<div dir="ltr"><div>saludos a todas.. the document is very good.. we need to clarify what is the long term solution that we are refrerring to, and for wheich we can not wait, thus wse need to go to the short term and medium term solutions.. MY RECOMMENTATIONS IN CAPITALS AND BRACKETS IN THE BODY OF THE DOCUMENT.. BEST.. MARTA BENAVIDES ..EL SALVADOR</div>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial" size="3"><b>Women respond to the Food Crisis: We are part of the solution</b></font> <br></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="3">During the last months, the whole world has been suffering the crisis in food price. According to recent figures today 1.4 billion persons live under the new poverty line of USD 1.25 [PER DAY], and the majority of these are women and girls. Some 850 million persons around the world suffer from hunger and 820 of those 850 million<sup>1</sup> live in developing countries, areas that are likely to be more affected by climate change. These figures are linked to the rise in food price because world provision of cereals in 2007 was 420 million tons, a historical minimum since 1983. According to an OECD report, a third of the rise in agriculture prices foreseen for the next nine years is caused by [OF CEREALS FOR ] biofuels. </font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="3">In Latin America and the Caribbean, more than 50 million people still [haven't got] [HAVE NO] access to adequate food. Child malnutrition, with is negative biological, social and economic effects, is currently affecting more than 9 million children [IN THE REGION], and the achievements in the fight against poverty and indigence are in risk due to lack of food. The problem of poverty and hunger in the region is related to worth wealth distribution and land concentration in the world. </font><font face="Arial" color="#444444" size="3">This results from the neoliberal economic policies of extreme privatization and reduction of national investment imposed by the international financial institutions</font><font face="Arial" size="3"> This situation has had more relevance in Haiti, Argentina, Peru and Mexico and the UN agencies in the region foresee a 5% rise in food prices that will increase indigence in almost one point.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="3">According to FAO, "Latin America and the Caribbean have a 31% surplus in food resources. The region's problem of hunger is therefore not one of production but, rather, one of access to food"<sup>2</sup>. 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.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="3">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</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="3">Food crisis and the rise of prices can bring unpredictable political consequences. If prices continue rising, 10 million more people are in risk of becoming [IMPOVERISHED] poor and a similar number of ALREADY IMPOVERISHED PEOPLE WOULD JOIN THE NUMBER OF THOSE LIVING IN EXTREME POVERTY]. poor people could increase. </font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="3">In view of this situation, we, peasant organizations, and organizations of rural and indigenous women, feminists organizations and other women's networks concerned with overcoming poverty and reaching gender equality [DECLARE] OR [CONCLUDE] report that the current food crisis is the result of the failure of 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). In Latin America and the Caribbean these policies have in brief:</font></p>
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<li><font face="Arial" size="3">reduced the policy space of developing countries to define their own development and rural strategies;</font>
<li><font face="Arial" size="3">Promoted the exportation of national and local agriculture production without considering the need to cover the national demand first.</font>
<li><font face="Arial" size="3">Promoted free trade agreements in unequal basis for developing countries, that raised vulnerabilities of several sectors and social groups, with clear negative effects in rural women in several countries.</font>
<li><font face="Arial" size="3">Supported financial speculation on food and a state that has no longer the role as controller of imports and exports.</font>
<li><font face="Arial" size="3">Have promoted the massive production of agro-fuels.</font>
<li><font face="Arial" size="3">Have ignored the role in promoting agricultural adapatation and of land property of the peasant an rural communities where the role of women is key. </font>
<li><font face="Arial" size="3">Have prioritized the servicing of the foreing debt in detriment of public domestic investment with a gender perspective in the national agricultural sector.</font>
<li><font face="Arial" size="3">Promoted national poverty reduction strategies without considering inequality differences and discriminations.</font>
<li><font face="Arial" size="3">Promoted the reduction of the role of the state in all policies, particularly in rural development and market regulation, but also in social policies.</font> </li></li></li></li></li></li>
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<p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="3">Through the above-mentioned actions [THOSE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS] they have contributed to worsening the difficult living conditions of millions of peasants, and, particularly, for the most vulnerable groups: women, indigenous women and boys and girls.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="3">The immediate solution to this crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean can be developed through short and medium term actions, we cannot let [WAIT FOR ] the solution for the long term because it will be too late. </font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="3">We call for the following urgent actions in the short term:</font></p>
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<li><font face="Arial" size="3">Establishment of national agricultural policies with a gender perspective and with a significant budget as part of a broader programme of national investment, prepared with the participation of all stakeholders. </font>
<li><font face="Arial" size="3">Development of policies and strategies with gender perspective that take into consideration the role, responsibilities and rights of men, women, according to age and ethnicity.</font>
<li><font face="Arial" size="3">Immediate implementation of support programmes and economic subsidies, in the countries of the region, addressing the poorest sectors of the population, including school lunch programmes, delivery of food packages, particularly for women who are household heads, employment programmes.</font>
<li><font face="Arial" size="3">Implementation of the process of land reform and actions to overcome legal and economic obstacles so that women can have access to resources and benefits such as access to land, water, credit and all the inputs for basic production.</font>
<li><font face="Arial" size="3">Development of flexible micro-financing programmes that respond to debts contracted by indigenous and rural women.</font>
<li><font face="Arial" size="3">Development and support of programmes and actions based on traditional knowledge, particularly in what refers to conservation and exchange of native seeds.</font>
<li><font face="Arial" size="3">Developed countries must reach their commitment to allocate 0.7% of their GDP in Official Development Aid (ODA) and make explicit work plans to achieve this commitment; and moreover they should commit to reach 10% of ODA for gender equality and women's empowerment by 2010 and 20% by 2015, setting out in the action plan of donors, recipient countries and the DAC strategies for reaching the target, monitoring performance and evaluating impact.<sup>3</sup></font>
<li><font face="Arial" size="3">The international community must commit to advance in the gaps of MDG8 and its negative effects in poverty, inequality, and the current financial, food, energetic and climate change crisis that particularly affect women.</font> </li>
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<p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="3">We call for the following actions in the medium term:</font></p>
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<li><font face="Arial" size="3">Promote studies and analysis to visualize the impact of food crisis and the strategies for sustainable livelihoods for rural, urban poor and indigenous women.</font>
<li><font face="Arial" size="3">Support investment in family agriculture and improve markets, promoting the fair trade approach to enable the marketization of women smallholders' products. </font>
<li><font face="Arial" size="3">Eliminate export barriers with the objective of encouraging small farmers to increase their cropping areas.</font>
<li><font face="Arial" size="3">Review the criteria for aid allocation and debt relief, including the inequality dimension and considering the particularities of middle income countries, where women confront the multiplier effect of inequalities and discrimination. </font></li>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="3"><b>Signatures</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="3">Action Aid</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="3">AWID</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="3">Feminist Task Force, GCAP</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="3">Gender and Education Office (GEO) from ICAE</font></p></div><br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">2008/9/19 Ana Agostino <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ana@icae.org.uy" target="_blank">ana@icae.org.uy</a>></span><br>
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<div>queridas amigas (español abajo),</div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">As you know, the HLE on the MDGs is already next week and there is a particular concern around the lack of progress on MDG 3. </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">You will recall the initiative sent by Alejandra inviting us to issue a statement on women and the food crisis. There has been a lot of progress on this as a result of the combined effort of several organisations. I am attaching the final version in English and will circulate the Spanish one a bit later today. Please indicate if you will like to add your name/ the name of your organisation. We will give distribute it broadly while in New York and use it as an important advocacy tool.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">We look forward to your signatures, comments and support. Thanks!</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Ana </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Queridas amigas,</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">ya la próxima semana comienza el evento de alto nivel en torno a los ODM con una preocupación especial por la falta de avances en torno al objetivo 3.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Recordarán que hace poco Alejandra nos convocó a preparar un comunicado sobre las mujeres y la crisis alimentaria. Hemos avanzado mucho en esto gracias al trabajo conjunto de varias organizaciones. Les adjunto la versión final en inglés y la versión en español la enviaré seguramente esta tarde. </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Les agradecemos que nos indiquen si desean sumarse con su firma / la firma de vuestra organización a esta declaración. Le vamos a dar una amplia difusión en Nueva York y la usaremos como una herramienta importante de incidencia. </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Esperamos vuestras firmas, comentarios y apoyo. Gracias!</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Un abrazo,</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Ana</font></div>
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<p><b><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Cc:</span></font></b><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <a title="mailto:RosaenCasa@aol.com" href="mailto:RosaenCasa@aol.com" target="_blank">RosaenCasa@aol.com</a> </span></font></p>
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<p><b><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sent:</span></font></b><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Friday, September 05, 2008 10:08 AM</span></font></p>
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<p><b><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Subject:</span></font></b><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> [Gcap-women] WHAT IS AT STAKE FOR WOMEN IN THE CONTEXT OF FOODCRISIS</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dear women,</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">As you know the UN Secretary-General and the President of the UN General Assembly will convene a <b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">High-level Event on the Millennium Development Goals at UN Headquarters in </span></b></span></font><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font color="black"><span style="COLOR: black">New York</span></font><font color="black"><span style="COLOR: black"> on 25 September 2008. </span></font></span></font></b></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We are the halfway point towards the target date, some significant progress has been made, true, but urgent and increased efforts are needed by all stakeholders in order to meet the Goals by 2015. <b><i><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-STYLE: italic">Does this sound familiar</span></i></b><i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">?</span></i></span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Groups such as GCAP, African NGOs and Networks, ActionAid and its HungerFree Campaign, and others are reuniting again and collaborating since they are considering this another opportunity to tell world leaders that reviewing is just not enough, that we need to move towards action NOW.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Some of us are also analyzing how the MDGs specific plans and proposals will specially target the recent challenge of <b><i><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-STYLE: italic">Rising Food Prices</span></i></b>. As we, women, improve our analysis of this analysis, we are also witnessing sad stories about how this is impacting on the capacity of children women and men have a dignified life and their human rights being eroded. Food crisis, among other things, is impacting on nutritional levels, income of households, and number of more people suffering from hunger and impoverishment increases too.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">In early 2008, the UN Secretary-General assembled a food crisis task force of UN agencies, which put together and is carrying out a coordinated action plan to improve agricultural capacity and access to food. This task force is gender blind and ActionAid is among other civil society groups participating in it to promote inclusion of a women's rights analysis. </span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Many of us are also actively participating in other issues that are also interrelated such as Aid effectiveness, Financing for Development and Challenges to achieve MDGs in </span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font color="black"><span style="COLOR: black">Africa</span></font><font color="black"><span style="COLOR: black">. It may be good to unity our efforts and analysis and prepare some concrete actions for September:</span></font></span></font></p>
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<p><b><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">In a context of very limited CSO participation, I see here some concrete opportunities:</span></font></b></p>
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<li style="COLOR: black"><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">One, bring back again our analysis on MDGs, recover some of that energy and ask the groups that will be in NY to disseminate our messages and policy asks. I have tried to make an attempt of a statement we had worked also with Marcela Ballara from FAO. It would be very good if we pull together a declaration and ask for sign ons. See drafts attached. We need to come up with a mixture of MDGs and Food crisis context Experience of WEDO, DAWN, FTF GCAP, AWID, CGWL and others is very much needed to pull a strong document that also talks to aid effectiveness, FfD. Also some boxes with concrete voices from groups working with rural women. <b><u><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Deadline: 12 September??</span></u></b></span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font><b><u><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></u></b></li>
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<li style="COLOR: black"><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The second intervention we may have is to comment on the <b><i><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-STYLE: italic">Task force on Food Crisis document.</span></i></b> We have not much time for this. Please see document attached. It would be good if we have also communication with Agencies working on this such as UNDP, UNIFEM, FAO, WFP, UNICEF, etc. We could organize conversations with our friends inside those spaces as to see how we can more effectively work together and even think of a representation of women's groups inside that task force.</span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></li>
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<li style="COLOR: black"><b><i><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">GCAP Tribunals on Poverty</span></font></i></b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">. Use that opportunity to showcase our demands. I am sure you are already planning lots of actions. May be we could pull together videos, posters, testimonies and send it to FTF GCAP?</span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></li>
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