Food sovereignty Concepts

Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution

by Wendy Brown · 6 Feb 2015

university; or those of vitalizing democracy or securing the health of the indigent with those of compressing costs in municipal agencies; or those of producing food sovereignty, war recovery, sustainable resource use or access to the arts with those of branding and competitive positioning for nonprofits and NGOs. Of course best practices

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own soil. There is more to this heartbreaking story of the destruction of thousands of years of sustainable agriculture and of what some activists call “food sovereignty,” but let us fast-forward to one possible future. A similar experiment took place in India in the 1990s.71 Tens of thousands of farmers

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financing conventions, not to mention modernized agricultural techniques. Farming practices that are organic, biodiverse, small scale, cooperative, free of debt financing, and aimed at generating “food sovereignty” for the nation might be sensible from the perspective of how Iraqi wheat production could draw on past knowledge, materials, and techniques for a sustainable

Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis

by Tao Leigh. Goffe · 14 Mar 2025 · 441pp · 122,013 words

the same township, Ringwood. On their unceded territories, the Ramapough Lunaape Turtle Clan established the Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal Farms for botanical healing, CBD, and food sovereignty in 2019, which we will explore in further detail in chapter 8. * * * Shifting from New Jersey’s mountains to the Caribbean and my ancestral mountain

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of the islands. Is there a way for Tahitians and Jamaicans to commune on this colonial history? Together, could we build a plan for future food sovereignty and nourishment for islands that would enrich the diets and livelihood of Black and Indigenous peoples? Commerce, Criminalization, Climate, and Legalization The gradual strides in

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Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal Farm is one example of a federally recognized Native tribe going into business for themselves as part of their mission of food sovereignty. Their lands are not far from the pristine and protected New Jersey Botanical Garden, with their manicured lawns, in nearby Ringwood. The Munsee Three Sisters

Beautiful Solutions: A Toolbox for Liberation

by Elandria Williams, Eli Feghali, Rachel Plattus and Nathan Schneider · 15 Dec 2024 · 346pp · 84,111 words

that reminds us that another world is not only possible, it’s already under construction. Everything we need to transform our communities already exists. From food sovereignty to debt abolition, from folk schools to energy democracy—and from Argentina to Zimbabwe. If you long for a more beautiful, more just, and more

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and What We Want Values 1: FOOD & AGRICULTURE STORY Chitsvachirimurutsoka Cooperative Society STORY Seikatsu Club Consumers’ Co-operative Union STORY GreenWave Regenerative Ocean Farming SOLUTION Food Sovereignty SOLUTION Participatory Guarantee Systems SOLUTION Land Justice PRINCIPLE Lead from Our Roots QUESTION How do we care for our people as we take action on

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our ecosystems, like clearcutting forests. WHAT ARE SOME OF THE MOST PROMISING STRATEGIES? Seed sharing and seed libraries. Permaculture. Agroecology. Regenerative ocean and land farming. Food sovereignty. Regional food system planning. Small farmer cooperatives. Consumer cooperatives and buying clubs. Community-supported agriculture. HOW ARE WE MAKING BEAUTIFUL TROUBLE? Reappropriation of underutilized land

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Restore Our Seas Through Ocean Farming” by World Wildlife Foundation. (2019) youtu.be/0eTvs5182Zo SOLUTION FOOD SOVEREIGNTY Photo of the author, Emi Do, holding cranberry and orca beans. Image provided by Do, used with permission. OVERVIEW Food sovereignty is the right of communities to access healthy and culturally appropriate food and to have control

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people. Many people around the world depend on aid for their food, which is often of poor nutritional quality and culturally inappropriate. The concept of food sovereignty concerns communities’ rights to have autonomy and control over their food consumption, production, and distribution. But there are barriers to accessing food, like cost and

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availability, and the ability of people to produce food, which relies on having land and knowledge. The food sovereignty movement first gained popular attention in the mid-1990s through the efforts of La Via Campesina, an international network of farmers formed to defend peasant

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address the insecurity that farmers experience globally. The movement gained greater momentum in 2007, when the International Forum for Food Sovereignty was held in Mali. There, the Declaration of Nyéléni establishing a definition of food sovereignty was written and signed by representatives from over 80 countries. From the beginning, the concept was political. Then

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agricultural economics from Tokyo University of Agriculture, where she studied large-scale cooperatives in Japan. There are many examples of initiatives that show us what food sovereignty looks like. Community-supported agriculture (CSA) programs, for instance, are based on a mutual commitment between producers and consumers to share the risks and rewards

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delivering produce to members’ homes. As the concept has grown and spread around the world, CSA programs have drifted away from their original ideal of food sovereignty and toward consumer demands, with farmers often offering customized share sizes and making consumer participation in growing, harvesting, and distribution optional. Another powerful initiative that

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supports food sovereignty are the cooperatives of small-scale farmers who band together to pool marketing, administration, and logistical labor and costs. At their best, these cooperatives enable

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the risk of compromising with the market and losing their community focus in pursuit of large-scale production. At the national level, the battle for food sovereignty has brought together organizations and individuals to lobby governments to adopt holistic food policies. Food Secure Canada was formed as a coalition of local initiatives

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in 2001 under the banner of food security. In 2009, the coalition’s framework shifted to food sovereignty, which led to a national campaign to lobby the government for more inclusive food policies. Food sovereignty must be grounded in local practice, but effective organizing and collaboration between grassroots organizations has led to the

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formation of international organizations such as the International Planning Committee on Food Sovereignty (IPC). The IPC has successfully introduced reforms and brought food sovereignty principles to the table of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The IPC has changed how food

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security is discussed at the international level, bringing stakeholders to the table, such as peasant farmers, who were previously excluded in these policy meetings. “FOOD SOVEREIGNTY PUTS THOSE WHO PRODUCE, DISTRIBUTE AND CONSUME FOOD AT THE HEART OF FOOD SYSTEMS AND POLICIES, RATHER THAN THE DEMANDS OF MARKETS AND CORPORATIONS.” — FROM

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THE DECLARATION OF NYÉLÉNI In the face of frequent temptations to compromise with the status quo, the principles of food sovereignty provide an essential North Star for the farmers producing our food, the communities striving to nourish their families, and everyone in between. LEARN MORE REPORT

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“Nyéléni 2007: Forum for Food Sovereignty” by the Nyéléni 2007 International Steering Committee. (2007) nyeleni.org/DOWNLOADS/Nyelni_EN.pdf GUIDE “Sharing the Harvest: A Citizen’s Guide to Community Supported

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power with the rallying cry: “Defend, Develop, and Decolonize.” Starting in 2017, NDN Fund began with a vision to indigenize large-scale development, regenerative agriculture, food sovereignty, and equitable economic growth. Its parent organization, NDN Collective, is an advocacy organization for building Indigenous power. Creating the fund was a fundamental part of

Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

by Harsha Walia · 9 Feb 2021

tariffs on subsidized US meat and agricultural exports, flooding the market with genetically modified cash crops like corn, which impoverished local farmers and threatened Indigenous food sovereignty. Maize is sacred in Indigenous communities; as Aldo Gonzalez describes, “Native seeds are a very important part of our culture. The pyramids may have been

What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures

by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson · 17 Sep 2024 · 588pp · 160,825 words

Soul Fire Farm in 2006, and they have been manifesting such a vision, growing food in a way that is grounded in community, justice, and food sovereignty. I first learned of Leah in December of 2016, when I got this email from my mother: The hour-long video, which I ended up

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that jazzes me up. That self-sufficiency tip is really exciting. Ayana: That is exciting. And it’s from you that I learned this term, “food sovereignty.” Leah: La Via Campesina, which is a peasant movement, the largest in the world made up of people who are closest to the Earth, came

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up with this concept of food sovereignty. It’s the idea that every person has the right to democratic participation in the food system at all levels. It’s a vision for

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activist who founded Soul Fire Farm with the mission to end racism in the food system and reclaim our ancestral connection to land. She facilitates food sovereignty programs including farmer trainings, food distribution, and organizing toward equity in the food system. • soulfirefarm.org Marge Piercy is the author of nineteen volumes of

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Bones, 64, 65 drowning risks for Black children, xvii inequities faced by Black farmers, 77–79 the New Orleans second line, 102, 372 Penniman on food sovereignty, food justice, and regenerative agriculture, 68–85 Pichon Battle on organizing and climate justice in, 364–79 redlining in, 287 reparations and other legislation to

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power, 382–92 Donahue on revitalizing rural communities through agriculture, 54–56, 58–63 Montano on disasters and disaster recovery, 347–62 Penniman on community food sovereignty, 73–74 Pichon Battle on organizing and climate justice in South Louisiana and beyond, 364–79 problems and possibilities, 344–45 revitalizing coastal communities through

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rise flood insurance, 359, 360 flood risk mapping, 359–60 food justice certification, 82 Food Solutions New England, 52 food sovereignty, 74 food systems: Donahue on reviving regional agriculture, 50–63 Penniman on food sovereignty, food justice, and regenerative agriculture, 68–85 problems and possibilities, 34, 67–68, 70–71 what transformation looks like

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on, 95, 97–98 as obstacle to action, 195, 293 ocean farming development and, 415 ocean justice advocacy, 318–19, 320 Penniman on food justice, food sovereignty, and regenerative agriculture, 68–85 Pichon Battle on organizing and climate justice in South Louisiana, 364–79 rights of nature protections, 261, 326–27, 376

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benefits and potential of, 79–81 climate-friendly farming methods, 43–44, 56–57, 67–68 ocean farming, 304, 307, 316, 400–419 Penniman on food sovereignty, food justice, and, 68–85 regional, Donahue on reviving, 50–63 what transformation looks like, 63, 429 See also agriculture; food systems regenerative ocean farm

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trust • rural repopulation • generational project • climate victory garden • regenerative agriculture • compost • polycultures • cover crops • mulching • no-till farming • collective bargaining • microbiome • farmers markets • community garden • food sovereignty • strikes • boycotts • ritual • food justice certification adaptation • green infrastructure • living breakwaters • oyster reefs • climate-driven relocation • design justice • mending • repairing • recycling • upcycling • rewilding • restorative design

Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

by Grace Blakeley · 11 Mar 2024 · 371pp · 137,268 words

organization occupied unused land to start a network of urban farms and farmers’ markets, which worked together to “promote a healthy diet, affordable produce, and food sovereignty in the city.” It also developed a campaign to expand worker organizing in the city with the aim of overturning anti-union legislation. Since then

The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy

by Stephanie Kelton · 8 Jun 2020 · 338pp · 104,684 words

the developing one.39 That would deliver poorer parts of the world the industrial capacity they need to build up their (renewable) energy and (sustainable) food sovereignty—and thus escape the trap we discussed earlier of being dependent on imports to access critical resources. In theory and practice, lack of food and

Let them eat junk: how capitalism creates hunger and obesity

by Robert Albritton · 31 Mar 2009 · 273pp · 93,419 words

K prices rise globally, and this is why Via Campesina and the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement have been so successful. Via Campesina’s call for “food sovereignty” is essentially an effort to find ways of insulating the rural poor from the rapaciousness of global capitalism by rebuilding healthy rural communities that are

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provisioning 164 food pyramid 188 food regime/system 6 food safety 189 food security 153 see also food prices, hunger, starvation, structural adjustment policies, subsidies food sovereignty 204 Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) ix, 89, 97, 153, 188 forced labour 124, 127 see also slavery fossil fuel 148, 151, 155 see also

The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire

by Wikileaks · 24 Aug 2015 · 708pp · 176,708 words

the assembly. The new constitution—which contained numerous progressive initiatives, such as enshrining the rights of nature, treating drug abuse as a health issue, and food sovereignty—was approved with 64 percent of the vote.19 While the US ultimately proved unsuccessful in preventing Correa’s rise, the cables reveal the embassy

A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity and a Shared Earth

by Chris Smaje · 14 Aug 2020 · 375pp · 105,586 words

into that future was produced in the Malian village of Nyéléni in 2007, when the Forum for Food Sovereignty convened by the international peasant organisation La Vía Campesina produced its eponymous declaration, including this passage: ‘Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable

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of those who produce, distribute and consume food at the heart of food systems and policies rather than the demands of markets and corporations.’31 Food sovereignty emphasises ‘growers and eaters’ allying politically at the local level rather than ‘producers and consumers’ relating to each other only by seeking the best price

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how people define the affordability of food in view of other things they spend their money on. I’m less sympathetic to the notion that food sovereignty is therefore a boutique movement catering only for the middle class, especially since the cheapness of world-market food arises in considerable measure through the

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more potentially egalitarian than the drive to build a global capitalist political economy. In that respect, this book is intended essentially as a defence of food sovereignty principles and a working through of some of their difficulties. The difficulties, I’d argue, are less severe than those bedevilling other kinds of political

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: Stanford University Press. Agarwal, Bina. 1996. A Field of One’s Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press. _______. 2014. ‘Food Sovereignty, Food Security and Democratic Choice: Critical Contradictions, Difficult Conciliations,’ Journal of Peasant Studies 41(6): 1247–68. Allen, Robert. 1992. Enclosure and the Yeoman: The

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: Penguin. Mazoyer, Marcel, and Laurence Roudart. 2006. A History of World Agriculture: From the Neolithic Age to the Current Crisis. London: Earthscan. McMichael, Philip. 2009. ‘Food Sovereignty, Social Reproduction and the Agrarian Question,’ in Peasants and Globalization, edited by A. Haroon Akram-Lodi and Cristóbal Kay. London: Routledge, 288–312. Meadows, Donella

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of Agriculture and Food Systems,’ Annual Review of Environmental Resources 36:223–46. Perfecto, Ivette, et al. 2009. Nature’s Matrix: Linking Agriculture, Conservation and Food Sovereignty. London: Routledge. Perkins, John. 1997. Geopolitics and the Green Revolution: Wheat, Genes and the Cold War. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Phelps, Jacob, et al. 2013

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in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster. London: Penguin. Soper, Rachel. 2020. ‘From Protecting Peasant Livelihoods to Essentializing Peasant Agriculture: Problematic Trends in Food Sovereignty Discourse,’ Journal of Peasant Studies 47(2): 265–85. Sowell, Thomas. 2006. A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles. New York: Basic Books