Webinar: Working with Women Farmers and Smallholders in Using Earth Observation Data

[Amitangshu]

Dear All,

Sharing with everyone an invitation to the first episode of a Webinar Series “Watering the Margins” from IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, the Netherlands.

The first episode on 14th May 2024 (9:30 A.M-11:00 A.M CEST) will bring together activists and researchers to discuss concerns of equity in the generation and use of earth observation data in agriculture.

Many agriculture and water management projects attempting to provide remotely sensed hydro-agroecological data to farmers engage exclusively with large landholders. Typically, the farmers are men from the dominant class, caste, and ethnic groups. The exclusion of women farmers, smallholders, share-croppers, and marginal farmers from such programs deepens the knowledge and resource divide. Moreover, such engagements often aimed at the transfer of information offer very little space for acknowledging knowledge traditions of marginal farming communities.

The webinar brings together Seema Kulkarni from India (National Facilitation Team member of  Forum for Women Farmers Rights, India, and core member of the Feminist Policy Collective), Bancy Mati [Founder Chairperson of the Association of Irrigation Acceleration Platform (AIAP) and Professor at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT)] Kenya, and Marloes Mul (Associate Professor, Water Resource Management, IHE Delft) the Netherlands. They will share their insights on working with marginalized farmers and discuss the socio-technical challenges to making earth observation data useful for smallholders.

The link to the registration page : t.ly/t0cx3  

Do join us, if it is of interest, and also feel free to circulate the invitation. 

Regards

Amitangshu 

Amitangshu Acharya

Lecturer, Department of Water Governance

IHE Delft Institute for Water Education

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