 Challenge technofix, scientific economic response  Real issues are about principles and ethics of development and trade  Need a framework of gender aware political ecology and economic and social justice

 Real challenge is systemic change  Not global panic leading to technofix  Link climate change to other economic and political injustices: food crisis, militarism, ecological conflicts, consumerism

 Biofuels not about saving the environment; rather, focus is on the reduction of industrialized countries’ dependence on oil rich states  Leading to food scarcity and surging food prices  Carbon trade offs creating wealth for speculators  Energy based on oil, coal and gas is kept cheap to fuel economic growth

 Agrofuels, hydro-electric dams, monoculture tree plantations, GMOs, privatization of resources are increasing vulnerability of women and men in the South to climate change  Technological and economic trade offs on which climate negotiations are based do not address these issues

 Nightmare of environmental crises, dysfunction of urban rural life, lack of water and energy linked to growing food insecurity  Climate crisis and food crisis are part of deep financial crisis and failure of neoliberal capitalism

 Need to realign North-South relations  Reverse dispossession  Recognize the importance of agriculture as a key conflict domain  Challenge corporate control over global food system as key way to tackle systemic causes of climate change

 Agro fuels to provide energy independence for oil dependent countries; this contributed to 75% of food price increase  Rise in fossil fuels affects transport costs and fertilizers leading to food price increase  Changes in consumption patterns due to market led livestock also leads to rise in carbon dioxide emissions

 Desertification and soil degradation leads to changes in local climates and loss of livelihoods, decreased harvests and spread of disease  Financial speculation, futures markets on grains etc. wipes out local farmers  Market led solutions - such as the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) - based on genetic engineering wipes out local farmers, as well  Biotech companies looking for lucrative crops that can handle global warming

 Food distribution and income inequality main reasons for rising prices  Monocultures and corporate control overrides indigenous knowledge and ecologically sustainable management systems  Increased commercialization and privatization of common goods, inequitable property rights, diminished local communities access to the control of resources

 Women are farmers and local food producers  Women and girls represent 60% of those who are going hungry, though they are responsible for producing the majority of the food consumed  Gendered poverty  Buffers of the government removed

 Role of women in agriculture dominant  Women provide the labour for post harvest, storing, handling, stocking  Yet women are not involved in the debates around the food crisis nor climate crisis  Women often seen as victims, not as workers and decision makers of family and community livelihoods

 Rights of people to define their own food and agriculture, domestic agricultural production and trade  Trade policies that promote the rights of people to food and to safe, healthy and ecologically sustainable production

 Need to promote the rights of all to nutrition and life (i.e. affordable, ecological, nutritious and safe food that is not about driving profits and markets)  Bring women farmers and women consumers into the debates  Design bioenergy and ecological policies as part of gender aware rural development strategy  Ensure ongoing mitigation addresses the gender specific impacts of climate change

 Address ethical and policy issues concerning biotechnology, ownership of life, GMOs etc.  Work on radically changing lifestyles and consumer patterns of the North  Link to work of Via Campesina and others in the Climate Justice and Food Sovereignty Movements

 Find out what you are eating, where it is from and where it is processed  Eat less and better  Local commercialization of food  Reshape the industrialized food and agricultural system from where we are living