We Are the Land is a political awareness project examining the roots and consequences of gender imbalance in land ownership in the Global North and South.

The project was created and directed by Josephine Lau Jessen, who holds a Master in Human Ecology, Power, Culture & Sustainability from Lund University. She works in the interdisciplinary field of art and academia, focussing on how to communicate the crisis we are all facing, in new creative ways through teaching, film and photography. The film is produced and filmed by Emil Hougaard Bertelsen, a Danish photojournalist who has been living in Kenya.

This event will be a two hour workshop, with an introduction, screening of film (35 min.) and Q&A.

Coffee and tea will be provided and attendance is free with no prior registration needed. Welcome!

Abstract

Focusing on Denmark and Kenya, the film adopts an intersectional feminist and decolonial perspective. The Earth, the climate and the food system are out of balance. People are living further and further away from the basis of their existence – the land – than ever before. The land is the very foundation of our lives. We grow our food there, build our homes there, and it is home to more than half of the planet's biodiversity. Yet, the right to use and own land is far from equally distributed. This is true neither between countries and continents, nor between ethnicities and genders. In this short documentary film, we meet five women who practice small-scale agriculture in Kenya and Denmark. They share their experiences and perspectives on cultivation, gender, land rights and solutions for the future of the food system.

From November 23rd there will be more information online at wearetheland.inf

The project is supported by OpEn, an information and communication fund from CISU, Danida.