Biofuels, or fuels derived from plants, have been making headlines recently for their role in the world food crisis. Touted as a new clean fuel that will help solve the climate crisis, activists have long warned about the poverty and justice implications. Nonetheless, while the conversion of basic food crops into fuel for vehicles in wealthy countries seems a particularly cruel incarnation of the growing divide between the haves and have-nots of the world, it is also only a symptom of a broken economic order that prioritizes profits over human subsistence.

Agriculture is central to women and women are central to agriculture as
producers, processors, retailers in the cash economy and as consumers
in their role of social reproduction in the care economy. This power
point presentation examines the multiple ways women interact with the
food supply chain.