The 2019 Food Sovereignty Prize (FSP) Ceremony will occur on October 10 as part of the USFSA’s Midwest region’s membership assembly in Ferguson, Missouri. This year’s awardees,Urban Tilth (Richmond, CA) and Plan Pueblo a Pueblo (Venezuela), demonstrate the values and principles of food sovereignty through visionary, collective action to transform food production and distribution systems. […]
For Jonathan Roberts, a member of the Detroit Food Policy Council, food issues are inseparable from the labor that goes into producing, distributing, and preparing and serving food. That’s why he believes that any conversation around food sovereignty must integrate food worker rights and the perspectives of the people—often poor people and people of color—working […]
Prepared by Tyler Short, Sustainable Agriculture of Louisville Introduction The U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance is very excited to announce the winners of the 2019 Food Sovereignty Prize. Urban Tilth (Richmond, CA) is the domestic honoree, and Plan Pueblo a Pueblo (Plan People to People; Venezuela) is the international honoree. The eleventh annual Food Sovereignty Prize […]
For Doria Robinson, executive director of Urban Tilth, an urban agriculture organization in Contra Costa County in the San Francisco Bay Area, reconnecting people with the land is a chief focus of building food sovereignty in cities. Part of that work includes challenging regimes of private property while also rethinking uses of public lands in […]