In this article, part of our Food Sovereignty and Spirituality series, members of the Food Sovereignty Alliance (FSA) in India share about their fight against the dominant Brahmanical patriarchal ideology which is at the root of the caste …
CSAs as spaces of care and self-exploitation: a feminist perspective from the UK
I have worked in Community Supported Agriculture for the last 15 years in the UK. Over the last year, I have combined this activity with CAWR’s MSc Programme in Agroecology, Water and Food Sovereignty. The …
Ecofeminism and Meat Substitutes: A Critical Discussion
The author, Anouk Dijkman, is a student in the MSc Programme of Food Sovereignty, Water and Resilience, a transdisciplinary post-graduate degree at Coventry University (UK). In this blog, which builds on her research work in …
New podcast episode: Where Indigenous feminisms and food sovereignties meet
Destruction of Indigenous women and of Indigenous food systems were two powerful weapons used by colonists to conquer the North American continent. Today, stories of recovering traditional foodways are braided in with stories of re-making …
Ecofeminism, agroecology, food sovereignty and African philosophy: Exploring values in contemporary social movements
This article is written by Frederique Bosveld, Masters student in International Development Studies specialising in Inclusive Innovation, Communication, and Development at Wageningen University (WUR). African philosophy Preface by Birgit Boogaard. Birgit teaches courses on African …
What does feminism have to do with the food you eat? Agroecology is not agroecology without feminism
Agroecology is gaining steam around the world as an alternative to the industrial food system. However, it is often adopted as a technical fix, employed as a set of techniques and tools, rather than a …
Agroecology and Community Feminism: Nurturing Territories
Alejandra Guzman Luna writes about agroecology and community feminism, drawing from her experience working in the Oaxacan Mixteca, Mexico. The notion of community feminism is a vital way to advance an agroecology that effectively nourishes …
Linking food and feminisms: learning from decolonial movements
Feminisms that bring an anti-colonial, decolonial or indigenous perspective work to reconstitute non-hierarchical relationships among people, between people and nature, and through this shift, the relationship between people and their food.
Reading for Food Justice
This project involved critically analyzing the policy documents and statements that have been published by different organisations in post-brexit Britain to read between the lines and help understand the power and politics behind these positions. …