Published in Development dialogue
AMIHAN, the Peasant Women's Federation, is working to counteract the devastating impact on agricultural workers and the environment of the Philippine government policy of appropriating farm land for industrial development purposes. Peasant women organized by AMIHAN have, in some cases, forced survey teams and tractors prepared to clear the land to ...
Published in Development dialogue
Regeneration must take place in order for a society to be sustainable. Patriarchal systems and ways of thinking deny this, however, and hamper or prevent regeneration. Regeneration became devalued when it was assigned the so-called "female and animal" characteristics of passivity, materiality, and nature and, thus, distinguished from the "male and ...
Published in Development dialogue
The experience of 2 peasant women's movements in India's state of Maharashtra--Stri Mukti Sangharsh and Shetkari Mahila Aghadi--highlights the potential power of women in resisting capitalist exploitation of peasant and forest-dwelling communities. The former organization is the women's branch of a movement that is resisting the ecological destruct...
Published in Development dialogue
Women's groups and people's science and health groups formed the Forum Against Sex Determination and Sex Pre-Selection in November 1985 in Bombay, India, to prevent sex determination and sex preselection tests. The Forum considered sex determination and sex preselection to be an abuse of science and technology against people, especially women. Betw...
Published in Development dialogue
Numerous parallels can be drawn between the systematic destruction of Thailand's forests and the emergence, in the same time period, of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) as an irreversible societal crisis. Both the disintegration of the body's defense system implicit in AIDS and the erosion of Thailand's ecosystem provoked by deforestation ...
Published in Development dialogue
When the concept of 'maldevelopment' was launched in the context of the 1975 Dag Hammarskjold Project on Development and International Cooperation, it was primarily intended to characterize the over-supply and over-consumption of inessential and unnecessary goods and services in the industrialized countries and in their small annexes in the Third W...
Published in Development dialogue
On December 2, 1984, in Bhopal, India, more than 40 tons of toxic gas escaped from the Union Carbide (UC) factory, an event predicted by an Indian journalist, whose warnings were ignored. This disaster could have changed the nature of the chemical industry and caused a reexamination of the necessity to produce such potentially harmful technologies....
Published in Development dialogue
The relegation of Third World women to activities involving the maintenance of life and the production of sustenance, while their male counterparts have been drawn into military and profit-making pursuits, has facilitated the emergence of an ecological feminist approach to the destabilization of the world's life-support systems. Women's acceptance ...
Published in Development dialogue
In November 1989, 23 leading hunger experts met in Bellagio, Italy, issues a document called the "Bellagio Declaration: Overcoming Hunger in the 1990s." The report lists 4 achievable goals: eliminate famine deaths; end hunger in half of the world's poorest households; reduce by half malnutrition of mothers and small children; and eradicate iodine a...
Published in Development dialogue
The story of IBFAN, the International Baby Food Action Network, from its beginning with 6 members in 1979, to its status of 140 groups worldwide in 1989 is told by its founder, Annelies Allain. IBFAN celebrated its 10th anniversary in October 1989 with a week-long Forum of 350 organizers from 67 countries. IBFAN is a single-tissue grass-roots organ...
