Matria

MATRIA is a recognition to Earth as the only hometown. The land in which my mother, my father, my grandmothers and all my ancestors sank their hands to feed us, just as 1,200 million peasants continue to feed the planet. Moreover, it is a tribute to peasant women, the heart and engine of family farming, who throughout the planet guarantees food sovereignty and security.

Land grabbing
Land grabbing

MATRIA is a call of alert to the aggressions suffered by mother Earth by agribusiness or large-scale mining, fundamental pillars of a speculative economy that finds food and wild exploitation of huge dividend natural resources. It is also a cry for help in the face of human rights violations suffered by the peasant collective in the World.

Farm workers on the border.
Farm workers on the border.

At the epicenter of this situation is the woman, who suffers from additional problems such as difficulty in accessing the land, a determining issue that leads to structural discrimination (family, social and economic) that generates specific violence.

Battlefield
Battlefield

The significance of the problem of the peasantry is such that in December 2018 the United Nations approved the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas.

Agroecology and feminism.
Agroecology and feminism.

This photographic work proposes a visual story of the reality that the Declaration intends to protect, developing four of the most relevant rights that it encompasses and documenting situations in which they are violated in five different scenarios of the planet. It also contributes the visual footprints of the proposed alternatives emerged from the rural community, with special attention to those carried out by women.