Food Sovereignty
Topic category
A fundamentally contested concept, food sovereignty has — as a political project and campaign, an alternative, a social movement, and an analytical framework — barged into global agrarian discourse over the last two decades. Since then, it has inspired and mobilized diverse publics: workers, scholars and public intellectuals, farmers and peasant movements, NGOs and human rights activists in the North and global South. The term has become a challenging subject for social science research, and has been interpreted and reinterpreted in a variety of ways by various groups and individuals. Indeed, it is a concept that is broadly defined as the right of peoples to democratically control or determine the shape of their food system, and to produce sufficient and healthy food in culturally appropriate and ecologically sustainable ways in and near their territory. As such it spans issues such as food politics, agroecology, land reform, bio-fuels, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), urban gardening, the patenting of life forms, labor migration, the feeding of volatile cities, ecological sustainability, and subsistence rights.
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Guardians of seed, land and life : The Southern Africa Rural Women’s Assembly Seed Guardians exhibition
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Lessons from the Indian Farmers’ Movement Emerging solidarities in the Kisan Andolan
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Towards a Just Recovery from the Covid-19 Crisis The urgent struggle for food sovereignty in North Africa
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Growing back stronger Choosing resilient food systems in the wake of Covid-19
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Key documents
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Public policies for food sovereignty Think piece series Food for Thought No.1
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Building social muscle to transform food systems Think piece series Food for Thought No.2
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Leveraging urban policy for food sovereignty and human rights Think piece series Food for Thought No.3
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Democracy Not for Sale The struggle for food sovereignty in the age of austerity in Greece
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Defending the Right to Food Sovereignty
Paula Gioia explains what kind of 'food regime' or 'food system' is needed today, right now, and how we can bring it about. What are the main obstacles today to making fully real and accessible for everyone a genuine and meaningful 'human right to food'?
