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Food sovereignty is a food system in which the people who produce, distribute, and consume food also control the mechanisms and policies of food production and distribution. This stands in contrast to the present corporate food regime , in which corporations and market institutions control the global food system .
Food sovereignty often places emphasis on property rights of indigenous communities and small-scale farmers. [21] The food sovereignty movement in the United States was inspired by the Belgium-based international La Via Campesina movement, and focuses on the right to produce food. This movement challenges current neoliberal approaches to ...
Food sovereignty differs from food security. Food security was defined as "physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food... at all times to meet [the population's] dietary and food preferences for an active and healthy life" by D. Moyo at the American Society of International Law annual meeting in 2007. [27]
Food sovereignty, first coined by indigenous and peasant advocacy organization Vía Campesina, is the “right to produce, distribute, and consume nutritious, culturally appropriate food in a way that is ecologically sustainable” [1] The goals of food sovereignty are to preserve agrobiodiversity, strengthen Bolivia's internal markets, renew ...
The following nine countries recognise the right to food as a separate and stand-alone right: Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Guyana, Haiti, Kenya, South Africa, in the Interim Constitution of Nepal (as food sovereignty) and Nicaragua (as freedom from hunger).
The USFSA supports local farming and access to healthy, sufficient food. The United States Food Sovereignty Alliance is a group of food producers and labor, environmental, faith-based, social justice and anti-hunger advocacy organizations, [1] including the Applied Research Center, Family Farm Defenders, the Indigenous Environmental Network, and the National Family Farm Coalition.
Leadership outside the NFU. One of the reasons for a divided approach is a feeling among some that the National Farmers’ Union was “blindsided” by Ms Reeves announcement in the Budget and ...
Pages in category "Food sovereignty" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...