Peasant Woman Who Feeds the World: Poem

La mujer sin rostro
(The faceless woman)

There is a peasant woman
faceless, nameless
who feeds the world.
Who is reborn every dawn
in Uganda, Myanmar
Colombia or Palestine.
Her name tattooed
on the callouses of her hands,
she is nude
veiled in seeds of red
black, yellow and white.
She does not care about SDGs, the CFS
or hundreds of acronyms.
Landless woman
painted with color,
she is bamboo,
the smoke of fire-fallow,
she is a cloud, water,
tree woman,
plant woman,
fire woman.
The faceless woman
is assassinated a thousand times
in Mexico, Argentina
Nigeria and all of Europe,
but she is reborn in Brazil, in Honduras
or in Sierra Leone.
Having a thousand spirits
she is a peasant, fisherwoman,
urbanite, a rainbow,
she feeds the world with beans,
corn, rice, yucca.
She fights for the land,
the water, for life and
sovereignty.
The faceless woman
has a face and has a name.
Manigueuigdinapi Jorge Stanley Icaza
Pueblo Kuna
República de Panamá
23/03/2018

WUNRN

Link to Full 64-Page 2018 Civil Society Report on the Right to Food Guidelines, INCLUDING POEM (below):

http://www.csm4cfs.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/EN-CSM-LR-2018-compressed.pdf