Organized by: Action Aid
Description:
The prevailing economic system serves to both exploit and exacerbate women’s relative position of economic, social and political exclusion. Feminist economists and academics, feminist activists, women’s rights organizations and labor movements working at local, national, regional and international levels have demonstrated how this intersects with systems of patriarchy, racism, (neo)colonialism and heteronormativity, resulting in the exploitation of the majority of the world’s women and the environment, with those in the Global South hit hardest.
In addition to farming, women do most of the household labor: collecting water and firewood, cooking, cleaning and washing, as well as caring for family and community members. Women have always been active in producing food crops, processing food and marketing. However, despite comprising almost half of the world’s agricultural producers, women have access to and control less that 20% of the land globally. As the world is emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic it is crucial that human rights and climate and social justice drive social reform.
Although incredibly diverse and often context-specific, feminist economic alternatives (FEAs) demand and put in practice steps towards the systemic transformation of the rules of the economy.
Systemic transformation entails calling out and dismantling unequal power relations that are rooted in interlocking systems of oppression and a reconstruction of the economic systems, structures, policies and institutions that both perpetuate and benefit from them, so that economic systems are instead focused on ensuring the democratic and accountable attainment of human rights for all and environmental preservation. FEAs are rooted in principles and value of care for all life forms, the promotion or women’s autonomy and leadership, cooperation and solidarity, democracy, and pluralism, valuing of local knowledge, and freedom from gender-based violence.
Speakers:
Moderator – Wangari Kinoti – Head of the Women’s Rights Team – ActionAid International
Keynote speech – Ruth Nyambura - African EcoFeminist Collective
Discussant 1 - Miriam Nobre - World March of Women Discussant 2 – Sonia Vidal - La Via Campesina
Discussant 3 – Andrea Collins, University of Waterloo
Debate with intervention from the audience
#FoodSystems4People
More information: https://www.foodsystems4people.org/
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