An agri-food model from the crossroads between feminism and agroecology. The case of the Women's Front of the Land Workers Union - Argentina

Abstract

This article analyzes the organizational experience of the Gender Front of the Land Workers Union –UTT-, a national organization that brings together around 20,000 families of small producers in the Argentine Republic. At present, this rural social movement prefigures new experiences of struggle and organization, from a class and gender perspective, betting on the construction of an alternative agri-food model to the patriarchal capitalist agribusiness, hegemonic paradigm of social and productive relations in rural areas. . Through the analysis of articles, bibliography and testimonies of referents of the organization, it is proposed to show how the construction and implementation of a new agri-food model with a gender perspective is an existing reality in various parts of the country, based on the politics and the doing of the Union of Workers of the Earth and the secretariat of Gender of the organization. In a capitalist and patriarchal system where agribusiness prevails as a paradigm and model of productive, economic and social relations, it is interesting to investigate, learn about and systematize an alternative proposal, which raises new forms of organization, production and commercialization, from an approach that contemplates the social dimension of peasant labor with a gender perspective, understanding that there is no possibility of transforming the current system, without disrupting the generic sex relations of oppression and exploitation that operate in the rural food-producing sector