Sentences with phrase «food sovereignty movement»

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.

The food sovereignty movement aims to close this gap and re-introduce people to farmers and growers around the world who are being exploited for cheap labour.

No, but I do have a clearer picture of where the food sovereignty movement is up to in the States, some ideas about how best to focus our efforts together, and what seem to me some of the weaknesses and gaps in the current movement.

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;

** The term «peasants» has very different meanings around the world, but is the preferred label of smallholder farmers in the food sovereignty movement.

Tammi has also had the privilege to attend a variety of meetings of the global food sovereignty movement, including the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty, Urgenci: the International Network for Community - Supported Agriculture, Slow Meat, the Asia Pacific Regional Meeting of the Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations (UN), Slow Food's Terra Madre, and the Civil Society Mechanism (CSM) that relates to the UN Committee for World Food Security (CFS).

She recently finished her master's thesis on the food sovereignty movement in Australia.

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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.

Food sovereignty is a global movement that embraces hundreds of millions of people in more than 80 countries, and it is firmly grounded in the principles of international solidarity and non-discrimination.

It is high time for farmers movements to strengthen and globalize resistance against the increasing corporate control in agriculture and fight for food sovereignty.

The Regional Learning and Exchange Platfrom for Facilitating Change Processes towards Food Sovereignty (RLEP) is a three - year series of workshops that «deals with acquiring or deepening concepts... of participatory methods for facilitation, analysis and dialogue, values and skills to support grassroots initiatives and movement building in the frame of food sovereignty.&raFood Sovereignty (RLEP) is a three - year series of workshops that «deals with acquiring or deepening concepts... of participatory methods for facilitation, analysis and dialogue, values and skills to support grassroots initiatives and movement building in the frame of food sovereignty.&rafood sovereignty.»

Recognising the lack of vision and leadership on these profound questions, the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance was formed in 2010, consciously linking Australia to the global movement for food sovereignty, with the aim of promoting a different, values - based national conversation on the future of our food and farming systFood Sovereignty Alliance was formed in 2010, consciously linking Australia to the global movement for food sovereignty, with the aim of promoting a different, values - based national conversation on the future of our food and farming systfood sovereignty, with the aim of promoting a different, values - based national conversation on the future of our food and farming systfood and farming systems.

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.

This year AFSA also became internationally active and recognised as a movement leader for food sovereignty in Australia.

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.

Seriously though, there is a sense within your committee, and among other frontline advocates and activists, that food sovereignty in Australia and AFSA in particular is on the verge of a genuinely powerful mass movement - a shift in the way people relate to food, agriculture and the environment.

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

Saulo works to advance initiatives of food sovereignty and agroecology by identifying resources and network opportunities that will strengthen the work of grassroots organizations and social movements.

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