Papers and Articles

The child malnutrition outbreak has now spread from West Nusa Tenggara, to West Sumatra, Lampung and now South East Sulawesi Provinces. It is ironic, as these provinces have long been known as rice self-sufficient areas. How is it possible that malnutrition can occur in a place like Indonesia where, as an agricultural country, vast fertile land is available for producing a diverse range of foodstuffs.
There must be a fundamental failure in food system policy as most malnutrition cases have (...)

Michael Windfuhr and Jennie Jonsén

Concept and Historical Context :Food Sovereignty

Globalization enslaves the whole of humanity and threatens to destroy nature beyond recovery. Prevention of this destruction and creation of something new is the most important task in hand. Resistance has picked up momentum throughout the world. The World Social Forum process has become the expression of this resistance, which brings hope. We from Sri Lanka would like to join this process in order to add our little bit of strength, but also to gain a lot more strength for our struggle in (...)

Korean farmers have fought against policies to open agricultural markets for several years. Under 36 years of Japanese rule and exploitation, we had to use Japanese food supply. Then we were forced to consume the agricultural surpluses of the US since 1945 when the American military government ruled Korea. As a result, Korean was ruined.
This short history shows that the development of Korean agriculture was blocked by foreign power. The rate of food self-sufficiency has decreased due to (...)

Introduction
There is a strong need to develop and strengthen the concept of peoples� food sovereignty. The aim of this document is to be a helpful tool in that work.
Food sovereignty is a rather new political concept. It was widely introduced internationally for the fist time at the World Food Summit in 1996 by La Via Campesina. Since then many social movements, organisations and people have adopted and taken part in developing the concept of food sovereignty. New issues and challenges (...)