Events – Pastoral Women Alliance https://pastoralwomenalliance.org pastoral women alliance Wed, 16 Sep 2020 09:58:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://pastoralwomenalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-512x512-site-identity-32x32.png Events – Pastoral Women Alliance https://pastoralwomenalliance.org 32 32 Pastoral Food Festival Organised in India https://pastoralwomenalliance.org/events/pastoral-food-festival-organised-india/ https://pastoralwomenalliance.org/events/pastoral-food-festival-organised-india/#respond Tue, 04 Dec 2018 12:07:56 +0000 http://pastoralwomenalliance.org/?post_type=tp_event&p=6222

Event Description :

NES India, MARAG ,Pastoral women Alliance celebrated Food Festival with around 350 pastorals women from Gujarat, India to observe World Food Day on 22 Oct 2018, the event was in solidarity with Land Rights Now campaign.

Pastorals have a rich cultural heritage with distinctness in their food, language, clothing’s, habitat, etc. Women celebrated their food by bringing traditional seeds from their respective regions, exchanged it, cook together the most famous traditional recipe of their regions. They shared their experiences around traditional food and its relationship with the grazing land, its nutritional value, how their food is under threat, how are they preserving it, the recipes and how are they transferring it to the future generations.

They sung songs of their foods and way of life. Pastoralist women alliance felicitated the pastoral women who migrates for the longest distance, who rears livestock efficiently that boosts milk production, preserving the traditional knowledge of treating and care livestock, who have a rich collection of traditional pastoral songs.

The event ended with traditional dance form Garaba where all women participated followed by lunch where the food from five regional kitchens was served.

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Event Description :

From November 21-26, 2010, more than 100 people from 31 countries gathered in Mera, a rural area of India in the province of Gujarat, for the first Global Gathering of Women Pastoralists. The goal of the Gathering was to contribute to the empowerment of women pastoralists in order for them to participate equitably in decision-making within their communities, governments and other local, national, regional and international forums, whilst also raising awareness of the specific challenges faced by women pastoralists in shifting social, economic and ecological environments.

 

The Gathering was structured around a flexible programme that was designed to provide time for

  • Cultural Events
  • Skills Sharing
  • Regional Discussions
  • Discussions Around Themes of Interest

Every effort was made to ensure that women’s voices were heard and towards this end, interpreters and interpreting equipment was made available for participants and facilitators gave priority to women participants. Only pastoralist women had delegate status. However, men and other women were able to attend as observers. Observers were able to fully participate in the Gathering but did not have the right to vote.

 

 

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