Contributions of Women from the Agroecology Network in Uruguay to Knowledge about Problems and Strategies Related to Climate Change.

The work exposes the problems and strategies linked to the causes and effects of climate change, from the perspective, knowledge and experiences of the Collective Women in the Agroecology Network of Uruguay (RAU).

From this perspective, it focuses on understanding socio-productive and cultural visions, which claim a link with the land and particular nature (Nión, 2022). Likewise, it makes visible the contemporary disputes that unfold around agri-food systems and how there are ways of existence that account for the processes of subjectivation themselves (Rieiro-Karageuzián, 2020).

Finally, it shows the concrete contributions of women to the situations of uncertainty and socio-environmental challenges that these phenomena entail, anchored in pre-existing gender roles as caretakers of life, but also in the power of the community networks they build.

The project, developed between September 2023 and November 2024, was based primarily on qualitative participatory research strategies, seeking to apply eco-health and transdisciplinary principles. It was funded through the 2023 seed funding call of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), and will be developed between September 2023 and November 2024.