Food Sovereingty

Food Sovereignty

Food is essential to life. Food provides the basic sustenance for the physical survival and nutrition for healthy human existence, food is also a key element of people's culture. The world now produces enough food to feed everyone, yet millions of people, including 6 million children under the age of 5, die each year as a result of hunger.

Every human being has a fundamental, inalienable right to safe, nutritious and culturally appropriate food. The right to food is the extension of the basic human right to life.

For nations and countries, a rights-based policy to ensure community and peoples control over food systems is the only solution in assuring in assuring right to food, especially the poor and marginalized. Food sovereignty is the right of peoples, communities and countries to determine their own production systems related to agricultural labour, fishing, food, land, and associated policies which are ecologically, socially, economically and culturally appropriate to their unique circumstances.

People's food sovereignty is the power of people and their communities to assert and realize the right to food and produce food, and fight the power of corporations and other forces, through trade, investment and other means, that destroy the food production systems and deny them food and life. Nations and states must exercise food sovereignty to protect, promote and develop the people's food sovereignty form which it draws power.