MSc Laia Baró Gómez is a researcher at the Chair of Agroecology and Food Systems for Social Transformation at the University of Vic – Central University of Catalonia (UVic – UCC). Graduated in Environmental Biology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and with specialized studies in Agroecology through the Master of Agroecology: an approach to rural sustainability at the Universitat Pablo de Olavide (UPO). Her research experience is related to the role of rural women linked to the agrifood system and the conservation and transmission of traditional knowledge, the central theme of her final master’s thesis in the Sierra de Ronda, Málaga and also in Castellon where she made her contribution through Connecta Natura association. She is currently working on the study of the economic viability of small agroecological farms, within the framework of feminist economics, through the SWIFT and FEM VIDA project and on the analysis of the value chain in pastoral systems and their sustainability in a context of change and phenomena of growing uncertainty within the framework of the REPAST project.