US Food Sovereignty Alliance

Category: Food Sovereignty

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  • 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

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    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, and Community to Community Development /Comunidad a Comunidad (C2C) of Bellingham, Washington, as co-recipients of the 2014 Food Sovereignty Prize.

    Their stories of continuous struggle to defend the rights of their communities – farmers and fishers in the occupied Palestinian territories and migrant Mexican farm workers in Washington State, both seeking to produce their own food, on their own land, in their home communities – stand in stark contrast to the storylines coming from agribusiness:  that technological changes to crops can meet human needs and resolve hunger.

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  • Celebrating International Day of Farmers’ Struggles

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    The US Food Sovereignty Alliance launches its Seed Report on the International Day of Farmers’ Struggles in Defense of Peasants’ and Farmers’ Seeds. La Via Campesina, the largest social movement in the world, designated April 17 as a day to celebrate and support the struggles of farmers, rural people and their allies for justice and self-determination.

    Read more and download the report here

  • Call to Action! World Food Day & Food Week of Action

    The US Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA) Calls on Individuals and Organizations to Celebrate World Food Day and the Food Week of Action!
    World Food Day – October 16, 2014
    Food Week of Action – October 12-19, 2014

    World Food Day reminds us that everyone has the right to be able to feed herself and her family. Yet our current systems are depriving nearly a billion people around the world (and in the U.S.) of the basic necessity and dignity of sufficient, culturally appropriate and healthy food. 

    So we must turn our unjust food and farming system upside-down and focus our energy, organizing and resources on rebuilding local food economies — everywhere! Therefore, the US Food Sovereignty Alliance joins with La Via Campesina, the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance and food sovereignty movements locally and globally to fight against multinational corporations responsible for privatizing seeds and for promoting chemical-dependent, industrial-scale forms of agriculture and fisheries that bankrupt, displace, and exploit fishers, farmers, farmworkers, and other food workers. At the same time, we celebrate and are mobilizing to establish a rainbow array of diverse and resilient communities and agro-ecological food production around the world.  

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  • Check out the latest Nyéléni Newsletter

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    The international Nyéléni newsletteraims to be the voice of the international movement for Food Sovereignty . Its main goal is to strengthen the grassroots voices of the movement by providing simple material on food sovereignty issues and creating a space – for individuals and organizations involved in the struggle – to exchange their experiences and share information.

    Subscribe to the Nyéléni Newsletter!

     

    And check out other Resources and Publications on food sovereignty, plus the excellent resource Harvesting Justice, from USFSA member Other Worlds.