[Ftffacilitationteam] URGENT _ PLEASE REPLY

Mie Nov 5 11:06:53 GMT+2 2008

Dear all,
if we are going to get anything done for a presentation in Doha and go with some printed materials, we need your inputs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Marcela has sent her bullets on the climate change (which I copy below) and I have sent mine on the food crisis (also below). We still need to get the ones on the financial crisis. 
PLEASE send your comments by tomorrow, othewise we will NOT HAVE TIME to get this ready for Doha. 
Thanks!!!
Ana

Queridas todas,
si vamos a presentar una actividad en Doha y entregar materiales impresos, precisamos el aporte de todas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Marcela envió el texto de cambio climático (copiado abajo) y yo el de la crisis alimentaria (también abajo). Nos queda recibir el de la crisis financiera.
POR FAVOR envíen vuestros comentarios a más tardar mañana, si no NO TENDREMOS TIEMPO de llegar con nada pronto a Doha.
Gracias!
Ana

Bullets on Gender and Climate Change 

Gender, like poverty, is a cross cutting issue in climate change and needs to be recognized as such. In fact, gender and poverty are interrelated and create mutually reinforcing barriers to social change. It is widely acknowledged that the negative effects of Climate Change are likely to hit the poorest people in the poorest countries disproportionately, making them more vulnerable to Climate Change

The lack of attention to gender issues in climate change is a result of the overall resilience of negotiators to focus their attention on this issue. But also on the fact that poor and marginalized men and women have a limited ability to cope with adaptive and mitigative activities 

Mitigation is about preventing or limiting the occurrence of climate change. Mitigation focuses on tackling the very cause of climate change  and it has been  broadly recognize  that women socio-economic situation and   needs  must be a priority  in any sustainable development and  climate  change  mitigation strategies .  When addressing greenhouse gas removals and emissions it should include additional human-induced activities, specifically, forest management, cropland management, grazing, land management and re vegetation. In all the interventions designed to improve these supplies   women and girls play a crucial role especially in developing countries.

Vulnerability and adaptation are largely social issues and therefore the issue of gender should play a more explicit role in adaptation studies, projects and policy. Gender roles in society and in the division of labor should be acknowledged in the adaptation process. Climate change will have impacts on food security, freshwater supply, rural and urban settlements and their infrastructure, even if emissions would be curbed immediately.

Impacts of Climate Change on gender relations: Climate Change exacerbates shortfalls in water resources and fuel wood. Women and young girls usually have to spend more time to fetch water or wood, increasing their workloads and limiting their opportunities to be involved in non-traditional activities.

Moreover, spending more time on traditional reproductive tasks re-enforces traditional roles and magnify burdens of care resulting in a overload of work.  Therefore we can the effects of Climate Change can work against a change in which women might begin to play other roles. Climate Change has impact on gender equality that lead to changes in gender relations

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Ana Agostino 
To: ftffacilitationteam en listas.chasque.net 
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 3:23 PM
Subject: [Ftffacilitationteam] Paragraphs on food crisis

Dear all,
as agreed upon, here go the paragraphs I suggest on food crisis and women for the brochure we are preparing. Marcela has already sent the ones she prepared on climate change. We have not received any comments yet. PLEASE do send your comments to Marcela's and my paragraphs. It is important that we have this brochure made as a collective effort of the facilitation team. Thanks,
Ana

Amigas,
como habíamos acordado, aquí van los párrafos que sugiero para el folleto de la FTF en el tema crisis alimentaria. Marcela ya mandó los suyos sobre cambio climático sólo que por el momento no hemos recibido ningún comentario. Les agradezco que envíen comentarios tanto a los de Marcela como a los míos. Es fundamental que saquemos este folleto como esfuerzo conjunto del equipo de trabajo feminista. 
Saludos,
Ana

P.S. Paragraphs below and as attachment
P.D. Los párrafos siguen a continuación y también como adjunto.

PARAGRAPHS ON FOOD CRISIS - DRAFT

At a time where the world is confronted by a serious food crisis, we, as women active in the global call to action against poverty, affirm that the world's raising problem of hunger is not a problem of production but of access to food, as there is a surplus in food resources. Beyond economic trends, climatic or protectionist factors that have an important impact on the current crisis, the main problem of this food crisis is the lack of access to land and properties and consequently to food, particularly among rural and indigenous women and household heads.

This situation is worsened when neutral policies are implemented that underestimate and ignore the role and contribution of rural and indigenous women in food production and through development strategies that have no gender perspective, with a negative impact on women's living conditions and their possibilities of contributing to food production and rural, local and regional development. 

Since our inception, as FTF we have been advocating to put an end to the structural and macroeconomic policies implemented during the last 30 years under the leadership of the international financial institutions (IMF, WB, IDB and the WTO); we have called for a reform of these institutions so that the economy becomes a tool to support the fulfilment of the needs and aspiration of human beings and not in end in itself that only aims at obtaining profit for the few. 

We have therefore called and continue to encourage governments around the world, together with a broad spectrum of women's organisations, to establish national agricultural budgets with a gender perspective and with sufficient funds allocation; to take into consideration the experience, role, responsibility and rights of men and women according to age and ethnicity; to secure women's access to tenure of land and the necessary resources and credit to work that land; to develop and support programmes and actions based on traditional knowledge, particularly in what refers to conservation and exchange of native seeds; for industrialised countries to reach the 1970s commitment to allocate 0.7% of their GDP to Official Development Aid (ODA) and moreover they should commit to reach 10% of ODA for gender equality and women's empowerment by 2010 and 20% by 2015. 

We believe that the current food, financial and climate crisis are interlinked and that our demands to overcome each of them is a demand to build a just and sustained economic, social and cultural system where the knowledge, practice and care of women are to be seen as examples that can provide solutions to those problems and must receive financial support from governments and international agencies. 

Ana Agostino
ICAE
International Council for Adult Education
General Secretariat
18 de Julio 2095 - Apto  301
11200 Montevideo - Uruguay
Tel/fax: 005982 409 79 82
E-mail: ana en icae.org.uy 
www.icae.org.uy

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