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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{Food Sovereignty as Peasant Women's Resistance to Neoextractivism in Latin America\footnote{\textbf{Contact Address:} Ana Alvarenga de Castro, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Gender and Globalisation - Institut of Agriculture, Hannoversche Str. 27 Haus 12, D-10115~Berlin, Germany, \mbox{e-mail}: \email{ana.alvarengadecastro@gmail.com}}\\[0.8ex]}}
\normalsize{\textsc{Ana Alvarenga de Castro}}
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\item[]{\small{\textit{Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Gender and Globalisation - Institut of Agriculture, Germany}}}
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The actual global food system is part of a political"=economic logic that places the Global South as a raw material supplier for the industrialised North. In this context, Latin American countries play the role of commodities exporters in the international labour division, including among exported items grains, soybean paste and ores. This reality is composed by unequal accesses to food and natural resources at the global and the local scopes. The processes at the local level show important practices held by peasant women facing high extractive activities, many times under social"=environmental conflicts in which they are the most affected. This article discusses the "place"=based globalism" and the "women sustainable livelihoods" brought to light by Wendy Harcourt, taking the Feminist Political Ecology as a basis. The main goal is to argument that the women farmer's resistance, in terms of agroecologycal practices and political perspectives are unique responses to the patriarchal"=capitalist economic system that drives neoextractivist activities in Latin America.



Peasant women's practices on land are inserted here in the concept of ``food sovereignty'' borrowed from the peasant's movement, internationally represented by La Via Campesina. Food sovereignty is impregnated by the idea of farmers and consumers taking control of the food systems, which would be based on agroecologycal practices on soil, seeds, water and vegetation, on small scale markets and social justice. It holds a strong political meaning that many times includes the protagonist place of women farmers both in agricultural practices and political actions. This work discusses the narratives present in some publications and publicized releases from the peasant's movement, linking them with some academical articles illustrating women present in social"=environmental conflicts or women defending food sovereignty at the local level. At the end, it brings this analysis to the neoextractivism debate ran also in the academical space confronted with the notion of women sustainable livelihoods as alternatives to neoliberal/neocolonial approaches. Both conceptualisations are connected to the meanings of food sovereignty with its feminist perspectives being a resistance movement.}

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\noindent \textbf{Keywords:} Food sovereignty, neoextractivism, peasant women, women sustainable livelihoods
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