Women From Rural, Forest, and Waterside Communities Fighting for Comprehensive and Popular Agrarian Reform

Feb 21, 2026 | La Via Campesina
La Via Campesina
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Grassroots feminist women know that there can be no food sovereignty without women’s autonomy, just as there can be no social justice without land redistribution and secured access to the commons for the sustainability of life. Defending the land means defending the possibility of existing with dignity, deciding what to grow, what to eat, how to live, and who occupies the territory. In this sense, agrarian reform is not just a policy—it is a feminist struggle that challenges the foundations of the patriarchal, colonial, and capitalist power that organizes the exploitation of land, nature, and women’s labor.