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Women Feed the World, Not Corporations
Women-centered food system characteristics
Sharing
Everyone gets their fair share to eat
Local markets
Knowledge sharing
Caring
Basis of food security for rural communities
Nature-friendly agriculture
Conservation
Produce more using less
Small-scale
Natural resources conserved & renewed
Little to no dependence on fossil fuels
Inputs needed for production produced on the farm
Well-being
Diverse & sustaining
Nutrition is a key consideration
Reducing food insecurity
Women produce more than half the world's food
Invisible farmers
Womans role in agriculture is taken for granted and ignore (Satyavathi et al., 2010)
Work on farms longer hours than men and take care of primary fonction as house keepers (Satyavathi et al., 2010)
Women provide more than 80% of the food needs of food-insecure households & regions
Cultural diversity
Prioritize nutrition over high yield, quantity based farming
Alternatives to guarantee food security for communities
Localization & regionalization of globalization
Nonviolence instead of aggressive domination
Equity & reciprocity instead of competition
Respect for the integrity of nature & her species
Understanding humans as part of nature instead of as masters over nature
Protection of biodiversity in production & consumption
Current food system
Current issues
Corporate-controlled food
Commodity manufactured for profit
Feed
Sustenance
Biofuel
Handful of corporations control global food system (Olygarchy)
Food displaced
Women's knowledge, work, skills & creativity destroyed
Global food insecurity
Denied access to food
Obesity & related diseases due to industrially processed junk food
Vertical integration of agri-food buisiness value chaine by large corporation (AGR205-Sustainable Food Value Chaine)
4 major player of global agri-food (AGR205-Sustainable Food Value Chaine)
Louis Dreyfus
Cargil
Bunge
Archer Daniel Midland (ADM)
Corporations have redefined the concept of money & turned it into "capital"
They manipulate the meaning of "capital" to turn themselves into the "head" = rule over & exploit nature & people
Construct behind which the 1% hide to rob the 99% of their resources & opportunities
Corporations are treated as natural persons instead of artificial legal constructs
Could begin undermining the rights of real people
Claim their economic power as "freedom of speech" to
Influence elections
Control seeds
Commercialized & privatized seeds = removes control of plant genetic resources from peasant women
Hybrid seeds need to be bought every year = source of private profit
Dominate the food system
Patriarchal science
Based on an artificial construction of a fictitious "creation boundary"
Erases creativity & intrelligence of nature & women which renders their knowledge invisible
Patriarchal economics
Creates an unjust "production boundary"
Rules of GDP & official jobs = If you consume what you grow you do not "count" as a producer
Excludes women's work which renders women invisible as farmers
Problems with collecting data on women's agricultural work
Too many women do too many different kinds of work
Most of their work is not measured in wages
Industrial agriculture rooted in patriarchal scientific paradigm
Privileges
Fragmentation
Violence
Mechanistic thought
Rooted in
Ideologies of war
Promotes
Monoculture of the Mind
Using GMO to combat nutrient deficiency instead of turning to more efficient traditional knowledge
Monoculture of the land
Under false tenet that they produce more
Driving out biodiversity & nutrition
GMO
Denying knowledge of agroecology & diversity (women's knowledge)
Origin
"Fathers of modern science: Bacon, Newton & Descartes
Newtonian-Cartesian idea of nature
Fragmented world
Denies the interconnectedness of nature
Has been proven false by new sciences (quantum physics & epigenetics)
"The Masculine Birth of Time"
According to Bacon: Heroes & supermen will dominate & shake nature to her foundations
The Royal Society (founded 1660, London)
Inspired by Bacon's philosophy
Intention
"Raise a masculine philosophy; whereby the Mind of the Man may be ennobled with the knowledge of solid truths" (Henry Oldenburg)
"Know the ways of captivating Nature, and making her subserve our purposes, thereby achieving the Empire of Man Over Nature" (Joseph Glanvill)
Rise of mechanical philosophy = instrument of power (Robert Boyle)
Over nature
Over original inhabitants of America
Impacts
Allows war to be unleashed against the Earth
Growing capitalism
Removes all restraint on nature & functions as cultural sanctions for the denudation of nature
Renders women, and their knowledge, invisible
Ecological destruction of nature's processes
Destruction of people's livelihoods & lives
Devalues women's place in the world = women are devalued, displaced & disappeared
Women's agricultural knowledge
Seed
Preserve genetic diversity & self-renewability of food crops
Seed savong throught generations
Promotes Biodiversity
E.g., In Nigerian home gardens, they plant 18-57 plant species in a single home garden
Nutrition
Use of drumstick leaves s in Indian food that contain great mount of vitamin A
Growing methods
Rooted in principles of agroecology
Nonmechanised
Small scale
Uses of marginal land
Backyards
Unused land around monocultures
Education, research program, technical training and extension program are targeted for men . (Satyavathi et al., 2010)
References
Satyavathi, C. T., Bharadwaj, C., & Brahmanand, P. S. (2010). Role of farm women in agriculture: Lessons learned. Gender, Technology and Development, 14(3), 441-449.
AGR205-Sustainable Food Value Chaine