Food sovereignty through a healthy and solidarity-based model of resilient production, consumption, and marketing in the face of climate change by empowered and organized rural women from the El Paisnal and Aguilares districts, San Salvador Norte Municipality.
CORDESBackground Information
The project aims to address the issue of rights violations regarding organization, participation, advocacy, healthy food, and economic rights among women in El Paisnal and Aguilares, focusing on the categories of availability, accessibility, acceptability, quality, participation, and sustainability. With the project: a) 100 women will be strengthened and empowered to implement diversified and climate-resilient production systems with an agroecological approach for production and marketing based on the Social and Solidarity Economy; b) 100 producer families will enhance their capacities in nutritional education and adopt healthy eating practices, promoting shared responsibility in caregiving with a gender approach; c) the individual capacities and organizational skills of 100 women will be strengthened to empower them for organizational advocacy and influence local policies with a gender perspective.
Location
El Paisnal and Aguilares
Local partner
CORDES
Goals
Overall Goal: Promote an alternative model of life and sustainable local development that contributes to the dynamization of the solidarity economy, ecological practices, and climate resilience for women in San Salvador Norte, El Salvador.
Specific Goal:Promote food sovereignty through a healthy and solidarity-based model of resilient production, consumption, and marketing in the face of climate change by empowered and organized rural women from the El Paisnal and Aguilares districts, San Salvador Norte Municipality.
Target population
(100 women and 100 men)
Duration of the project
Budget
Funding
TAU, DFG (99.963€)
Activities:
- • 28 training sessions with 100 women on Food Sovereignty, Climate-Resilient Practices in Agricultural Production, and the rescue and preservation of heirloom seeds.
• Establishment of 100 agroecological production systems with climate-resilient practices: 2 poultry farms and 98 productive units for vegetables and staple grains.
• Establishment of 25 productive units using heirloom seeds.
• Training sessions on basic finance from a Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) perspective.
• Development of 3 marketing and consumption fairs.
• 4 training sessions with 100 men on new masculinities and shared responsibility in caregiving.
• 20 training sessions on hygiene habits, good manufacturing practices, food preservation, and preparation of nutritious foods.
• Development of two fairs for the consumption of healthy, nutritious, and environmentally sustainable food.
• Development of 24 training sessions with 100 women on self-esteem, self-knowledge, gender, citizen participation, human rights, gender identity, the environment, and ecofeminism.
• Formation of 4 community women’s committees.
• Active participation in 3 advocacy activities (1 International Women’s Day, 1 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, 1 Rural Women’s Day).
