20 Jun 2016

1. NO WATER! NO FOOD!
WOMEN DEFENDING PACHAMAMA
Graciela Romero
Doctorate Researcher
Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience
Coventry University

2. YANACOCHA LAKE IN THE MOUNTAINS OF
CAJAMARCA –PERU
1992

3. • POVERTY
• FOOD INSECURITY
• SOCIAL CONFLICTS
• CRIMINALISATION OF
PROTEST
DEVELOPMENT AND EXTRACTIVISM

4. THE YANACOCHA LAKE AFTER TWO DECADES OF GOLD
EXTRACTION

5. • CONSTANT SHORTAGES OF
WATER
• CONTAMINATION OF RIVERS
AND SOIL
• LIVELIHOODS DESTROYED
THERE IS NO FOOD SOVEREIGNTY
WITHOUT WATER AND LAND

6. THE STATE DEFENDING EXTRACTIVISM
• PEASANTS ASSASINATED
• PHYSICAL ATTACKS AGAINST
PEASANTS
• PEASANTS AND
ENVIRONMENTALISTS
ACCUSED OF LEGAL
OFFENCES

7. • RELATEDNESS
• COMPLEMENTARITY
• CORRESPONDENCE
• RECIPROCITY
• CYCLICALITY
WE BELONG TO PACHAMAMA
BUEN VIVIR – WELL LIVING

8. CELENDINAS LUCHADORAS EN DEFENSA DE LA
PACHAMAMA

10. WITH GOLD WE LIVE! WITHOUT WATER WE DIE!

11. WE DECIDE WHAT TO DO WE OUR WATER AND OUR
LAND: FOOD SOVEREINGTY WITH BUEN VIVIR

12. REFERENCES
• Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic (2015) Conga no Va: An
Assessment of the Conga Mining Project in Light of World Bank
Standards.
http://static1.squarespace.com/static/560b18b0e4b067a54c32c7
6a/t/560d9754e4b059118c4843c6/1443731284871/CongaNoVa_
Assessment.pdf
• Estermann, J. (2016) Notes for the Debate: Vivir Bien/ Buen Vivir
[online] available from
<http://systemicalternatives.org/2014/07/30/1099/>
• Soto, G. and Helfrich, S. (2012) 'El Buen Vivir and the Commons: A
Conversation between Gustavo Soto Santiesteban and Silke
Helfrich'. in The Wealth of the Commons: A World Beyond Market
& State. ed. by Helfrich, S. and Bollier, D. : The Commons Strategy
Group [July 31 2014]
• Food Sovereignty: reclaiming our food system, War on Want.

13. THANK YOU!
romerovg@uni.coventry.ac.uk
@grarome