Read the combined position paper from Azra Sayeed (Roots for Equity) and Norma Maldonado (Tierra Verde 13 Aj, Guatemala) on behalf of the Women’s Major Group. “Women’s rights have been severely curtailed by the industrialization of agriculture. The Green Revolution of the 1960s exposed small and landless farmers across the South, especially in Asia, to a wide range of negative social and ecological conditions, and compounded the exploitation experienced by women under existing feudal and patriarchal systems”. Download the paper here.
