(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2023-12-12) Motta, Renatta; Teixeira, Marco Antonio
The Marcha das Margaridas is a coalition of women and feminism movements, agrarian movements, trade unions, and international organizations that emerged in 2000. Women’s organizations that are part of a rural trade federation lead the process. While its initial agenda included gendered class-based demands for the recognition of women’s work in food production, access to land titles and labour rights, the Marcha das Margaridas progressively incorporated other topics, such as agroecology and food sovereignty. The article addresses three questions: How did food sovereignty enter their agenda? What is the meaning of food sovereignty for them? How can food sovereignty be understood from a (popular) feminist perspective? Based on an analysis of the political documents, we identified five main themes in the discourse of the Marcha das Margaridas on food sovereignty: 1) food as a right and a common; 2) state support for women’s food production; 3) the value of uncommodified food work; 4) environmental recovery through agroecology; 5) violence-free food, produced through respectful social relations.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2023-12-12) Bara, Claudia Rosina; González-Santos, Rosalinda; Colmenero Morales, Silvia Leticia; Hernández-Sandoval, Luis; Hernández-Puente, Karla Nicol
Alternative Food Networks (AFN) emerged globally as competing movements and interconnections between alternative and small-scale food initiatives which counterpose the industrialized, globalized and mass consumption agri-food system. In Mexico, given the seriousness of the consequences that the industrial food system entails for people in the country, several alternative food initiatives have emerged that work in networks to promote local production systems and promote a transformation of this system from below. In the southern zone of the state of Querétaro, and specifically in the municipality of Amealco and its three main delegations, we analyze from a quantitative and qualitative methodology, what is the genetic richness of these indigenous communities in terms of edible plants and local crops and what role local production systems have, as well as the initiatives that integrate the AFN, in the construction of food sovereignty. For this purpose, we analyzed what local actors understand about food sovereignty from a territorial and cultural perspective, who are the actors that make up the AFN at the territorial level, how they interrelate and what are the requirements and challenges to consider walking towards food sovereignty.
