Making food sovereignty a reality is an essential step on the way to transforming a broken food system and societies in crisis. A step that we will not be able to achieve without the active and equal participation of women and their recognition as political subjects.
As farmers, peasants, field workers, as a fundamental part of the agricultural workforce, women’s voices must be heard and their rights respected.
In this video, women across the Friends of the Earth network explain why achieving gender justice is so essential to building food sovereignty and will lay the foundation for a more peaceful, just and sustainable world for all.