{"id":3487,"date":"2015-08-07T23:23:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T23:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/safsc.org.za\/?p=3487"},"modified":"2015-10-07T13:49:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T13:49:38","slug":"south-african-food-sovereignty-campaign-statement-womens-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/south-african-food-sovereignty-campaign-statement-womens-day\/","title":{"rendered":"South African Food Sovereignty Campaign Statement &#8211; Women&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">The South African Food\u00a0Sovereignty Campaign (SAFSC) celebrates Women&#8217;s Day on the\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_456160700\"><span class=\"aQJ\">9th of August<\/span><\/span>. We celebrate women, who are responsible for over half of the world&#8217;s food production and who, in the context of existing gender relations in South Africa, are predominantly the ones who make sure that households and families are fed, amidst conditions of widespread hunger. This is because there is a food crisis, in which massive levels of food waste (about a third of food produced in South Africa goes to waste) exist alongside the reality that 53% of our population experience hunger either intermittently or regularly. It is poor and working class women that are the shock absorbers of this crisis.\u00a0 Women\u2019s unpaid care work includes preparation (and often production) of food, care of the young, the old and the sick, and for the millions of Africans living in rural areas and informal settlements without basic services, collecting water and fuel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Rising food prices means working class women working harder and longer to stretch meagre wages and social grants further. The dynamics of patriarchy often means that women face hunger more often than men. Furthermore, women still face unequal ownership and access to land, especially in the former homelands, and this is being intensified as the power of\u00a0chiefs is asserted through a number of pieces of legislation and state processes.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">However, working class and poor women are also not passive victims. Many are playing a crucial role in addressing hunger, sometimes in survivalist, defensive and ameliorative ways, but also in challenging the neo- liberal food regime and promoting alternatives such as food sovereignty. On this Women\u2019s Day we should re-affirm our demand for gender justice, to challenge the conditions that undermine women&#8217;s everyday freedom from hunger, poverty and subordination, which requires the total social transformation of the present unjust and unequal society.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">ENDS<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><b>For more information, contact Katherine 083 299 6750 or Davine 071 592 2361<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo ajU\">\n<div id=\":ty\" class=\"ajR\" tabindex=\"0\" data-tooltip=\"Show trimmed content\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ajT\" src=\"https:\/\/ssl.gstatic.com\/ui\/v1\/icons\/mail\/images\/cleardot.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Food\u00a0Sovereignty Campaign (SAFSC) celebrates Women&#8217;s Day on the\u00a09th of August. We celebrate women, who are responsible for over half of the world&#8217;s food production and who, in the context of existing gender relations in South Africa, are predominantly the ones who make sure that households and families are fed, amidst conditions of&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/south-african-food-sovereignty-campaign-statement-womens-day\/\" class=\"excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3490,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487\/revisions\/3490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}