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Food Sovereignty

The right of peoples to define their own food systems — local control over seeds, land, and the food supply.

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Books
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Food Sovereignty — Hannah Wittman et al.

A global reconnection of people and place — the concept and movement.

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People
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Hannah Wittman et al.

Professor of land and food systems at the University of British Columbia whose research on food sovereignty has shaped Canadian and Brazilian agrarian-reform debates. Co-edited the 2010 collection that gave the movement its English-language reference text.

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Institutions
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La Via Campesina

The international peasant movement that coined food sovereignty. 200 million farmers speaking with one voice.

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Oakland Institute

Research on land grabs, corporate agriculture, and the fight for food sovereignty worldwide.

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