Justice for ..food? Huh???

Food Justice & Sovereignty

 What do you think?

Where do you think the food (produce) you buy is

mostly farmed?

How is the food (produce) transported?

Where is the food you/family mostly buy sold?

Where is most of our foods produced
in the US?
Corporate Connections to Organic
Foods
 Food Sovereignty
As defined by…
Via Campesina
“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.”
What’s the difference?
Non-governmental
Organization (NGO) /
Community Service
Organization (CSO)
“Food sovereignty is the right of peoples,
communities, and countries to define their own
agricultural, labor, fishing, food and land
policies, which are ecologically, socially,
economically and culturally appropriate to their
unique circumstances. It includes the true right to
food and to produce food, which means that all
people have the right to safe, nutritious and
culturally appropriate food and to
food-producing resources and the ability to
sustain themselves and their societies.”
 Six Food Sovereignty Principles
- Food for People

- Valuing Food Providers

“What can you/we do to
- Localizing Food Systems strengthen the food
sovereignty?”
- Making Decisions Locally

- Building Knowledge and Skills

- Working with Nature

What does ‘Food Justice’ mean to you?
The ability to grow and access nutritious food is underlined with
inequities.

Creating pathways to ensure all families have access to fresh,

nutritious and affordable food is food justice.

Resisting big corporations control of our food system is food justice.

Resisting legacy of racism that underlies the food system in the US is

food justice.