An introduction to resources, key leaders and why food sovereignty is a global issue
What is Food Sovereignty?
Our food has come to be treated first and foremost as a commodity, with a total neglect of the cultural, ecological and genetic heritage of our food, seeds, and traditional farming practises.
All while the livelihoods of the farm labourer, butcher and vegetable picker have been trampled into degradation, exploitation and precarity.
The food sovereignty movement seeks to put an end to these injustices, and does so by disrupting unequal power dynamics and by building resilient, just and ecological food systems from the grassroots.
An introduction to resources, key leaders and why food sovereignty is a global issue