Towards Food Sovereignty

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5851
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Type:	Working Paper
Author:	Pimbert, Michel
Date:	2009
Agency:	International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), London
Series:	Gatekeeper, no. 141
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5851
Sector:	Agriculture
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Subject(s):	food policy environmental policy sustainability agriculture
Abstract:	"This paper describes how achieving food sovereignty will entail a fundamental shift away from the industrial and neo-liberal paradigm for food and agriculture towards: More direct democracy and greater citizen participation in framing policies for food and agriculture; respecting and including the voices of the very poor and marginalised (especially women); Federations of elected citizen-based local councils linking villages, towns, neighbourhoods, local economies and ecological units to act as a significant counter-power to the state and transnational corporations; Democratised research and strong networks of local innovators; Reformed and equitable access and resource use rights, including land, water, forests, seeds and the means of production; Re-localised and resilient food systems based on agro-ecology, eco-literacy and circular economy models."

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