Examples of research on gender focus in agriculture

Research examples

Tracing the double negative: Marine ecologies and worker precarity in Southeast Asian trash fish supply chains
The project investigates how trash fish supply chains impact marine resource depletion and worker precarity in Southeast Asia.

At SLU there is a cross-divisional initiative with the aim to foster collaborative efforts on research and education related to gender and feminist research, enhancing feminist and gender lenses to urban and rural research.
Read more here: Gender studies | slu.se

GRASS Ceiling is about creating opportunities for women to take the lead and find new solutions to environmental and social challenges – while at the same time strengthening rural resilience and faith in the future.
Read more here: GRASS Ceiling — Gender equality in rural and agricultural innovation systems | slu.se

The Value of Stakeholder Participation in Collaborative Research Projects for Sustainable Development - A gender and intersectional analysis

To Stop Counting Bodies - new ideas for a gender equal forest sector
How to achieve gender equality in the forestry sector, focusing on SLU’s forestry courses and programmes

The potential of smallholder poultry farming in transforming rural livelihoods in Rwanda
Investigates how smallholder poultry farming can enhance rural household food and nutrition security and promote gender equality in Rwanda.

GOAT POWER
Critically evaluates the assumption that goat intensification programs in Zambia contribute to women farmers' empowerment through a mixed methods research approach.

Green Care' on Farms in Sweden - A gender perspective on entrepreneurship in a changed welfare state

Gender equality and climate resilience of West African cacao-dependent households
The purpose of our research is to assess whether improvements in gender equality conditions support enhanced climate resilience of cacao farming-dependent households.

Gendered perspectives on nature-positive solutions
Blog post by Dickson Kinuthia, International Food Policy Research Institute, and Elsa Wallin, student at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

The International Year of the Woman Farmer 2026

More information here.