloniki
SC
Stefano CorsiUniversity of Milan
BF
Barbara ForcinaCREA - Research Centre for Agricultural Policies and Bioeconomy
LG
Linde GoetzIAMO
CM
Chiara MazzocchiUniversity of Milan
CR
Carlo RussoUniversity of Cassino and Southern Lazio
MS
Maria SassiUniversity of Pavia
MQ
Matin QaimUniversity of Bonn, President IAAE
SS
Silvia SiviniUniversity of Calabria
MW
Muluken G. WordofaHaramaya University

Organising Committee

SC
Stefano CorsiUniversity of Milan
TD
Teresa Del GiudiceUniversity of Naples Federico II
MD
Marcello De RosaUniversity of Cassino and Southern Lazio
CZ
Catia ZumpanoCREA - Research Centre for Agricultural Policies and Bioeconomy
TP
Tiziana PagnaniUniversity of Cassino and Southern Lazio
MM
Marialaura MeoUniversity of Cassino and Southern Lazio
GO
Giuseppina OlivieriUniversity of Naples Federico II
RV
Rina VuciternaUniversity of Milan
RC
Roberta CiaravinoCREA - Research Centre for Agricultural Policies and Bioeconomy
CM
Concetta MennaCREA - Research Centre for Agricultural Policies and Bioeconomy
MT
Maria Teresa Trentinaglia De DaverioUniversity of Milan

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EAAE European Association of Agricultural Economists
CREA Center of Policies and Bioeconomy
UNICAS University of Cassino and Southern Lazio
UNINA University of Naples Federico II
UNIMI University of Milan
UNIPV University of Pavia
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