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They consulted together to key questions: What, exactly, is Food Sovereignty? And how can a process be put into action at the international level to recognise food sovereignty as a protected right. What emerged was the most detailed and cohesive picture of food sovereignty to date. | They consulted together to key questions: What, exactly, is Food Sovereignty? And how can a process be put into action at the international level to recognise food sovereignty as a protected right. What emerged was the most detailed and cohesive picture of food sovereignty to date. | ||
Food sovereignty includes the right to food – the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through socially just and ecologically sensitive methods. It entails peoples’ right to participate in decision making and define their own food, agriculture, livestock and fisheries systems. It defends the interests and inclusion of the next generation and supports new social relations free from oppression and inequality between men and women, peoples, racial groups and social classes. It promotes a genuine agrarian reform and defends access to, and the sharing of, productive territories free from the threat of privatisation and expulsion. | |||
Food sovereignty defends the interests and the right to food and to produce food of peoples and communities, including those under occupation, in conflict zones, facing and/or recovering from disasters, as well as those who are socially and economically marginalised, such as dalits, indigenous peoples and migrant workers. Food sovereignty provides a policy framework for food, farming, pastoral, fisheries and other food production, harvesting and gathering systems determined by local communities. | |||
== The six pillars and what they mean == | == The six pillars and what they mean == | ||