This document discusses the concept of food sovereignty, which was formulated by the international organization Via Campesina in 1996 as an alternative to the industrial food system. It provides 8 key points about food sovereignty, including that food is viewed as a cultural issue rather than a commodity, family farmers and local communities should control national food systems rather than corporations, and the needs of the national market are prioritized over export markets. The document also notes some elements of food sovereignty that require further nuanced analysis, such as the relationship with global trade, biotechnology, and the role of the nation-state.
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Food Sovereignty Social Movements
1. Datos de hambre
Food as a Commodity, Human
Right or Common Good?
Implications for Hunger Eradication
JOSE LUIS VIVERO POL
PhD Candidate in Food Governance
Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
FOOD
SOVEREIGNTY
SOCIAL
MOVEMENTS
JOSE LUIS VIVERO POL
PhD Research Fellow
in Food Governance
Module “Social Food Movements”
Master Food, Law & Finance
March 2017 – Turin
2. 2
What is FOOD SOVEREIGNTY?
#2. WORK IN PROGRESS,
weak academic/UN support
#4. Alternative to the
industrial oil-dependant food
system
#1. RECENT
CONCEPT
(1996) quickly
evolving,
formulated by
Vía Campesina
#3.
Common
paradigm of
CIVIL SOCIETY
CIVIL & some
STATES
Bolivia, Venezuela,
Ecuador, Nicaragua,
Honduras, Costa
Rica, El Salvador,
Rep Dom
Foto: Alessandra Ferrandes
3. 3
EVOLUTION
From an anti-
establishment and
combative position to
a viable alternative to
tackle current flaws
of the post-industrial
food system, plus
hunger, climate
change and energy
IDEOLOGICAL & propositive: the ONLY option B
Foto:IanMackenzie
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4. Producers and
Consumers
shall regain control of
the national food
systems.
Producing and
comsuming food is a
cultural issue
No to TNC control
over our food
(Henry Kissinger)
Foto: Jose Luis Vivero
5. 5
“FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY exists when…”
Technocrats, technicians, official statements, consensus
Twin track approach (production & acces to food)
No questioning “food is a commodity” or “Balance of Power”:
ACCESS IS THE MAIN ISSUE - NO GUILTIES
THE MARKET IS BEST ALLOCATION MECHANISM
OFICIAL
DEFINITION
World Food Summits
1996 & 2002
Foto: FAO
ACCESS IS MAIN ISSUE
NONE IS GUILTY
THE MARKET IS BEST
ALLOCATION MECHANISM
15. 15
#8. RENDER VISIBLE local CULTURES, indígenous
groups, rural women & agro-biodiversity
Fotos:JoseLuisVivero
16. 16
#8 Elements that require further analysis & nuances
Nuanced
key claims
…that may be difficult
to pose within the food
sovereignty movement
Foto: Yuri Lima
17. 17
#1. Against
Cash crops, exports &
neoliberal markets
Market, yes but…
Priority to national
market
To cultivate for human
consumption
Strong Regulatory
State that gives
primacy to people´s
rights over profit
Binding Food
Treaty
Foto:dflorian1980
18. 18
#2. Against
dumping
Same rules to
all, not
hypocrisie
Dumping is part
of state
sovereignty
(supporting
farmers)
Countries that
can/are willing to
support their
food producers
(Brazil, China,
India)
19. 19
#3. Against
GMOs & Transgenics
Biotecnology is a tool
for modernization…
a. Patents/IP rights
In few corporative
hands
b. Public research
didn´t do its job
MORE A POLITICAL
ISSUE OF CONTROL
THAN A MORAL OR
ENVIRONMENTAL
Foto:Edd.ie
20. 20
#4. Against
biofuels
Generalizations R
good for
communication
but bad for
analysis
Differentiated
Impacts
FOURFOLD
CRISIS at same
time:
Food, Energy,
Environment,
Democracy
Foto: Argonne National Laboratory
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#6. Against
Industrial agriculture
This type (modified
perhaps) will remain
with us many years
It helps producing
affordable food to all
(but subsidised, not
nutritious, not local,
not sustainable)
Transition to better
models is
COMPULSORY
(less polluting,
resource-demanding,
oil-dependent)
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#7. Against
State sovereignty &
in favour of people´s
rights
Democracies do
not represent us
Re-invent more
participative ones
¿Internet?
« Peoples » in
polítics is a fuzzy
concept
(boundaries)
Nation-State
system still valid, it
might change
though
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#8. Against
rural exodus & international
migration
Migrating is not bad
per se
Urbanization is
unstoppable
historical trend
Enhance rural
livelihoods to keep
people in rural areas
Traveling is antidote
to nationalisms &
nurtures
cosmopolitanism
Foto:Dalvaou