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[Ebook.XVw4] Food Movements Unite! Strategies to Transform Our Food System

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Published on: 2011-11-22
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Original language: English

Food Movements Unite! Strategies to transform our food systems The present corporate food regime dominating the planet’s food systems is environmentally destructive, financially volatile and socially unjust. Though the regime’s contributions to the planet’s four-fold food-fuel-finance and climate crises are well documented, the “solutions” advanced by our national and global institutions reinforce the same destructive technological path, the same global market fundamentalism, and the same unregulated consolidation of corporate power in the food system that brought us the crisis in the first place. A dynamic global food movement has risen up in the face of this sustained corporate assault on our food systems. Around the world, local food justice activists have taken back pieces of the food system through local gardening, organic farming, community-supported agriculture, farmers markets, and locally-owned processing and retail operations. Food sovereignty advocates have organized locally and internationally for land reform, the end of destructive free trade agreements, and support for family farmers, women and peasants. Protests against—and viable alternatives to—the expansion of GMOs, agrofuels, land grabs and the oligopolistic control of our food, are growing everywhere every day, giving the impression that food movements are literally “breaking through the asphalt” of a reified corporate food regime. The social and political convergence of the “practitioners” and “advocates” in these food movements is also well underway, as evidenced by the growing trend in local-regional food policy councils in the US, coalitions for food sovereignty spreading across Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe, and the increasing attention to practical-political solutions to the food crisis appearing in academic literature and the popular media. The global food movement springs from strong commitments to food justice, food democracy and food sovereignty on the part of thousands of farmers unions, consumer groups, faith-based, civil society and community organizations across the urban-rural and north-south divides of our food systems. This magnificent “movement of movements” is widespread, highly diverse, refreshingly creative—and politically amorphous. Food Movements Unite! is a collection of essays by food movement leaders from around the world that all seek to answer the perennial political question: What is to be done The answers—from the multiple perspectives of community food security activists, peasants and family farm leaders, labor activists, and leading food systems analysts—will lay out convergent strategies for the fair, sustainable, and democratic transformation of our food systems. Authors will address the corporate food regime head on, arguing persuasively not only for specific changes to the way our food is produced, processed, distributed and consumed, but specifying how these changes may come about, politically. Health Yahoo Beauty This Is The Weird Way That Kim Kardashian Knew Kanye West Was "The One" Archives - Philly.com Search and browse our historical collection to find news notices of births marriages and deaths sports comics and much more Homepage UN Global Compact The United Nations Global Compact is a voluntary initiative based on CEO commitments to implement universal sustainability principles and to undertake partnerships in ... UN News Centre - United Nations Drought drives food price spike in East Africa UN warns. East Africas ongoing drought has sharply curbed harvests and drive up the prices of cereals and other ... Publications UN Women Headquarters United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) (272) United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (5) DSC Logistics More News & Events. January 2017 On the radio: CEO Ann Drake interviewed on Marketplace DSC Logistics CEO Ann Drake was interviewed recently on Marketplace ... Dealing with Extremists Beyond Intractability Depending on one's perspective extremism can have both positive and negative consequences. On the positive side it can draw the attention of one's opponent the ... Environmental News and Information MNN - Mother Nature ... Mother Nature Network is the world's leading source for environmental news advice on sustainable living conservation and social responsibility. Mahatma Gandhi - Wikipedia Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi; Born: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 2 October 1869 Porbandar State Kathiawar Agency British Indian Empire (now in Gujarat India) Jamie's Food Revolution Jamie Oliver Food revolution day is back and bigger than ever find everything you need to know about Jamie Oliver's mission to give every child the food they deserve.
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