Sentences with phrase «food sovereignty»

It's time to talk about the island's right to food security by way of food sovereignty.

As part of our vision, we play an active role in building a movement for food sovereignty.

The degree to which peoples experience food sovereignty has a direct bearing on their food security.

Participants reflect on, interact, and share with their peers from different organizations and countries aiming to further develop their own respective practices and processes in attaining food sovereignty.

The country has that potential, however, and is making impressive strides toward improving food sovereignty and security through interesting measures restricting food waste and encouraging climate - friendly eating.

But behind the scenes, we also actively support and work with social movements that are fighting for food sovereignty and creating more diverse food and farming systems around the world.

She supports rural development based on food sovereignty, and promotes routes to market for small producers as well as spaces for education, nutrition, enterprise and tourism in ethnic locations.

actively participated in the global food sovereignty movement by attending conferences of La Via Campesina and the International Planning Committee on Food Sovereignty, as well as participated in global food security governance negotiations at the World Committee on Food Security;

AFSA members are also currently writing a book on the emergence of food sovereignty in Australia to be released next year, so stay tuned for that too.

She led the process to gain membership of the leading voice of the global food sovereignty movement La Via Campesina (LVC) in August 2016.

The launch of Fair Food Farmers United, a farmer - to - farmer knowledge - and experience - sharing project to promote understanding of food sovereignty principles and practices amongst Australian producers

Disruption to our weather patterns threaten already diminished food sovereignty in regions all over the world and create further economic destabilization that fosters political strife, war, and terrorism.

Voices from various backgrounds and disciplines feature in this issue, from growth - skeptic film - maker Dave Gardner, to grassroots food sovereignty activists the Open Food Network, to the world's most quoted social critic, Noam Chomsky.

The discussions at the meetings largely centred around the topics of communication, the strengthening of the existing working groups and formulating strong strategies for continued effective engagement with — and influence of — the FAO and other processes where food sovereignty can be promoted.

By switching to brown rice, the Philippines could eliminate rice imports and enhance food sovereignty.

«Pope Francis calls for us to get off the pesticide and techno - fix treadmill that claims to feed the world but in reality is often at the service of finance and consumerism,» said Kirtana Chandrasekaran, food sovereignty coordinator at Friends of the Earth International.

January 22 - February 3rd: Food sovereignty delegates will work to rebuild agroecology youth farm schools and organic family farms in Orocovis, Naranjito, and Vieques.

As a political movement, agroecology is an action agenda to achieve food sovereignty led by small - scale food producers and their allies.

MASIPAG shares how farmer empowerment is crucial not only in achieving food security for the household and community, but also food sovereignty and genuine rural development.

As he opened the 2013 Food Sovereignty Prize ceremony at New York's Cooper Union, master of ceremonies Blain Snipstal — a young farmer from the Baltimore area who organizes with La Via Campesina and the Southeastern African - American Farmers Organic Network — put the concept of food sovereignty into context.

In developing nations, major droughts devastate domestic agriculture and compromise food sovereignty.

Besides being responsible for the culinary celebrations on board, Daniel engages locally with movements of independent food sovereignty and is always supporting sustainable farming.

AFSA, as an alliance promoting food sovereignty in Australia, has I believe shifted the debate on food and food systems in this country.

Now food sovereignty has entered the vernacular and is being used by reporters, politicians, agriculture and food leaders and advocates all over the country.

Incidentally our facebook page reached over 5,000 likes in October, which is impressive for a single - minded food sovereignty page without cute dogs and cats!

Food sovereignty embodies a food and farming system based on connection, rather than one based on separation and alienation.

All great news as Australia is no longer known as «the lost continent» in global food sovereignty circles.

And last but not least, Nick Rose carried the AFSA flag to Canada, the USA and Latin America as part of his Churchill Fellowship studying food sovereignty.

Through AFSA's ongoing engagement with the international organisation, La Via Campesina, we stand in strong solidarity with the global movement for recognition and inclusion of indigenous and First Nation Peoples everywhere, without whom there can be no true food sovereignty.

Food sovereignty stands for:

«This vote is a reflection of years of work from a strong grassroots base of Vermonters who take their food and food sovereignty seriously and do not take kindly to corporate bullies,» Will Allen, manager of Cedar Circle Farm in Thetford, said in a statement Wednesday after the House approved the bill.

- Respect food sovereignty and people's right to define their own food, energy and agricultural systems.

These impacts threaten food security and food sovereignty like never before and in addition to that, they threaten the lives and livelihoods of women who have their hands deep in the land, and their dependents.

There is no mention of effective and fair solutions such as respecting the land rights of forest peoples, promoting clean democratic energy or ensuring food sovereignty for communities and small farmers, all of which would keep carbon safely locked up underground and in trees and soils.

Food sovereignty takes into account more than just access to food.

The Oakland Institute has been talking for years about increasing food security by increasing food sovereignty in poor nations, rather than fighting hunger by dumping cheap, overproduced food from rich countries, driving local farmers in those poor countries out of business.

Land is Life is a global coalition of communities, organizations, and activists working together to protect the rights of indigenous peoples through food sovereignty, women's rights, economic empowerment, land rights and climate action.

Built with sustainability and community in mind, with a mission to encourage food sovereignty and allow city dwellers to explore their connection with nature, Sill - to - Sill is a wonderful example of how all these things can be synthesized into something present and tangible.

When we understand the food traditions of indigenous peoples and peasants in the Global South, the ethic of community - based food systems and food sovereignty starts to become clear.

Using his project as a successful example of community - led food sovereignty project, the other presentors laid out multiple layers in which climate - smart agriculture is fraught with social, environmental, and political problems.

FThe food sovereignty movement argues that the focus solely on food security, without addressing the production of food, has caused poor, food - insecure countries to import cheap, subsidized food to the detriment of their local farmers, economies, and cultures, thus adversely affecting longer - term and sustainable food security.

With food sovereignty being such an important determinant of good health for Aboriginal Australians, it was interesting to read an article in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health that aimed to retrospectively evaluate food price discounts in remote Aboriginal community stores.

In its short life, AFSA has undertaken a series of strategically significant initiatives that are beginning to articulate a coherent «fair food movement» in Australia, based on food sovereignty principles.

Wherever and whenever possible AFSA will attempt to have a local AFSA member available to your screening to discuss fair food and food sovereignty issues in Australia, the work of AFSA, and to take part in any speaking slots or panel discussions you may wish to conduct.