The US Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA) works to end poverty, rebuild local food economies, and assert democratic control over the food system. We believe all people have the right to healthy, culturally appropriate food, produced in an ecologically sound manner. As a US-based alliance of food justice, anti-hunger, labor, environmental, faith-based, and food producer groups, […]
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2014 Food Sovereignty Prize
The 2014 Food Sovereignty Prize Ceremony will be held at the Iowa Historical Building in Des Moines, IA on the 15th of October 2014. * Details at www.foodsovereigntyprize.org * For past recipients of the Food Sovereignty Prize, visit www.foodsovereigntyprize.org/the-honorees/. For questions, write to foodsovprize@gmail.com. “Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally […]
USFSA Launches National Days of Action in Defense of Land and the Commons
ACTION AS AN INDIVIDUAL: Sign this petition, put together by Commercial Fishermen for Bristol Bay. Then share it with your friends. Don’t forget: the deadline is this Friday, September 19, at midnight EST / 8:00 pm Alaska time ACTION AS AN ORGANIZATION: You can make a strong statement by submitting public comment on behalf of your organization or business. Go to […]
U.S. Farmworkers and Palestinian Farmers Share 2014 Food Sovereignty Prize
Honorees Represent Communities Defending Their Human Rights to Food in the Face of Policies of Land and Water Grabbing, Migration, and Militarization FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Des Moines, IA — The US Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA) is honored to name the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) of Palestine, based in Gaza and the West Bank, […]