{"id":15396,"date":"2013-02-19T08:41:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T14:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=15396"},"modified":"2017-08-02T18:39:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T22:39:43","slug":"food-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/food-sovereignty\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvesting Justice: Transforming the Global Food Supply Chain – Food Sovereignty"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Tory Field and Beverly Bell<\/strong><\/p>\n

Over a half-century ago, Mahatma Gandhi led a multitude of Indians to the sea to make salt in defiance of the British Empire’s monopoly on this resource critical to people’s diet. The action catalyzed the fragmented movement for Indian independence and was the beginning of the end for Britain\u2019s rule over India. The act of ‘making salt’ has since been repeated many times in many forms by people\u2019s movements seeking liberation, justice and sovereignty: C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez, Nelson Mandela, and the Zapatistas are just a few of the most prominent examples. Our food movement \u2013 one that spans the globe \u2013 seeks food sovereignty from the monopolies that dominate our food systems, with the complicity of our governments. We are powerful, creative, committed and diverse. It is our time to make salt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So began a statement from the People\u2019s Movement Assembly on Food Sovereignty from the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit in 2010, which launched a national movement. So, too, begins a weekly blog series adapted from Other Worlds\u2019 hot-off-the-press, 140-page book: Harvesting Justice: Transforming Food, Land, and Agriculture Systems<\/a><\/em> in the Americas. The book is the result of five years of interviews and on-site research from throughout the hemisphere, describing strategies to win food justice and food sovereignty<\/a>. It draws from more than 100 cutting-edge successes, grassroots alternatives, and inspiring models. An appendix offers hundreds of ways to get involved.<\/p>\n

From community gardens<\/a> to just global policy, a national and global movement is growing to reclaim food, land, and agricultural systems from agribusiness and put them back in the hands of citizens. A common thread links innovations and successes happening simultaneously around the globe: a vision of a society that values life and the earth over profit. In the U.S., the parts of the movement have often worked in isolation from each other, but in fact they are all pieces of an inseparable whole. Together, they address:<\/p>\n