These Extraordinary Times: Indigenous Peoples and Coalition Building for Agroecology and Food Sovereignty

By Carol Kalafatic, Agroecology Now!

In this post I aim to elaborate my belief that, to build or spread food sovereignty, there is an increased need for diverse Peoples, communities and social movements to strengthen relationships and coalitions with one another. Our exchange of knowledges, strategies and practices will keep producing tangible results, and on the less tangible but equally important side, our solidarity will reinforce our resilience in the face of increasing unpredictability.

How the Women of Standing Rock Are Building Sovereign Economies

By Tracy L. Barnett, YES! magazine

Food security, traditional agriculture, and local self-reliance are key to regenerative societies of the future, say water protectors taking the movement’s lessons forward.

Democratising Agricultural Research for Food Sovereignty in West Africa

By Staff, Excluded Voices, Excluded Voices

The West African part of the action-research programme - Democratising Agricultural Research for Food Sovereignty - has made a conscious effort to include members of both advocacy and practitioner movements.

Four Food Advocates are Speaking Up Against an Unfair System that is Causing Hunger to Persist

By Teresa O'Connor, Food Tank

Four food advocates from across the United States may challenge your preconceptions of today’s farmers. They shared their views recently on the challenges of providing healthy, sustainable food and ending hunger.

Saving Japan’s Seed Heritage from “Free Trade”

By Anja Lyngbaek, Local Futures

It’s time for us to wake up and practice direct democracy – to join with others to stop further corporatization and regain control over our commons, our communities, our cultures and our economies. Because if we don't, who will? Masahiko Yamada and the new citizens’ movement in Japan have come up with a few tricks we can learn from.

UN Backs Seed Sovereignty in Landmark Peasants’ Rights Declaration

By Timothy A. Wise, Food Tank

On December 17, the United Nations General Assembly took a quiet but historic vote, approving the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and other People Working in Rural Areas, by a vote of 121-8 with 52 abstentions.

Indigenous Gardens Boost Food Sovereignty in Canada

By Julie Mollins, Food Tank

Indigenous communities in the remote northern portion of Canada’s province of Ontario are expanding efforts to mitigate the impact of high food costs and a general lack of available nutritious fruit and vegetables in supermarkets by increasing crop production.

Magic in a Movement: The Fight for a Just Food System in the USA

By Colin Anderson, Agroecology Now!

What was amazing to see in the US context is the critical attention to these contradictions, a recognition of the politics of difference, a cutting analysis put forward by activists that call these systems of oppression out and a move to work from the margins through processes of mutual empowerment for social justice and a better world.

Reconnecting Agriculture to our Cultural Base

By Ana Felicien, Cira Pascual Marquina, P2P Foundation

To progress in transforming our consumption habits, it’s necessary to understand these colonization processes and develop responses that, beyond being merely immediate or local efforts, could allow us to consolidate a more sustainable food model.

The Road to Food Sovereignty

By Pat Mooney, Nnimmo Bassey, New Internationalist

The solution for both climate and food sovereignty is to dismantle the global industrial agri-food system (which we call the ‘industrial food chain’) and for governments to give more space to the already growing and resilient ‘peasant food web’ – the interlinked network of small-scale farmers, livestock-keepers, pastoralists, hunters and gatherers, fishers and urban producers who, our research shows, already feed most of the world.