Food production systems in Africa are founded on values centered around incomes and profitability that Nidhi Tandon challenges. Unless and until the over-emphasis on the values that underpin the global market economy is reversed, equality and equity for women is doomed.
If there is one core factor underpinning systemic power imbalances between women and men in the food system, it is the overriding influence of the 'market place' on society. Societal power and earning capacity make up the two sides of the same coin - one feeds the other.
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