INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION TO CREATE A FEMININE ECONOMY
Building a Universal Female Citizenship thorough the MMC (Movement of Peasant Women)
Engaging International Feminist Organizations, such as the Scandinavian Feminist Movement we will seek support for projects like the Brazilian Pilot Reforestation project, that focuses on biodiversity restoration by planting endemic trees to the Brazilian Atlantic coast that have become extinct, reversing the green gas effects and climate change.
Modification according to the needs of each area and it's community can be incorporated as needed.
HOW DOES THE PILOT PROGRAM WORK?
300 women will participate with their rural properties. 99 trees will be planted in each property totaling 29,700 trees.
Phases of the project:
1. Pioneer Phase:
Each of the 300 pioneer women will plant 33 regional trees in their property. Each one will receive a salary of 1/8 of a minimum wage during the 9 years.
2. Engagement Phase:
Every pioneer woman will select another 3 women to participate during the second stage. These new women will do the same as the pioneers, that is, plant 33 trees and will receive 1/8 of a minimum salary during 9 years.
3. Educational Phase:
In between the 33 trees space for cultivating and/or raising animals will be left. A new more ecological way of food production will be learned.
4. Long Term:
Throughout the 9 years of the project, the reforested areas will become a "savings account" for the peasant women. Their properties will have the added value of having 300 areas to do research and university studies about the cooperation North-South, technologies, ecology, sustainability, etc. in the supported properties. Also governments, banks and other financial institutions may be interested in supporting annual growth.
COST ANALYSIS:
Cost per woman: ¼ min wage per month = 3 min wages per year. For 9 years = 27 min wages per woman for the whole project
Cost for the whole project: 27 min wages X 300 properties = 8,100 min wages
Cost per tree/total: 99 x 300 = 29,700 trees. 8,100 divided by 29,700 = 0.27 min wages per tree
Cost per tree/year: .03 min wage per tree per year
Note: Every pioneer woman receives 1/8 minimum wage for herself and 1/8 for the other 3 participants that she will incorporate. This equals 1/4 minimum wages a month. For 12 months equals 3 minimum wages and for 9 years equals 27 minimum wages.
Since there will be 300 properties, 27 X 300 = 8100 minimum wages for the whole project.
Since 29,700 trees will be planted, the cost per tree will be 0.27% of a minimum wage (8,100 divided by 29,700 = 0.27)
REPLICATION:
Through this results and the financial information from this project, it will be possible to replicate it around the world. Soliciting participation of social movements in cooperation with the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, and other world organizations. It will help demand a foreign policy that will include the participation of the peasant movements in the credits foreseen by the Kyoto Accords, other environmental protection agreements, forest restoration, water and biodiversity preservation in areas damaged by industrial agriculture, etc.
This international program will force political and economic mediation with governments and encourage the creation of a different policy for the Kyoto accords, which today is influenced by the banks interests, cellulose industries and other international service providers.
Taking advantage of the social public policy of the Kyoto accords, each one of the 900 participants of the pioneer project would sponsor 9 new participants and will repeat the adopted model with their own logistics as well as their own political strategies.
Cost analysis
Cost per woman
Cost per tree/year
Cost per tree/whole program
We want to create a true Female Economy. Through this proposal we seek the institution of mechanisms of economic, financial and political mediation with the Multilateral organizations and public policies of the World Bank, as well as encouraging a female influence in national, state and regional governments' public policies.
PARALLEL PROJECTS
Based on the success of this work, adaptations for reforestation of damaged areas, as well as other similar projects can be launched. At this time through WPT we are supporting the creation of a project in the Venezuelan Amazon (Pauji) as well as a creative reforestation corridor project in the Mayan Rainforest (Campeche) through the initiative of Friends of Calakmul (www.calakmul.org) our sister organization.
DESCRIPTION OF BRAZIL’S PILOT PROJECT:
300 rural properties are selected by the MMC.
99 trees will be planted in each property throughout 9 years.
33 noble regional trees (Grapia, Guajuvira, Azota Caballo, Canafistula, Ipê Blanco, Ipê Rojo, Ipê Amarillo and others) will be planted initially by a pioneer woman.
Each peasant woman will receive 1/8 of a minimum wage during the 9 years.
In between the 33 trees space for cultivating and/or raising animals will be left. (Educational phase).
Every pioneer woman will select another 3 women to participate during the second stage. These new women will do the same as the pioneers, that is plant 33 trees and will receive 1/8 of a minimum salary during 9 years. The pioneer women will receive and extra 1/8 of a minimum salary during 9 years for enlisting the 3 new participants (pyramid model).
FINAL PHASE:
After the implementation of the "International Cooperation project", a campaign will begin, to reserve 50% of the areas destined for plantation of eucalyptus, should be diversified with the plantation of native trees to each ecosystem.
The theoretical basis for this proposal has been developed by the professors XIMITÃO ET ALLII, with assistance of the NEA and other organizations.
Sebastian Pineiro, NEA – ufrgs (fundacion Candiru)
