Tag: gender and urban gardening

• How the women, the poorest of the poor, are taking control in leading their families to food security.

  

  For many women, urban agriculture is a means to provide some form of food security, and a means of social interaction, self-fulfillment and escape from the obligations, relationships and hierarchies of everyday life. Though these activities were seen to empower women and challenge patriarchal relations, this also evoked resistance. Women from Inity explained how they…

  April Marie Canillo

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  The Twenty Thirty Project

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