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- Agriculture, trade negotiations and gender
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Women and men are not evenly represented among the various agricultural sectors such as livestock farming or export crops. These sectors are differently affected by trade liberalization, and therefore the consequences for women and men are not the same. Existing gender gaps may increase or shrink. Additionally, since women and men often have different education, income and skills, their capacity to respond to changes in policy also varies. This paper discusses some relevant gender-related issues regarding the implications that the agricultural trade expansion and liberalization have on aspects linked to gender inequalities that exist in the agricultural and rural sector (Zoraida Garcia, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2006).
http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/a0493e/a0493e00.htm#Contents
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- IGTN Resources onTrade
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International Gender and Trade Network website that hosts IGTN reports, press releases, daily updates and analysis.
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- International Gender & Trade Network
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The International Gender and Trade Network is a network of feminist gender specialists who provide technical information on gender and trade issues to women's groups, NGOs, social movements and governments. IGTN acts as a political catalyst to enlarge the space for a critical feminist perspective and global action on trade and globalization issues. It is a Southern-led network that builds South/North cooperation in the work of developing more just and democratic policy from a critical feminist perspective. IGTN is organized in eight regions: Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Central Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America and the Pacific.
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- Trade in the Americas: Women Central to the Debate (pdf)
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This report looks at US plans for trade agreements with Latin American countries. It oulines the common criticisms of these: that they are the wrong model for regional integration; that they lack democracy (accountability, transparency and meaningful dialogue); that they threaten food security, food sovereignty and agriculture; that they threaten human rights, access to essential medicines and essential services such as water; and the effects of foreign investment. It explains how women's vocies are missing from the debate. (Alexandra Spieldoch, Center of Concern, January 2006)
http://www.igtn.org/pdfs//TradeintheAmericas.pdf
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- Trading away our rights: women working in global supply chains
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Globalisation has drawn millions of women into paid employment across the developing world. Today, supermarkets and clothing stores source the products that they sell from farms and factories worldwide. At the end of their supply chains, the majority of workers - picking and packing fruit, sewing garments, cutting flowers - are women. Their work is fuelling valuable national export growth. And their jobs could be providing the income, security, and support needed to lift them and their families out of poverty. Instead, women workers are systematically being denied their fair share of the benefits brought by globalisation.(PDF 4235k)
http://www.maketradefair.org/en/assets/english/taor.pdf
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- Women's Edge Coalition
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The Women's Edge Coalition, a non-partisan organization, was created in 1998 to advocate for the needs of millions of women and poor people around the world left destitute and desperate by unfair trade policies. The Coalition offers positive alternatives to current policies and pushes for innovative aid programs to ensure women around the world are not forgotten and in fact given access to the trade negotiation process. By revising the process of economic and trade negotiations, both trade promoters and the world's poorest women and people benefit.
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- Women's role in trade needs more recognition
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JOHANNESBURG, 13 Jan 2003 (IRIN) - The role of women as an engine for trade and development in Southern Africa needs better recognition, Mauritian Minister for Women's Rights Arianne Navarre-Marie told NGOs on Monday meeting to discuss US-African trade cooperation. A report released earlier this year by the International Food Policy Research Institute said that women in sub-Saharan Africa supply over 70 percent of agricultural labour, were agricultural innovators and providers of family care and nutrition, but their needs had been neglected.
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