Food Sovereignty as one answer to the Care-Crisis

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Food Sovereignty as one answer to the Care-Crisis

• Tina Goethe
• SWISSAID
• WIDE Annual Conference, June 09

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Women as food provisioners

• Women play an important role in
• producing
• processing
• storing
• trading
• marketing
• buying
• cooking of food
• gt All along the food chain, from producers to
  consumers (paid and unpaid work)

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Women in Food Production

• Worldwide women are responsible for half of the
  worlds food production
• In African countries women account for 60 of
  the labor force and produce 80 of the food in
  most developing countries
• South-Asia women do 90 of the work in the rice
  cultivation
• Women are majority of urban food producers in
  many cities around the world
• And still
• 70 percent of the world hungry are women and
  girls

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Urban agriculture

• Mrs Obama in her organic garden at the White
  House

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Urban agriculture
Kitchen garden in Colombian City
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Kitchen garden in rural India
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Kitchen garden in rural Colombia
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Women as food provisioners
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Women as food provisioners
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Ecuadorian woman producing potatoes
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SWISSAID Seeds Campaign
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Corporate Food Chain at-a-glance Top 10 revenue
share Growth in only 5 years
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Corporate control of the world market

• Top Ten Seeds corporation 67
• (1.Monsanto, 2.DuPont, 3.Syngenta)
• Top Ten Agrochemicals corporations 89
• (1.Bayer, 2.Syngenta, 3.BASF)

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Corporate Concentration within the Food Chain

• Food and Beverage Processors Top Ten control 26
  of global market
• (1.Nestlé)
• Food Retailer Top 10 sell 40 of grocery sold by
  the Top 100
• (1.Wal-Mart, 2.Carrefour, 3.Tesco)

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Food Sovereignty

• Food Sovereignty is the right of individuals,
  communities, peoples and countries to define
  their own agricultural, labour, fishing, food and
  land policies, which are ecologically, socially,
  economically and culturally appropriate to their
  unique circumstances. It includes the true right
  to food and to produce food, which means that all
  people have the right to safe, nutritious and
  cultural appropriate food and to food-producing
  resources and the ability to sustain themselves
  and their societies.
• International Planning Committee for Food
  Sovereignty, 2002/2004

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Food Sovereignty in the IAASTD

• Food Sovereignty is defined as the right of
  peoples and sovereign states to democratically
  determine their own agricultural and food
  policies. (IAASTD, Global Summary for Decision
  Makers 2008)

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The right to food and the right to produce food

• priority of local production to feed people
  locally
• gt local markets
• access of smallholder farmers, pastoralists,
  fisherfolk and landless people to land, water,
  seeds and livestock breeds and credit gt true
  land reforms
• the recognition of the rights of women farmers
• the right of consumers to decide what they
  consume
• gt no GMOS (e.g.)
• the right of countries to protect themselves from
  under-priced food imports gt no dumping
• the need for agricultural prices to be linked to
  production costs gt fair prices
• agro-ecology as a way not only to produce food
  but also to achieve sustainable livelihoods,
  living landscapes and environmental integrity gt
  organic and biodiverse production

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Consumers Choices

• Buy ...
• Local
• Seasonal
• Fair
• Oranic

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