Day 1: Changing Value Systems, One Village at a Time
Blog: Day 1: Changing Value Systems, One Village at a Time19 November 2012If in the course of earning income women farmers are systematically exploited, have their control over what is grown and how...
View ArticleDay 2: The Potential of Women Suppliers
Blog: Day 2: The Potential of Women Suppliers 20 November 2012Food system transformation will require the engagement of women suppliers along entire agricultural value chains. Women need to shift out...
View ArticleDay 3: Seeds in Women’s Hands
Blog: Day 3: Seeds in Women’s Hands 21 November 2012Seeds are the first link in the food chain. Yet women seed breeders are invisible in the industrial model of food production and in intellectual...
View ArticleDay 4: Women Farm Workers Dying for Food
Blog: Day 4: Women Farm Workers Dying for Food22 November 2012One of the ultimate perversities of our era is that the producers of food and their children often go to bed hungry. Reform of commercial...
View ArticleDay 5: Time for a New Recipe
Blog: Day 5: Time for a New Recipe 23 November 2012The women’s movement hasn’t been proactive about defining its own platform for action on food justice, and we are noticeably absent from spaces where...
View ArticleDay 6: Stop Talking About Equality
Blog: Day 6: Stop Talking About Equality26 November 2012Business leaders change behavior when something is in it for them and their companies. If we want them to change the way they do business, we...
View ArticleDay 7: Seeds and Sisterhood
Blog: Day 7: Seeds and Sisterhood27 November 2012Governments and development agencies need to shift the onus of feeding the world away from time-strapped impoverished women, and instead support their...
View ArticleDay 8: On the Virtues of Discrimination
Blog: Day 8: On the Virtues of Discrimination28 November 2012All things being equal, countries benefit from more open trade. But all things are not equal. For women, the context is almost always one of...
View ArticleDay 9: Nutrition Policies that Work for Women
Blog: Day 9: Nutrition Policies that Work for Women29 November 2012Almost everywhere and across all age-groups, female nutrition indicators are worse than those of their male counterparts. Gender...
View ArticleDay 9: Feminism and Food Sovereignty
Blog: Day 9: Feminism and Food Sovereignty29 November 2012Food sovereignty offers opportunities to advance women’s rights, but we must also work to change gender relations within rural families and...
View ArticleDay 10: The Recivilization of Men by Women
Blog: Day 10: The Recivilization of Men by Women30 November 2012The agrarian transition to an input-intensive, capitalized form of agriculture is deeply gendered. Food security depends on combating...
View ArticleSouth Sudan at 3: A tenuous shelter behind razor wire
Blog: South Sudan at 3: A tenuous shelter behind razor wire9 July 2014Today marks South Sudan’s third year of independence. But in the past seven months, the sense of unity that brought its people...
View ArticleDay 1: Changing Value Systems, One Village at a Time
Blog: Day 1: Changing Value Systems, One Village at a Time19 November 2012If in the course of earning income women farmers are systematically exploited, have their control over what is grown and how...
View ArticleDay 2: The Potential of Women Suppliers
Blog: Day 2: The Potential of Women Suppliers 20 November 2012Food system transformation will require the engagement of women suppliers along entire agricultural value chains. Women need to shift out...
View ArticleDay 3: Seeds in Women’s Hands
Blog: Day 3: Seeds in Women’s Hands 21 November 2012Seeds are the first link in the food chain. Yet women seed breeders are invisible in the industrial model of food production and in intellectual...
View ArticleDay 4: Women Farm Workers Dying for Food
Blog: Day 4: Women Farm Workers Dying for Food22 November 2012One of the ultimate perversities of our era is that the producers of food and their children often go to bed hungry. Reform of commercial...
View ArticleDay 5: Time for a New Recipe
Blog: Day 5: Time for a New Recipe 23 November 2012The women’s movement hasn’t been proactive about defining its own platform for action on food justice, and we are noticeably absent from spaces where...
View ArticleDay 6: Stop Talking About Equality
Blog: Day 6: Stop Talking About Equality26 November 2012Business leaders change behavior when something is in it for them and their companies. If we want them to change the way they do business, we...
View ArticleDay 7: Seeds and Sisterhood
Blog: Day 7: Seeds and Sisterhood27 November 2012Governments and development agencies need to shift the onus of feeding the world away from time-strapped impoverished women, and instead support their...
View ArticleDay 8: On the Virtues of Discrimination
Blog: Day 8: On the Virtues of Discrimination28 November 2012All things being equal, countries benefit from more open trade. But all things are not equal. For women, the context is almost always one of...
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