Seeds, Stories & Solidarity (Fall 2025) - Magazine - Page 50
RFM: How has the conversation around women and
feminism changed in the 30 years since the founding of
La Vía Campesina?
NW: It’s not that we have such a different range of priorities.
But even in that range of policy priorities, for example,
fighting neoliberalism and trade and getting better prices
for [our] products and getting access to land… even in all
of those conversations, the perspectives and experiences
of women change the conversation. It deepens and
changes the orientation because we have a different life
experience. I always say to people, women have to be
there, not because you get a range of voices that are of a
higher timbre and hence you get some harmony. That isn’t
it. It’s not that we just change the range—we change the
tune. And we change it in ways, which, without our insight,
wouldn’t happen.
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