Peasant Women Weaving Food Sovereignty Networks in Syndemic Times
The COVID-19 pandemic must be analyzed as a syndemic, resulting from the interaction between diseases and political and socioeconomic macro-processes that affect food sovereignty, mainly of women. The peasant movements propose, as a way out of the multi-crises, the transformation of the food system,...
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| author | Thelma Mendes Pontes Gisela Illescas Monica Hernandez Denisse Garcia Irma Calte Juliana Merçon Citlalli Binnqüist |
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| description | The COVID-19 pandemic must be analyzed as a syndemic, resulting from the interaction between diseases and political and socioeconomic macro-processes that affect food sovereignty, mainly of women. The peasant movements propose, as a way out of the multi-crises, the transformation of the food system, based on food sovereignty and feminist principles. In this article, we use data from a transdisciplinary investigation and a report produced by women to guide actions in relation to gender issues, COVID-19 and food systems, as a basis for the analysis of a particular case in Mexico: the initiatives carried out to confront the COVID-19 syndemic by coffee-growing women, peasant and popular feminists, in two communities in the mountains of Veracruz. The objective of this article is to demonstrate that these women have managed to strengthen the bonds of solidarity in their communities, of reciprocity with Mother Earth and comprehensive health care through the strengthening of ancestral practices (plant gathering and barter), and new tools (self-care circles and digital media). This article demonstrates how the ways of life of these women, their creativity and resilience materialize locally, and thus proposes the construction of another narrative by and about peasant women. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c3749d176bef429986e1b750847332c52023-06-03T00:11:25ZengUniversidade Federal do TocantinsRevista Brasileira de Educação do Campo2525-48632023-05-01812910.20873/uft.rbec.e14895Peasant Women Weaving Food Sovereignty Networks in Syndemic Times Thelma Mendes Pontes0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0785-6683Gisela Illescas1Monica Hernandez2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8645-4262Denisse Garcia3https://orcid.org/0009-0008-4965-4167Irma Calte4Juliana Merçon5https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7249-1994Citlalli Binnqüist6https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9592-3101Universidad Veracruzana - UV, MéxicoVinculación y Desarollo Agroecológico en Café – VIDA AC, MéxicoVinculación y Desarollo Agroecológico en Café – VIDA AC, MéxicoVinculación y Desarollo Agroecológico en Café – VIDA AC, MéxicoVinculación y Desarollo Agroecológico en Café – VIDA AC, MéxicoUniversidad Veracruzana - UV, MéxicoUniversidad Veracruzana - UV, MéxicoThe COVID-19 pandemic must be analyzed as a syndemic, resulting from the interaction between diseases and political and socioeconomic macro-processes that affect food sovereignty, mainly of women. The peasant movements propose, as a way out of the multi-crises, the transformation of the food system, based on food sovereignty and feminist principles. In this article, we use data from a transdisciplinary investigation and a report produced by women to guide actions in relation to gender issues, COVID-19 and food systems, as a basis for the analysis of a particular case in Mexico: the initiatives carried out to confront the COVID-19 syndemic by coffee-growing women, peasant and popular feminists, in two communities in the mountains of Veracruz. The objective of this article is to demonstrate that these women have managed to strengthen the bonds of solidarity in their communities, of reciprocity with Mother Earth and comprehensive health care through the strengthening of ancestral practices (plant gathering and barter), and new tools (self-care circles and digital media). This article demonstrates how the ways of life of these women, their creativity and resilience materialize locally, and thus proposes the construction of another narrative by and about peasant women.https://sistemas.uft.edu.br/periodicos/index.php/campo/article/view/14895agroecologybarterplant gatheringintegral healthpopular peasant feminism. |
| spellingShingle | Thelma Mendes Pontes Gisela Illescas Monica Hernandez Denisse Garcia Irma Calte Juliana Merçon Citlalli Binnqüist Peasant Women Weaving Food Sovereignty Networks in Syndemic Times Revista Brasileira de Educação do Campo agroecology barter plant gathering integral health popular peasant feminism. |
| title | Peasant Women Weaving Food Sovereignty Networks in Syndemic Times |
| title_full | Peasant Women Weaving Food Sovereignty Networks in Syndemic Times |
| title_fullStr | Peasant Women Weaving Food Sovereignty Networks in Syndemic Times |
| title_full_unstemmed | Peasant Women Weaving Food Sovereignty Networks in Syndemic Times |
| title_short | Peasant Women Weaving Food Sovereignty Networks in Syndemic Times |
| title_sort | peasant women weaving food sovereignty networks in syndemic times |
| topic | agroecology barter plant gathering integral health popular peasant feminism. |
| url | https://sistemas.uft.edu.br/periodicos/index.php/campo/article/view/14895 |
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