In the South, women are the main producers of food, in charge of working the land, keep the seeds, collect fruits, getting water ... ... Between 60 and 80% food production in these countries falls on women, 50% worldwide. These are the main producers of staple crops like rice, wheat and maize, which feed the poorest populations in the global South. But despite its key role in agriculture and food, they are, along with children, those most affected by hunger.
Rural women were responsible for centuries of domestic chores, caring for people, feed their families, the cultivation for self-consumption and marketing of some surplus from their gardens, carrying the reproductive work productive and community, occupying a private sphere invisible. Instead, the main agricultural economic transactions have been traditionally performed by men, fairs, buying and selling animals, the commercialization of large quantities of grain ... peasant occupying the public sphere.
This division of roles assigned to women home care, health, education and families and gives people the management of land and machinery, in short, the "technical", and the untouched roles as male and female, and that for centuries, and even today, persist in our societies.
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