1. Care is the new radical: food and climate approaches from a peasant feminist perspective.
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Portocarrero Lacayo, Ana Victoria
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FOOD sovereignty ,CLIMATE change ,FOOD security ,FOOD cooperatives ,AGRICULTURE ,PEASANTS ,WOMEN'S empowerment - Abstract
This article examines the work of 'Fundación Entre Mujeres' (FEM), a feminist peasant collective organized in cooperatives and working on food sovereignty, agro-ecology, and the economic, ideological and organizational empowerment of peasant women in the dry corridor of Nicaragua. I argue that by centring an ethics of care and the sustainability of human and more-than-human life in their thinking and responses to the food and climate crises, FEM has opened a space of radical contestations to a dominant capitalist and patriarchal rationale and worldview that is at the core of these crises and mainstream approaches towards agricultural transformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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