FLIARA - women’s role in a more sustainable rural future

Key contemporary trends, such as climate change, gender inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic, bring new challenges to European rural areas. Change also brings opportunities to foster more resilient, inclusive and sustainable rural regions, such as created by the digital and ecological transitions. However, there is a need for all individuals and communities to participate in rural innovation. Traditionally, however, rural women’s employment opportunities and contribution to innovation has been overshadowed, and often suppressed, by for example a patriarchal ethos.

The new started project FLIARA (Female-Led Innovation in Agriculture and Rural Areas) uniquely proposes a transdisciplinary, innovative methodology to improve understanding, awareness and recognition of women’s role in a more sustainable rural future, as well as develop proposals for how more effective policy and governance frameworks can support this and enhance women’s capacity to contribute to it. It will actively involve female farmers and female rural entrepreneurs.  Project outcomes will result in end-user ready resources, including policy proposals and practical tools supporting women-led innovation.

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In the Horizon Europe project FLIARA, TU Delft Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment is participating with researchers professor Willem Korthals Altes (MBE) and Gerdy Verschuuure-Stuip (Urbanism, Landscape Architecture). The project is led by the University of Galway, Ireland.

• More information about the project can be found here.
• Visit the professor’s page of Willem Korthals Altes.