Items tagged:
Food sovereignty
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African social movements call on UN food summit to give people back control
In the second blog in our ‘food year’ series, guest blogger Million Belay explains why now is the time to demand a better food system that works for small-scale food producers in Africa – who account for most of the world’s food insecure
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UN Food Systems Summit: it’s time to listen to civil society’s concerns
Guest blogger Molly Anderson kicks off a new blog series leading up to the UN’s first ever Food Systems Summit. Here, Anderson sets out practical ways for the summit’s convenors to regroup after getting off to a rocky start
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Building resilient food systems
IIED strengthens the capacity of local organisations and institutions by designing resilient food systems and sustaining local food systems.
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Voices and flavours of the earth: Food sovereignty in the Andes
Voices and flavours of the earth: Visualising food sovereignty in the Andes is a multimedia publication that uses video, audio, images and text to describe how indigenous communities are drawing on their knowledge and cosmovisions to rethink the priorities and governance of food and agricultural research in the Andean Altiplano of Bolivia and Peru.
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Learning to value Mother Earth
Making informed choices about eating foods that have less of an environmental impact is increasingly important. We can all learn lessons from local communities living in the Andes
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Agricultural development: business as usual is not an option
Following the 2008 global food price hikes and riots, national governments and transnational corporations are increasingly interested in investing in large-scale African agricultural projects. While these land acquisitions gather pace, 925 million people remain undernourished worldwide, with 239 million living in sub-Saharan Africa. In this new context, the question is not only how sustainable large-scale industrial agriculture is, but also what model of food production and farming is most effective in addressing the question of hunger – and for whom.
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Supporting small-scale farmers: rights or markets?
Development support for small-scale farmers must be based on both the enforcement of basic human rights and a pro-poor development of markets.
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Supporting smallholders: markets, rights, or sovereignty?
But, according to one speaker at the event, smallholders aren’t helped by either.
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Towards food sovereignty: reclaiming autonomous food systems
Towards Food Sovereignty describes the ecological basis of food and agriculture, the social and environmental costs of modern food systems, and the policy reversals needed to democratise food systems
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Food and farming futures for small producers and indigenous peoples
The food sovereignty paradigm affirms the fundamental right of peoples to define their food and agricultural policies.
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Peasant Seeds: the foundation of food sovereignty in Africa
A multimedia publication released in Bamako today, 11th December 2008, captures the deep concern among West African farmers about the privatisation of seeds and knowledge
