[Pirateninfo] Food Sovereignty working paper available online

[pcl at jpberlin.de]

Hallo zusammen,
hier sende ich Ihnen/Euch eine mir sehr wichtig erscheinende Mail im 
Bereich Globalisierung und Ökologie weiter: Eine möglicherweise für 
viele von uns wichtige englische Arbeit von FIAN und anderen über 
Ernährungssouveränität mit 70 sehr großzügig formatierten Seiten 
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Betreff: 	Food Sovereignty working paper available online 
Datum: 	Tue, 27 Sep 2005 14:25:04 +0100 
Von: 	Patrick Mulvany <patrickmulvany at clara.co.uk> 

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Apologies for X-Posting

I am pleased to announce that the ITDG publishing / FIAN paper "Food 
Sovereignty: towards democracy in localized food systems" is now 
available online in English. The Spanish version will be available 
soon. La versión española del documento de ITDG publishing / FIAN 
"Soberanía Alimentaria: hacia la democracia en sistemas alimentarios 
locales" estará disponible pronto.

"FOOD SOVEREIGNTY: towards democracy in localized food systems" by 
Michael Windfuhr and Jennie Jonsén, FIAN. ITDG Publishing - working 
paper. 64pp. 2005.
This paper provides a comprehensive history, overview and analysis of 
the Food Sovereignty policy framework. Links to many key statements 
and documents produced over the past decade. 
Access this paper online at <www.ukabc.org/foodsovpaper.htm>. PREFACE 
pasted below. 

I would like to thank ITDG Publishing for making this working paper 
freely available for personal use.

Best wishes

Patrick

Patrick Mulvany

PREFACE
 
ITDG commissioned this paper by FIAN as a contribution to the 
discourse on Food Sovereignty, the rapidly developing food and 
agriculture policy framework. In a world plagued simultaneously and 
perversely by hunger and obesity, rational policies are overdue for 
governing the way food is grown, processed and traded, and how the 
benefits of the world's food systems are shared. 
 
Most food in the world is grown, collected and harvested by more than 
a billion small-scale farmers, pastoralists and artisanal fisherfolk. 
This food is mainly sold, processed, resold and consumed locally, 
thereby providing the foundation of peoples' nutrition, incomes and 
economies across the world. At a time when halving world poverty and 
eradicating hunger are at the forefront of the international 
development agenda, reinforcing the diversity and vibrancy of local 
food systems should also be at the forefront of the international 
policy agenda. Yet, the rules that govern food and agriculture at all 
levels - local, national and international - are designed a priori to 
facilitate not local, but international trade. This reduces diversity 
and concentrates the wealth of the world's food economies in the 
hands of ever fewer multinational corporations, while the majority of 
the world's small-scale food producers, processors, local traders and 
consumers including, crucially, the poor and malnourished, are 
marginalised.
 
In this paper, Michael Windfuhr shows how the Food Sovereignty policy 
framework addresses this dilemma. The policy framework starts by 
placing the perspective and needs of the majority at the heart of the 
global food policy agenda and embraces not only the control of 
production and markets, but also the Right to Food, peoples' access 
to and control over land, water and genetic resources,  and the use 
of environmentally-sustainable approaches to production. What emerges 
is a persuasive and highly political argument for refocusing the 
control of food production and consumption within democratic 
processes rooted in localised food systems.
 
Now, when there is intense debate about how the world will halve 
poverty and eradicate hunger, the policies that govern the way food 
is produced, consumed and distributed, how it is processed and 
traded, and who controls the food chain, need to be looked at 
comprehensively. This timely paper points a way forward and invites a 
more focused consideration of the principles behind what is fast 
becoming recognised as the most important food and agriculture policy 
consensus for the 21st century.
 
Patrick Mulvany
Senior Policy Adviser
ITDG
March 2005

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