Women Farmers in Chile to Teach the Region Agroecology
by The Daily Eye Team January 9 2014, 11:31 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 24 secsSANTIAGO, Jan 04 (IPS) – An organisation that brings together some 10,000 peasant and indigenous women from Chile is launching anagroecology institute for women campesinos, or small farmers, in South America. For years, the National Association of Rural and Indigenous Women (ANAMURI) has been training thousands of people through La Vía Campesina, the international peasant movement, working on the basis of food sovereignty, which asserts the right of people to define their own food systems.