Farming Matters | 31.4 | December 2015
This issue of Farming Matters presents stories about women from all over the world who are forging positive change through agroecology on their farms and in their communities.
Many innovations led by women are based on agroecological principles such as increasing diversity, using fewer pesticides, or building new relationships with consumers. Through small experiments women learn, get organised and strengthen their autonomy. This issue of Farming Matters, dedicated to women farmers and agricultural workers, shows a variety of experiences, each of them inspiring in their own way.
FEATURES
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AFRICA
India
North SINAI
Global
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial: Women showing the way with agroecology by Edith van Walsum
The faces at the frontline by ILEIA
Opinion: Safeguarding diversity in home gardens by Pablo Tittonell
Building autonomy with agroecology by Adriana Galvão Freire
Opinion: Women farmers in Europe by Hanny van Geel
Peasant women power in Mozambique by Boaventura Monjane
Women drive alternative economies in the Himalayas by Sarah Marie Nischalke