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We, peasant women from different European countries, gathered in Cáceres for the European Seminar "Peasant Women for Our Rights" on April 27^th, 28^th and 29^th, tired of the invisibility that we are often subjected to by the institutions through agricultural, rural development and other policies, and having realized that in the official forum organized by the Spanish Presidency of the European Union that took place on these same dates in Cáceres everybody has spoken on our behalf without giving us a voice, we want to remind the public institutions that WE PEASANT WOMEN ARE HERE, and that as peasant women we play a key role in the production of food in Europe, as well as in the development of life in our villages.  

We are tired of the invisibility that we are subjected to by the current agricultural policies, that consider us women who develop our activity in family farms as another "property" of the farm owner, denying us the right to our own income and to the ownership of the farm, although we contribute with our work to generate and maintain that income as much as our partners.

We will not continue to endure the exclusion of thousands of peasant women from Social Security, neither for economic reasons -size of the farm- nor for cultural or bureaucratic reasons.

In face of this situation and of the debate that is starting now on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP 2013), we demand from the European Union and the European  institutions:

1. The acknowledgment of shared ownership on a 50% basis in the CAP, with the development of a legal statute guaranteeing us peasant women the economic income as well as all the other rights derived from ownership of the farm.

2. The suppression of a minimum requirement of production surface as well as of income in order to access agricultural activities, as this factor discriminates small farms, which are basically the ones in the hands of women. 

3. The inclusion of gender equality as a subject in agricultural education both in agricultural schools and in other settings, it being taught by persons trained for this teaching work.

4. The implementation of positive action measures until full gender equality has been achieved.

5. A legal guarantee of the participation of peasant women in the decision-making processes, through the obligatory fulfillment of the gender equality legislation by agricultural organizations.

6. The explicit commitment of European institutions that there will not be any negative impacts for peasant women in the creation of the budget for the CAP.

7. The mainstreaming of gender equality policies so that equality becomes a key aspect in the definition of the CAP and rural development.

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