| Title: |
Argentina’s Movement of Agricultural Women in Struggle - A story from Latin America |
| Author: |
Edited by Norma Sanchís and Agustina Pérez Rial from IGTN Latin America - LAGTN.
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| Date Published: |
January 1, 2008 |
| Source: |
research |
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Argentina’s Movement of Agricultural Women in Struggle - MMAL  |
| Abstract: |
Lucy’s story is the story of debts incurred by small- and medium-scale farmers in the
1990s in Argentina. During this decade, small- and medium-scale rural producers
were affected by the process of ‘modernisation’ implanted by the neoliberal model. |
This was the central issue around which the Movement of Agricultural Women in
Struggle (MMAL) was initially organised. In addition to tackling the issue of farmers’
debt, the MMAL was also critical of the political system and the banking sector. Its
first collective action began spontaneously in a rural town in Argentina in May 1995,
after Lucy de Cornelis received an announcement that her family farm was about to
be auctioned off and started an individual action. Lucy was convinced that her
family’s debt was unjust. |
