Gender and feminist perspectives are at the core and beating heart of the food systems transformation we all urgently claim.  

Gender and feminist perspectives, demands and analysis are more than a transversal issue. They enable a systemic vision for change that is currently needed to ensure human rights based, just, healthy and ecologically sustainable food systems at all levels.  

Gender and feminist perspectives allow us to… 

…name power relations. They allow us to politicize the relations we establish inside and outside our networks, at institutional level, in our territories. The ability to name gender violence and its root causes brings into existence what is invisible. It makes existent what was considered inexistent. It forces us to be uncomfortable in a constructive manner, towards healthy and free-from-violence relations, collaborative networks, institutions and communities.  

…have an integrated and holistic agroecological vision for our territorial food systems. The agroecological practices that can inform food systems transformation have clear economic, social and political dimensions. It is time to explicitly include the ecofeminist dimension.  

…work and practice intersectionality. To name and address the different lines and layers of oppression that each of us brings with its own biography. It is insufficient to sit in a circle to be horizontal and it is not sufficient to work collectively to be equal. Inclusive participatory spaces are not about quantity but about quality. Who is in the decision-making space? Who is missing? And Why? It is about framing the right questions, avoiding yes or no answers.  

…include in our strategies, actions and collaborative networks also the non-reproductive work that ensure life’s sustainability and continuation, such as care work and social reproductive labor, to ensure re-distributive and equity-based food systems.  

…understand that gender and feminist perspectives are a liberation struggle for all. Leaving no one behind.