Community gardening, urban and rural small scale agriculture in Ethiopia, Bangladesh and Cuba.

Small-holding farming and gardens have something in common: they feed their people. They are a self-providing or subsistance economy, but the surplus will be sold on the market to earn money. School gardens offer the children the possibility to learn in the nature, in the fresh air and working with their own hands, feeling the soil, smelling the plants. They learn how to collect water, care for the seed and the compost, in order to farm ecologically. Urban agriculture, community gardens are mostly run by groups or cooperations. That makes it easier to defend the land against the greed of the “developers”. ​In the South the aggression of multinational companies to promote chemical dependent hybrid and GMO seeds pose a threat to women's sovereign economy. Women's actions through preserving seeds, exchange and links at global level can challenge the aggression.