The Graduate Program and Sustainable Agriculture and Department of Community and Regional Planning invites you to join us for:

"Building a more just and equitable sustainable agriculture movement"

with 

Gabrielle Roesch-McNally, PhD

Women for the Land Director at American Farmland Trust

Washington, DC

This talk will address key strategies for advancing a sustainable agriculture research agenda to ask more questions about power, economic justice and gender and racial equity. Further my presentation will explore programmatic work with American Farmland Trust’s Women for the Land program, examining how we are working to change gendered social relationships in agriculture via the creation of non-hierarchical homosocial peer networks among women in agriculture. Via this case study, we will explore the transformational opportunities to create a more intersectional outreach and engagement strategy to advance sustainable agriculture goals. Yet, my presentation will also problematize the ways alternative spaces for women in agriculture may not transform embedded patriarchal or racialized forms of relation in agriculture.

Gabrielle leads AFT’s national initiative to ensure women landowners have access to resources, technical advice, and policy facilitators to ensure they lead in conservation and building resilient agrifood systems. Before joining AFT, she worked as a fellow with the USDA Northwest Climate Hub where she conducted social science research to better understand producer decision making in sustainable agrifood systems, particularly in the context of climate change adaptation and mitigation. She has written or contributed to many reports, assessments, and other publications on climate change. Gabrielle earned a Master of Science from the University of Washington School of Environmental and Forestry Science, where she focused on environmental economics and a Doctorate in sociology and sustainable agriculture from Iowa State University where she worked as one of the lead social scientists on a large-scale interdisciplinary USDA-NIFA project as part of her dissertation research.

Wednesday, March 10 - Online Meeting

3:10 - 4:15 p.m. Presentation with Q&A Session

WebEx Link: https://iastate.webex.com/iastate/j.php?MTID=mbcdc8bfe2833dd0705ff1ae84…

Password: SUSAG600

Those not enrolled in SUSAG 600 may request to attend. Please send an RSVP to kellis@iastate.edu