SPEAKING INGLES

RURAL WOMENs

Mar Garrote

Work

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Ask for women

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Project

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As a problem stands out

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SPECIFIC DEMAND FOR RURAL WOMEN

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Mar Garrote is an educator and farmer, she grows food in a vegetable garden in Zeberio (Bizkaia) which she sells in short circuits, in consumer groups and small shops.

The social, environmental and economic sustainability of rural areas requires women to take root.

She is part of the collective project Maskilu, an agro-ecological cannery, and of the women's collective Etxaldeko Emakumeak, which puts food sovereignty and agro-ecofeminism into practice.

"Food sovereignty is our goal, and the way to achieve it is called agroecology. We peasant women make up less than 3% of the population, we need the whole of society to do it. We believe that food sovereignty and feminism have to go hand in hand because this peasant model wants to put life at the centre.

As a peasant woman, it is not easy to set up in the primary sector from an agro-ecological model. It is difficult to live in the countryside and from the land from a peasant model in the face of an agro-industrial model, which monopolises almost everything. And you find that politics is made from an urban perspective".