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\parbox[b]{13.4cm}{\centering \large{\textbf{Tropentag, September 18-21, 2016, Vienna, Austria}}\\[1ex] \Large{``Solidarity in a competing world ---\\fair use of resources''\\[2ex]}}
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\Large{\textbf{Theoretical Exploration of Food Sovereignty and Gender Justice\footnote{\textbf{Contact Address:} Anika Mahla, University of Duisburg, Inst. for Development and Peace, Duisburg, Germany, \mbox{e-mail}: \email{anika.mahla@inef.uni-due.de}}\\[0.8ex]}}
\normalsize{\textsc{Anika Mahla}}
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\item[]{\small{\textit{University of Duisburg, Inst. for Development and Peace, Germany}}}
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Food Sovereignty challenges the dominant paradigm of industrialised agriculture by questioning current power asymmetries and the prevailing democratic deficit within the global food regime. Emphasizing local conditions and agroecological farming can provide an alternative to escape the social and environmental crisis. Food Sovereignty implies that the people who produce, distribute and consume food should obtain the control of mechanisms and food policies, rather than (multinational) corporations and market institutions. Social movements all over the world promote Food Sovereignty in order to address the core problems of hunger and poverty. They claim that the concept implies new social relations free of oppression and inequality between men and women. Currently, a "feminisation of poverty" exist and more than two thirds of the people suffering from hunger and malnutrition worldwide are women and girls. However, women in developing countries produce between 60 and \mbox{80\,\%} of the food and are largely responsible for further processing. Due to a lack of recognition peasant women face multifaceted challenges like discrimination (e.g. access to land and other resources). Especially in rural societies the nature of gender relations is unbalanced and the inequality is reflected in gender"=based violence, economic discrimination and the denial of basic rights.  



The research goal will be the contribution of Food Sovereignty towards overcoming patriarchal structures and its chances in the realisation of an equal right to food for men and women. This paper shall demonstrate the value of food sovereignty regarding the empowerment of women in terms of gender equality. Therefore, it will be analysed to what extend the work and rights of peasant women are recognised and how women farmer can increase their negotiation power in decision"=making processes. }

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\noindent \textbf{Keywords:} Agroecology, Empowerment, food Sovereignty, Gender Equality, Hunger Reduction
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