An Alternative Framework
Instead of securing food for the people of the world, corporate-driven globalization prioritizes export-oriented production, increases global hunger and malnutrition, and alienates millions of people from productive assets and resources such as land, water, fish,
seeds, technology and traditional wisdom. Fundamental change to this global regime is urgently needed.
A broad movement of farmers, fisher folk, and citizens around the world has emerged to organize around this principle, calling it food sovereignty:
“Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to define their own food and agriculture; to protect and regulate domestic agricultural production and trade in order to achieve sustainable development objectives; to determine the extent to which they want to be self reliant; to restrict the dumping of products in their markets, and; to provide local fisheries-based communities the priority in managing the use of and the rights to aquatic resources. Food sovereignty does not negate trade, but rather, it promotes the formulation of trade policies and practices that serve the rights of peoples to safe, healthy and ecologically sustainable production.”
The People‚ Food Sovereignty Network has developed an Alternative Framework which offers governments, intergovernmental agencies and civil society solid proposals to implement food sovereignty on a local, regional, national and international level.