Support USFSA
Posted: May 30, 2013 at 1:55 pm
Support the US Food Sovereignty Alliance!
Donate to USFSA member groups to strengthen the food sovereignty movement in the United States.
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Donate to the US Food Sovereignty Alliance!
Your gift will help ensure that all people have the right to healthy, culturally appropriate food, produced in an ecologically sound manner.
As a volunteer, member-based organization, you can be sure that your gift will be used where it is needed most. Donations will be used to support the Alliance’s Annual Assembly, to fund scholarships to ensure full participation in the Assembly, to plan and implement actions, events and campaigns emerging from the Alliance Teams, as well as to cover administrative support.
Equally important is your engagement in the Alliance. Consider organizational membership in the Alliance. Even if you are not a USFSA member, you can participate in the Alliance Teams, which you can learn about here.
Questions? Contact us at info@usfoodsovereigntyalliance.org.
Join us!
Tags: Donate, Food Sovereignty, SupportDefense of Mother Earth
Posted: April 29, 2013 at 3:09 pm
Indigenous Environmental Network Marches for Climate Change
Members of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) took the lead at the Forward on Climate march of 35,000 people in DC, protesting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, and asking for limits on carbon pollution and investment in renewable energies. While in DC, five indigenous and First Nation women of the Women’s Earth Climate Caucus delivered a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency from IEN, Climate Justice Alignment and others calling for stronger action on climate change.
IEN is a member of the US Food Sovereignty Alliance and Simone Senogles co-chairs the Defense of Mother Earth Work Team with Sara Mersha of Grassroots International.
Calendar
Posted: November 8, 2012 at 12:12 am
May 20 Deadline for Nominations
“Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems.”
The U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance is proud to announce that it is accepting nominations for the 2013 Food Sovereignty Prize. Since 2009, the Food Sovereignty Prize has been awarded to an organization – rural or urban – that advances the cause of food sovereignty through education and direct, collective action. Prize winners must also have implemented programs and policies that prioritize the leadership of women, indigenous peoples, people of color, migrant workers and other food providers in the global food movement.
The 2013 Fifth Annual Food Sovereignty Prize will be awarded by the U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA), a US-based collaboration of food justice, anti-hunger, labor, environmental, faith-based, and family farming and fishing organizations. The USFSA works to connect local and national struggles for food justice with the international movement for food sovereignty to uphold the right to food as a public good and basic human necessity.
Call for Nominations
To see the full Call for Nominations and submit a nomination, visit www.foodsovereigntyprize.org. (French and Spanish versions available.)
To see the past recipients of the Food Sovereignty Prize, visit www.foodsovereigntyprize.org/the-honorees/.
To learn more about Food Sovereignty, visit www.foodsovereigntyprize.org/about-fs/.
For questions, write to foodsovprize@gmail.com.
Research and Publications
Posted: October 23, 2012 at 9:22 pm
Food Crisis
From Food Rebellions to Food Sovereignty: Urgent call to fix a broken food system
By Eric Holt-Giménez, Ph.D., Social Scientist and Executive Director of Food
First/Institute for Food and Development Policy. The real causes of the 2008 and 2011 food price crises were numerous, but the fact that our global agricultural system is dominated by corporations, free trade, and speculation was neglected by most media outlets.
Harvesting Money – The Global Land Grab
By Eric Holt-Giménez, Ph.D., Social Scientist and Executive Director of Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy.The food and financial crises of 2008 ignited a massive round of “land grabbing” in the Global South, with foreign agribusinesses leasing and buying large tracts of land to produce both food and fuel crops for export.
The World Food Crisis: What’s behind it and What we can do about it
By Eric Holt-Giménez, Ph.D., Social Scientist and Executive Director of Food
First/Institute for Food and Development Policy.
Agroecology
Can Sustainable Agriculture Feed the World?
Sustainable Agriculture CAN feed the world, and it can protect the planet and end hunger and poverty.
Agroecology and the Right to Food
“The report therefore calls States for a fundamental shift towards agro-ecology as a way for countries to feed themselves while addressing climate and poverty challenges.”
Food Sovereignty
“We, more than 500 representatives from more than 80 countries, of organizations of peasants/family farmers, artisanal fisherfolk, indigenous peoples, landless peoples, rural workers, migrants, pastoralists, forest communities, women, youth, consumers and environmental and urban movements have gathered together in the village of Nyéléni in Sélingué, Mali to strengthen a global movement for food sovereignty…”
An accessible description of what food sovereignty is, who is affected, and why it is more important than ever.
Theological
Short reflection on food sovereignty by Werner Fuchs, Lutheran pastor and translator, member of the CONSEA (National Council for Food Security of Brazil).
Turning the Tables: People First
One-page reflection on food sovereignty by Roberto Malvezzi, Pastoral Land Commission (Brazil).
Corporate Control
Watch the trailer to Foodopoly, the film and book from Wenonah Hauter of Food and Water Watch.
The Urban and Northern Face of Global Land Grabs
Taken from a presentation at the International Conference on Global Land Grabbing, Eric Holt-Gimenez of Food First and Annie Shattuck and Yi Wang explain how land grabs are affecting urban areas in the Global North, in addition to the rural land grabs in the Global South. This shared, universal threat requires immediate action and global solidarity
Grabbing the Food Deserts: Large-scale land acquisitions and the expansion of retail monopolies
Eric Holt-Gimenez, Annie Shattuck, and Yi Wang explain how food retail corporations are behind the urban and northern land grab in this Food First backgrounder.
Anti-Racism
From The Applied Research Center, “The Color of Food” reveals that racism and exploitation that exist in our food system and suggests ways to transform our food system into a vehicle of justice.
Youth and Food Justice: Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement
“Youth and Food Justice: Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement,” by Anim Steel Food First Backgrounder, 2010.
Tags: Defense of Mother Earth, Food Sovereignty, Land/Resource Grabs, Local Food & Farming
