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Food Sovereignty - the Movie

Raj — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:40:19 -0600

Via Phil, here's a short movie shot at the World Summit on Food Sovereignty. A fine introduction to the subject.

Food Sovereignty: An Introduction

Raj — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:41:47 -0700

The 2007 World Summit on Food Sovereignty has come to an end. Of the many good things at the conference's website is one of the best definitions of Food Sovereignty. Here are the edited highlights from the Declaration, to which 500 representatives from over 80 countries signed their names:

We are fighting for a world where… ... read more »

…all peoples, nations and states are able to determine their own food producing systems and policies that provide every one of us with good quality, adequate, affordable, healthy, and culturally appropriate food;

Nyéléni : the 2007 World Summit on Food Sovereignty

Raj — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:57:21 -0700

Yes, I've just come back from one international conference, having cast a few (and soon many more) aspersions on it. But not all such gigs are lamentable. Via Campesina's African organisations are mounting a major colloquium on food sovereignty in Mali later this month. The forum, oddly enough, is called "Nyéléni 2007". Here's a short gloss explaining why.

"Nyéléni was an only child, which in Africa was considered a curse. Nyéléni, as a girl and only child of her parents, suffered in her youth from all the mocking her parents were subjected to. She secretly resolved to remove this slur that men had cast on her by defeating them on their own ground, that is to say agriculture and working of the land. ... read more »