The main objective is to analyze the implementation of public policies derived from critical narratives of the expansionist, corporate and liberalizing agribusiness model. To this end, we analyze the roles and conditions of Ecuadorian indigenous women in food sovereignty production systems. First, the analytical frameworks of agro-economic policy and rural development models are examined, as well as their relationship to gender studies and human rights. Second, fieldwork is conducted in two case studies identified as exemplary: in the canton of Ibarra, Imbabura province, and in the cantons of Pedro Moncayo and Cayambe, Pichincha province. The research is based on Constructivist Grounded Theory through methodological triangulation in documentary analysis, seventeen semi-structured interviews with key actors and participant observation. It is determined that public agrifood policies of food sovereignty is based on narratives disconnected from the realities and conditions of indigenous women farmers. Therefore, structural deficiencies are absorbed into the productive, reproductive and political roles of women producers.
Authors
- Bibliographic Reference
- Camila Cuevas. Indigenous peasant women in Ecuador: Agents of food sovereignty ? 2009-2017. Humanities and Social Sciences. 2022. ⟨dumas-03944377⟩
- HAL Collection
- ['Université Sorbonne Nouvelle', 'Institut des Hautes Études de l’Amérique latine', 'Campus-AAR', 'Collection LaCAS - Open Archives in Language and Cultural Area Studies', 'DUMAS', 'CONDORCET3', 'CAMPUS CONDORCET']
- HAL Identifier
- 3944377
- Institution
- ['Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3', 'Stockholm University', 'Universidad de Salamanca']
- Published in
- France
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction 9
- 1.1 Justification & Research Questions 10
- 1.2 Research Methodology 13
- 1.3 Contribution of the research to the literature 16
- 1.4 Outline of Dissertation 17
- 2. Theoretical Framing 19
- 2.1 Malnutrition and Food Security 19
- 2.2 Food Sovereignty (FS) 24
- 2.3 Gender Studies (GS) 25
- 3. Bringing Together: FS, GS & Food Security 29
- 3.1 Conceptual & Analytical Levels of FS 29
- 3.1.1 Agrifood Regimes and Systems 29
- 3.1.2. Agroecology and Short Food Circuits (SFC) 32
- 3.2 Contours of the debate: FS & Food Security 35
- 3.2.1. Food Safety: Principles & Objectives 35
- 3.2.2. FS as an Alternative Agrifood System 36
- 3.2.3. Conceptual integration: dialectic relationship between FS & Food Safety 40
- 3.3 Relationship between FS & GS 42
- 3.3.1 FS & Human Rights 43
- 3.3.2 FS & Feminist Movements 44
- 4. Territorial development: FS & GS 47
- 4.1. FS & IPW Approaches 47
- 4.1.1 Perspective from and on Latin America 47
- 4.1.2. The paradigmatic case of Ecuador 50
- 4.2 FS models in Ecuador 53
- 4.2.1 Social actors and LORSA 53
- 4.2.2. FS at provincial and cantonal level 59
- 4.2.2 Legal framework 60
- 5. Case Study in the Northern Inter-Andean Highlands 63
- Insights from the interviews 63
- 5.2. Specificities per Case Study 71
- 5.2.3. Province of Pichinga, Canton of Cayambe and Pedro Moncayo 71
- 5.2.4. Province of Imbabura, Canton of Ibarra 72
- Concluding remarks 73
- 6. Conclusion 74
- 7. Bibliography 76
- 8. Appendix 81
- Appendix A. Supplementary information on methodology 81
- Appendix B. Template of questions for the semi-structured interviews 88
- Appendix C. Original quotations 90
- Appendix D. Constructivist Grounded Theory 92
- Appendix E. Fieldwork Photographs 95
