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Green Economy, Value Chains & the Inclusion of Women

Green Economy, Value Chains & the Inclusion of Women. Dr.Christa Wichterich/WIDE+ HU, Berlin, 25.1.2013. Solve the Crisis through Green Economy.

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Green Economy, Value Chains & the Inclusion of Women

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  1. Green Economy, Value Chains & the Inclusion of Women Dr.Christa Wichterich/WIDE+ HU, Berlin, 25.1.2013

  2. Solve the Crisis through Green Economy • UN/UNEP 2008 – fix the financial/economic & the climate crisis... transition from brown to green economy... through „power of the market“, green investment/ technology/jobs... „abandon business as usual“... „alternative paradigm“... transformation... • UNEP 2009: Global Green New Deal: 3 objectives 1) economic recovery 2) poverty reduction 3) reduction of carbon emissions & ecosystem degradation • OECD 2011: „Green Growth“ • European Commission 2011: „competitive low-carbon society“ • Normative definition: „GE... results in improved well-being & social equity while significantly reducing environmental risks & ecological scarcities“... „Greening = driver for growth“ Making business/capitalism more sustainable

  3. Main Assumption of Green Economy:Protect nature by putting monetary value on it Economisation of nature – internalisation of costs • Ecological economics: natural capital & ecosystems create value/ are productive Market instruments of validation • Patenting & trade in intellectual property rights (TRIPS) • „Economics of climate change“ (N.Stern): CDM, PES, REDD, REDD+ - trade in emission rights • TEEB-study – economic validation of ecosystem services & biodiversity • Financialisation of nature: Rio+20: Natural Capital Declaration by banks/investors/insurers Nature is separated from social realm & livelihoods of people

  4. Women‘s Participation in Green GrowthA Potential Fully Realised? World Bank: 1) gender equality = smart economics = neoliberal empowerment 2) Green growth = efficient, clean, resilient & inclusive UNEP: hardly a gender perspective, no human rights or justice frame EU Greens‘ Green New Deal: hardly any gender-sensitive & gender- just perspective (Mara Kuhl) DCED/BMZ: Development aid = assistance to private sector development

  5. Inclusion of Women- Inclusive Liberalism GEN- DER MO- DER- NISA- TION GEN- DER ESSEN- TIA- LISM - Flexible workers in green value chains • Small & medium entrepreneurs • Green & ethical consumers • Care workers for families, esp. food security • Contract labourers • Inclusive business models e.g. smallholders, small scale farmers, feminised agriculture, poor • Actors in climate adaptation • Customers of microcredits & microinsurance • Remittances of migrant agricultural workers & berry pickers Exclusion is a problem but inclusion as well!

  6. Restructuring Agriculture & Reconceptionalisationof Food Security

  7. Climate Smart Agriculture & Women • World Bank proposed to include agriculture in CDM: win-win-situation • All forms that reduce emissions from soil or absorb CO2 in the soil, mixed agriculture, agroforestry, tree planting • Conservation agriculture without ploughing, less CO2- emissions, promoted by e.g. Monsanto, presently practised in Brasil • Women smale scale farmers = prime target group, validation of their work through integration in market mechanism but dependant from financial market

  8. Economisation ofAgricultural NatureCulture & Undermining Moral Economy • Expansion market rationale asubordination of logic of care/social reproduction/subsistence e.g. waste land & untapped resource • Conflict between renewable energy & food security • Contradiction between market framework & human/women‘s rights framework e.g. financialisation • Conflict between scientific knowledge & local knowledge • Tension between individual rights & commons Result in ambivalences in subjectivities & multiple identities „What could be a burden for a city woman, for us is a space of power“ Feminist political ecology & economy have to analyse those contradictions & ambivalences

  9. „Green Economy is a False Solution“ ...“new form of colonisation & appropriation of the natural resources of the South“

  10. Women against the Commodification of our Bodies, our Lives & Nature 18.6.2012 Rio de Janeiro WMW „We need to overcome this model of development.“

  11. Thank you for your attention!Parto, towards buen vivir!

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