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A group of cooks, chefs, seed keepers, educators, activists and advocates are making it their mission to empower Indigenous communities through food. 'We're family': How the I-Collective is ...
At the 2007 Forum for Food Sovereignty in Sélingué, Mali, 500 delegates from more than 80 countries adopted the "Declaration of Nyéléni", [9] which says in part: . Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems.
La Vía Campesina (from Spanish: la vía campesina, meaning the peasant way) is an international farmers organization founded in 1993 in Mons, Belgium, formed by 182 organisations in 81 countries, [1] and describing itself as "an international movement which coordinates peasant organizations of small and middle-scale producers, agricultural workers, rural women, and indigenous communities from ...
On 28 September 2018, draft resolution A/HRC/39/L.16 was presented to the United Nations Human Rights Council, supported by Algeria, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Egypt, Haiti, Kenya, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Philippines, South Africa, Togo, Venezuela and the State of Palestine.
Cuba nowadays depends on imports for up to 80% of its food consumption, but is short of money to pay for its imported food items. Oil and food donations from Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia ...
Idle No More is a movement of resistance and resurgence begun by Indigenous Peoples belonging to the lands located in Canada. The movement began in 2012 to oppose Prime Minister Harper's government changes, especially to Bill C-45 which contained changes to the Indian Act and to environmental protection. There were several successful acts of ...
It has been discussed and theorized in the indigenous context of the concept that food sovereignty is also an effort of reclaiming culture and former relationship to land; [13] [15] [14] it has also been noted that, as a situational concept, food sovereignty in the traditional sense may have underlying traces of capitalist or colonialist ...
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 ...