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Gender Relations and Food Sovereignty

The dimension of food sovereignty in the global food system is the vision that entails the changes and advances in all aspects of food movements such as political, geographical, agricultural, and social systems. This dimension also recalls the inequalities and stereotypes related to food culture, production, security, and procurement through asymmetric dynamics of power in gender relations. This essay builds upon the notion Turner discusses in “Food Sovereignty, Gender, and Everyday Practice” about global food models and the relationship of food sovereignty with gender relations.

Food sovereignty in its broader term is understood as the people’s (both men and women) right all around the globe to produce, procure, and consume in their own respective territories. Turner examines women’s daily practices in food provisioning by building examples of women from the Siviru community. Women along with men living in rural communities play a central role in agricultural expansion. He takes them as a model to emphasize the priorities of rural women to maintain their independent existence in the global food market economy. Besides, these daily practices give women the greater independence to nurture their personal, ecological, and socio-cultural relations.

Furthermore, the idea is briefly focused in “Nourishing Life-Territories of Life & Food Sovereignty” which sheds light on how food sovereignty in return contributes to the conversation of nature and biodiversity. In relation to what Turner emphasizes, this policy article also states that affirming the human rights especially of rural peasant women will mutually revitalize food sovereignty and gender justice (Pimbert, M, 2019).

Video transcript, in addition, showcases how elites do not pave the way to the foodstuff for the poorest undernourished people. Rural communities that are socially responsible for feeding the world are deprived of handing out the foodstuff they produce. The movement “Long Live La Via Campesina” in this respect was an initiative 10 years ago to make indigenous people (especially women) believe in their rights to build localized food sovereignty. The movement facilitated the local people to reclaim their existence in the capitalist food market which they were deprived of due to a lack of recognition of their necessary function (La Via Campesina, 2011).

The main conclusion of this essay is that proponents of the food system need to address gender as a “we are all the same” construct. The case of the Siviru community in this respect shows that the daily life provisioning contributions of women are significant to maintain the household as well as the food system for the autonomous functional capacity of regional food sovereignty. It is indeed a fact that by ignoring the daily women provisioning practices, the patriarchal society will not be assigned any monetary value in the capitalist food market.

References

Pimbert, M. P. and Borrini-Feyerabend, G.” (2019) Nourishing life-territories of life and food sovereignty. Policy brief of the ICCA Consortium no. 6. Various: ICCA Consortium, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience at Coventry University and CENESTA.

Turner, Katherine L., C. Julian Idrobo, Annette Aurelie Desmarais, and Ana Maria Peredo.” (2020) Food Sovereignty, Gender and Everyday Practice: The Role of Afro-Colombian Women in Sustaining Localised Food Systems. The Journal of Peasant Studies: 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2020.1786812.

La Via Campesina. (2011). La Via Campesina in Movement… Food Sovereignty Now! In Vimeo. https://vimeo.com/27473286

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