Forum documents

• Call to action
  5 October 2006, by jmdesfilhes

  Time for Food Sovereignty
  Take part in the struggle against corporate control of our food, fish and agriculture. The time is overripe for food sovereignty – the alternative to the current neoliberal policies on food, fish and agriculture.
  Food and agriculture are fundamental to all peoples, in terms of both production and availability of sufficient quantities of safe and healthy food, and as foundations of healthy lives, communities, cultures and environments. On the contrary, the (...)

• TOWARDS A FOOD SOVEREIGNTY ACTION AGENDA
  3 February 2007, by maitreuweb

  TOWARDS A FOOD SOVEREIGNTY ACTION AGENDA

• theme 7. Production Models:impacts on food sovereignty, people, livelihoods and environment
  5 February 2007, by jmdesfilhes

  There are two conflicting rural development and production models: Industrial agribusinesses, fisheries and aquaculture produce food ingredients in monocultures for global markets controlled by few TNCs. They are supported by public and private research institutions and promoted for ‘food security’ yet, they harm small-scale farmers, pastoralists, artisanal fisherfolk and indigenous peoples. And they damage the environment – soils, water, agroecosystems and our planet’s biodiversity and life (...)

• Theme 4. Sharing Territories and Land, Water, Fishing Rights, Aquaculture and Forest Use, between sectors
  5 February 2007, by jmdesfilhes

  Territories are faced with increasing pressure from competing uses, often leading to serious conflicts. These conflicts are not just related to the shared use of natural resources such as land, water and forests, but also to often divergent views regarding these territories.
  However, in many cases these conflicts involve actors who all acknowledge the common need for the right to food sovereignty – these players will be present at the Nyéléni Forum. It is therefore key that during this (...)

• Theme 3. Access to and Control over Natural Resources for Food Sovereignty
  5 February 2007, by jmdesfilhes

  CONTEXT
  Food sovereignty has its roots in the lives and struggles of peasant and family farmers, fishers, pastoralists, indigenous peoples and other small-scale food producers and workers. It is embedded in how food is produced, stored, shared, consumed and exchanged. Central to this are access, control and stewardship of the natural resources that farming, pastoral, fishing and indigenous communities rely on for food and livelihoods, for example, land, forests, water, seeds, livestock (...)

• Theme 2. Local Knowledge and Technology
  5 February 2007, by jmdesfilhes

  CONTEXT
  Until relatively recently, knowledge about how to produce or collect food was the domain of rural communities. Over generations, communities built an impressive base of agricultural biodiversity, effective fishing methods, technologies and knowledge that was adapted to their local environmental conditions, their socio-economic needs, and their cultural interests. Innovation happened and technologies were developed by and for local communities. The twin processes of colonialism and (...)

• Theme 5. Conflict and disaster: responding at local and international levels
  5 February 2007, by jmdesfilhes

  CONTEXT
  As global warming, political turmoil and scarcity of natural resources increase, we foresee that conflicts and disasters, will unfortunately only multiply worldwide. Therefore the discussion on how they impact on us and how we respond is an important one for the food sovereignty movement but one which has received relatively little attention till now. Many disasters are not ‘natural’, although they are triggered by climatic or seismic events beyond our control. The disastrous effects (...)

• Theme 1. Trade Policies and Local Markets
  5 February 2007, by jmdesfilhes

  Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to define their own food and agriculture policies; to protect and regulate domestic agricultural production and trade in order to achieve sustainable development objectives; to determine the extent to which they want to be self reliant; to restrict the dumping of products in their markets, and; to provide local fisheries-based communities the priority in managing the use of and the rights to aquatic resources. Food sovereignty does not negate trade, (...)

• Programme summary
  12 February 2007, by maitreuweb
• Theme 6. Migration
  12 February 2007, by maitreuweb

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