FEMINIST ECONOMICS AND ENVIRONMENTALISM FOR A JUST RECOVERY

The report presents a critique of the capitalist, patriarchal, and colonial systems as the root causes of the Covid-19 pandemic and broader ecological crises. It advocates for a 'transformative economy' that prioritizes the sustainability of life over capital accumulation, emphasizing the central role of care work, food sovereignty, and the decommodification of public services. The authors call for a new internationalism based on solidarity and the payment of ecological debts from the Global North to the Global South, while rejecting corporate 'greenwashing' and 'net-zero' strategies.

• The Covid-19 pandemic is viewed not as an isolated health event but as a manifestation of systemic crises caused by capitalist accumulation, including climate, biodiversity, food, water, and care crises.
• Feminist economics proposes placing the 'sustainability of life' at the center of economic organization, which requires a radical redistribution of domestic and care work, as women currently bear the majority of this burden.
• The report argues that a just recovery must involve the decommodification and nationalization of essential public services, including energy, water, and health, to remove them from profit-driven market logic.
• The authors advocate for food sovereignty and small-scale agriculture as essential responses to the food crisis, opposing the industrial agro-model which is linked to the creation of 'sacrifice zones' and the origin of pandemics.
• The document rejects 'net-zero' targets and carbon markets as corporate 'greenwashing' and 'false solutions' that allow transnational corporations to commodify nature and avoid genuine systemic change.
• A just transition requires addressing the 'ecological debt' owed by the Global North to the Global South, suggesting that climate and pandemic financing should be provided as grants or donations rather than loans.
• The report highlights that the pandemic disproportionately affected women, workers, and Black populations, while increasing domestic and sexual violence and overloading women with care work during lockdowns.

APA

Nansen, K., & Faria, N. (2020). FEMINIST ECONOMICS AND ENVIRONMENTALISM FOR A JUST RECOVERY. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/FoEI-WMW-REMTE-feminist-economics-and-environmentalism-Eng-PAGES.pdf

Chicago

Nansen, Karin, and Nalu Faria. FEMINIST ECONOMICS AND ENVIRONMENTALISM FOR A JUST RECOVERY. Friends of the Earth International, 2020. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/FoEI-WMW-REMTE-feminist-economics-and-environmentalism-Eng-PAGES.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{nansen2020feminist, author = {Nansen, Karin and Faria, Nalu}, title = {{FEMINIST ECONOMICS AND ENVIRONMENTALISM FOR A JUST RECOVERY}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2020}, month = oct, url = {https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/FoEI-WMW-REMTE-feminist-economics-and-environmentalism-Eng-PAGES.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }