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WOMEN’S ASSEMBLY ON FOOD SOVEREIGNTY

People's Food Sovereignty Forum 2009

November 2009

Rome Italy

 

FINAL DECLARATION

 

We, women and members of the Women’s Assembly on Food Sovereignty during the People’s Forum on Food Sovereignty in Rome held November 14-16; 2009, after intense discussions have seen the systematic oppression and exploitation of women through the processes of globalization and corporatization of agriculture intensified by patriarchy and traditional and cultural oppression. These have brought untold sufferings and indignities in the lives of women. They have lost control of land and productive resources particularly seeds. They do not have access to education, health care, work in hazardous conditions and get low wages and face increasing hunger and malnutrition.

 

We, participants of the Women’s Assembly commit towards to:

 

  1. Equality and equal representation in policy and decision making.
  2. Advance genuine agrarian, fisheries, pastoral reforms that ensures gender justice and rights of women to land including common property rights.
  3. Ensure and enforce women’s rights over seeds as well as productive resources such as water and protecting and conserving women’s knowledge on innovative and ecological approaches.
  4. Protect the rights of women agricultural workers and their communities and ensure safe working conditions and fair wages.
  5. Stop the use of food as a political weapon.
  6. The impact of climate change on women food producers should be recongnised and their contribution to enhance resilience should be valued.
  7. Strengthen women’s organization, coalitions and networks.

We call for gender justice and world peace.

 

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http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33002&Cr=&Cr1=

 

UN FAO WORLD FOOD SECURITY SUMMIT ENDS WITHOUT

SPECIFIC TARGETS FOR ENDING GLOBAL HUNGER

 

18 November 2009 – The 3-day United Nations Summit on World Food Security wrapped up in Rome today with its host lamenting that it produced neither measurable targets nor specific deadlines for ending a food crisis scourge that afflicts more than 1 billion people around the planet.......

 

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FULL 4-PAGE DECLARATION IS ATTACHED.

 





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