Occupy Our Food Supply on F27!
Occupy Our Food Supply on February 27, 2012 will be a major decentralized global day of food action and solidarity. Actions are planned in dozens of cities across North America, Europe, and the world. Occupy Our Food Supply is bringing together the Occupy, sustainable farming, food justice, buy local, slow food, and environmental movements for a global day of action on February 27, 2012. Inspired by the theme of CREATE/RESIST, thousands will come together to creatively confront corporate control of our food supply and take action to build healthy, accessible food systems for all. Check out actions in your area, or create your own! Landless Workers Movement of Brazil (MST) wins the 2011 Food Sovereignty Prize The US Food Sovereignty Alliance and the Community Food Security Coalition awarded the Food Sovereignty Prize to the Landless Workers Movement of Brazil (MST). The prize recognizes leaders in the global movement for food sovereignty. MST has addressed the extreme disparities in land access in Brazil by organizing over 350,000 landless rural families to resettle and farm formerly idle land.
Honorable mentions included the Movimiento Campesino a Campesino (Farmer to Farmer Movement) which is helping farm families in Central America and beyond to improve their livelihoods while conserving natural resources. South Central Farmers is an urban oasis where predominately Meso-American families can retain their traditional methods of farming. And the Grow Biointensive Agricultural Center of Kenya (G-BIACK) has trained thousands of small-scale farmers in agroecological farming with a marginalized community including orphans and widows.
Read more about the MST and the other awardees. World Food Day Call to Action!
September 26, 2011 One billion people on the planet are hungry, but still the industrial model of agriculture continues to spread. On World Food Day, we are called to fashion the future we need—a future where we rebuild our communities around local food, democracy, sustainability and justice. The US Food Sovereignty Alliance is joining with La Via Campesina and food sovereignty movements to push back against transnational corporations responsible for this short-sighted industrial model that harms us all—from farmers who can no longer save seeds, to fishermen who can’t afford their nets, to workers oppressed in the fields and in the shopping aisle, and to everyday people eating food that makes them sick. We are pushing back not as an industrial monoculture but as a rainbow of food democracies built on resilient agroecosystems and communities around the world. Celebrate World Food Day, October 16 Read about the actions coming up and tell us about yours! Have you organized an event? Fill out THIS FORM to let us know. US Food Sovereignty Alliance Represents North America at the 2011 Nyeleni European Food Sovereignty Forum August 29, 2011 Christina Schiavoni represented the USFSA as North American Representative at the 2011 Nyeleni European Food Sovereignty Forum, where she spoke about the innovative and energetic work to regrow democracy and end hunger and poverty occurring in the United States. Christina emphasized that both global policy as well as rebuilding local food economies are essential for food sovereignty. Read her speech at the opening plenary of the Forum, read an interview of Christina with the World Development Movement, and visit the website of 2011 Forum, as well as the original 2007 Nyeleni Forum.
Read the Declaration of Nyeleni Europe for some inspiration, hope, and energy.
The US Food Sovereignty Alliance challenges the World Agricultural Investment Conference for exploiting rural areas, increasing the threat of climate change, and plunging millions further into hunger and poverty. The Alliance contends that agriculture, in order to protect the necessities of human life, cannot be ways for corporations to make large profits. |   |
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