Nearly 70% of the world’s food is produced by small farmers, in some regions of Africa and India that number is even higher, and at least half of these farmers are women. Our industrial food system, structured around unsustainable extraction, entrenches patterns of patriarchy that are harmful to women. A food system transformation is urgent as we face a polycrises of hunger, climate crisis, and biodiversity loss—and along with it gender inequity. An agroecological transition can address these issues, while simultaneously producing healthy, abundant, culturally appropriate foods by and for local communities around the world. 

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