Why do women want land? Between agroecology and feminism: The Network of Rural Women of Costa Rica

Abstract

The environmental, economic and food crises have demonstrated the limitations of the capitalist system to feed large populations in different latitudes, as well as to demonstrate the forms of production with high impact and deterioration of nature and their no capacity to recover from this deterioration. The process of dispossession of land and property is based on the deepening of relations of subordination and submission of peoples and particularly of women. Participatory action research allowed to know the deterioration of the environment, the impact on the communities, in the productive base, elements of the agro-industrial model and the increase of control mechanisms on women; at the same time find the concretion in daily practice towards food sovereignty; with agroecology and feminism as conceptual instruments and political criticism.