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People seek to co-design food systems, to participate in shaping them, to recapture them. We were familiar with the slogan of workplace democracy; we must now open up our eyes to food democracy.

Agroecology has the potential to challenge the power dynamics in the current exploitative and oppressive agri-food regime, to realize women’s rights in the agricultural sector, to enrich feminist perspectives, and further strengthen political will to reframe gender roles and responsibilities. Feminism in food crisis struggles is best reflected in the agroecology and food sovereignty paradigm, applying the practices of solidarity by collective actions that challenge gender roles as well as paradigms of inequality, oppression and exploitation.

The coronavirus pandemic addresses the fragility of our globalized food system with Industrial agriculture hanging by a thin thread.

We need to stop depending on corporations and big agribusiness for our food. The pandemic has made it clear why.

Can investing in women’s agriculture increase productivity? This paper argues that it can. We assess climate and gender bias impacts on women’s production in the global South and North and challenge the male model of agricultural development to argue further that women’s farming approaches can be more sustainable. Level-based analysis (global, regional, local) draws on a literature review, including the authors’ published longitudinal field research in Ghana and the United States. Women farmers are shown to be undervalued and to work harder, with fewer resources, for...

In response to neoliberal food and agriculture policy, peasant movements fought for increased state support of the small-farm sector. Vía Campesina now proposes agroecology and localized trade as environmental solutions to the current climate crisis by advocating for the ‘peasant way.’ This discourse is problematic because peasant farmers are not inherently supportive of local, sustainable food. Drawing on ethnographic field research with indigenous peasant communities in the rural highlands of Ecuador, this article illustrates how existing peasants practice chemical-intensive, monocrop, and export-oriented production. In using peasant as an ideal type rather than an historical ethno-class, post-development scholars essentialize peasant agriculture.

Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG) on gender equality and women’s rights and at least 11 of the 17 SDGs require indicators related to gender dynamic…

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As Mexico puts into place new policies to address increased migration from the Northern Triangle, it is critical that policymakers take into account the rights and needs of migrant women traveling to and working in Mexico.

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High-yield farming systems have the potential to spare non-farmed land for other uses (such as nature conservation), but raise concerns about their other environmental impacts (such as greenhouse gas emissions and soil erosion). This study argues such impacts should be measured per unit of production and shows that viewed this way, some land-efficient systems have less impact than lower-yielding alternatives.

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This chapter explores the entanglement of a group of consumers, producers and food that have assembled a cooperative of responsible consumption in the city of Valdivia, in southern Chile. The case of the Cooperative La Manzana describes the process