Women as Food Sovereignty Agencies in Ecological Boarding School Ath-Thariq Garut

Abstract

Food is a primary human need. The state has an obligation to meet the food needs of its citizens. However, many state policies have contributed to the food disobedience of their citizens. That is through the green revolution policy. In the view of ecofeminism, green revolution is a manifestation of patriarchal principles. Where the state has the legitimacy to control what food must be consumed by its citizens. In fact, every citizen has the right to sovereignty over food, has the right to consume food according to his body's needs. The right to food must be free from gender discrimination. Even so with women. Women have the power to realize food sovereignty from the smallest scale, namely the household scale. Thus, the struggle of ecofeminists is to realize women's food sovereignty. This article wants to offer an idea related to women's lives as an agent of food sovereignty. Women are one of the most vulnerable if the need for food is not met, both the nutritional and nutritional content. For example, a woman who is pregnant must meet the food needs for herself and her baby. This study uses the Social Relations Approach as a tool for analyzing gender inequality in the distribution of resources, designing programs and policies that enable women to become agents of their own development. The approach to social relations based on the objectives of development is human well-being and how it relates to other institutions that intersect these inequalities. Thus, it results in a situation where one individual is harmed. So, in this paper we will describe how efforts to realize women's food sovereignty. One of them is by implementing garden gardening and ecology-based dining table agriculture. How women can actually become food sovereignty agencies from a small scale to a larger scale. Women's food sovereignty was actually carried out by a woman who was also a founder of an Islamic boarding school, the Ecology Boarding School, Ath-Thariq.