Mujeres y agrocommodities

The document analyzes how the industrial agrocommodity system, driven by transnational corporations and patriarchal logic, causes territorial dispossession, environmental degradation, and systemic violence against women. It details impacts on land access, water quality, health, and food sovereignty, while advocating for a feminist economy of care and agroecology as transformative alternatives.

• The agrocommodity model is characterized by industrial-scale production, often managed by transnational corporations (TNCs), which relies on monocultures and high chemical use. This system leads to land grabbing that excludes small-scale and family farmers and contributes to climate change and biodiversity loss.
• Women face significant barriers to land ownership and decision-making power. While women produce between 60% and 80% of food in non-industrialized countries, only 30% of rural women own agricultural land.
• The expansion of agrocommodities severely impacts water security and health. Large plantations consume vast amounts of water and contaminate sources with agrotóxicos, which specifically harms the reproductive health of women and increases the burden of care for the sick.
• Industrial agriculture drives deforestation, with soy, palm oil, and livestock leading global illegal deforestation rates. Between 2013 and 2019, nearly two-thirds of tropical deforestation was caused by commercial agriculture.
• The agrocommodity model exacerbates gender-based violence, including sexual harassment and physical abuse, particularly in plantations. Women defenders of the territory also face criminalization and persecution.
• Women are organizing to implement alternative models based on agroecology, community forest management, and a feminist economy of care to challenge the patriarchal logic of agribusiness.

APA

Guillén, C. R. (2023). Mujeres y agrocommodities. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/FOEI2-SP-Web.pdf

Chicago

Guillén, Claudia Ramos. Mujeres y agrocommodities. Friends of the Earth International, 2023. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/FOEI2-SP-Web.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{guilln2023mujeres, author = {Guillén, Claudia Ramos}, title = {{Mujeres y agrocommodities}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2023}, url = {https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/FOEI2-SP-Web.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }