Feminist Perspectives Towards Transforming Economic Power
- Document number
- 2847
- Date
- 2011
- Title
- Feminist Perspectives Towards Transforming Economic Power
- Author/publisher
- Pamela Caro. AWID
- Availability
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- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Women' rights
- Summary
- The focus of this article is to compile and analyze
current debates about food sovereignty, in which
the international and Latin American movement
of peasant women has played a central role
in linking a women's rights approach with rural
development.
This analysis takes place in a context of significant transformations in the rural economy and society since the 1980s, as well as the successive interrelated crises-the global economic recession, climate change crisis, food prices crisis, crisis of the systems of care. All of these have had devastating effects, particularly on women and on the poorest women, and have heightened social and gender inequalities. These crises create an urgent need to open a discussion on the process of building new development models which should incorporate and be informed by the context and take into account the demands and proposals of a movement to which a significant group of Latin American peasant and indigenous women belong. - Related documents