Seville has been this Thursday the setting for a working session of the Table of Rural Women and of the Andalusian Sea, a collegiate body created to reinforce the active involvement of this group in the agricultural, fishing, agri-food and rural development fields.
As the Junta de Andalucía has reported in a note, representatives from six women’s associations from the community and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fishing, Water and Rural Development attended the meeting, under the chairmanship of the deputy minister of this department, Consolación Vera.
During the meeting, the degree of compliance with the Statute of Rural Women and the Andalusian Sea was reviewed, which includes among its measures the implementation of this table. Likewise, various actions in the area of equality were discussed, such as the event scheduled for next week under the title "Women who transform, women who inspire".
In this context, the deputy minister of Agriculture thanked the associations "for the important work they carry out to advance toward equity between women and men in the agricultural, fishing and agri-food sector, thereby also greatly highlighting their situation in the field of rural development".
At the same time, Vera regretted that "women have always been an essential link in these economic areas but often have gone unnoticed because these are activities traditionally associated with men," and she expressed confidence that "the future will be very different thanks to the joint work of the private sector and the public administration".
Along these lines, the deputy minister defended "direct dialogue between the Andalusian Government and those who represent women in this region in order to keep working toward the common goal of real equality that we are all pursuing".
Among the organizations present at the meeting were the Association of Families and Women of the Rural Environment (Affammer), the Andalusian Association of Women from the Fishing Sector (AndMuPes) and the Association of Rural Entrepreneurs of Andalusia (Aeran). Representatives from the Association of Women of Agro-food Cooperatives (Amcae), the Andalusian Coordinator of Women’s Organizations (Coamur) and the Federation of Rural Women’s Associations (Fademur) also attended.