women

With the emerging land investments a new set of challenges emerges for the woman farmer.

En privant effectivement les paysans locaux de leurs terres et en perpétuant souvent « des méthodes agricoles nuisibles à l’environnement », cette évolution menace d’avoir des conséquences très négatives pour les petits exploitants, et en particulier les femmes

On Earth Day plus one, we need to ask: what can stop this speculative juggernaut? And how can we support the rural farm communities – half of our humankind – who are fighting for sustainable food production.

The problems of securing for women the right to land tenure require more effort and nuanced attentiveness than is likely to happen in the face of a juggernaut of efforts to outsource food production by countries like Saudi Arabia and for bio-fuel production for countries like South Korea.

Women in China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region have turned back officials trying to implement a forced farming program on their land, but remain concerned about their property rights, according to farmers there.