Farmers and peasant groups around the world are pressing the concept of ‘food sovereignty’ as a challenge to the World Trade Organisation’s agriculture policies, which they say push millions of small farmers off their land and lead to food insecurity. Described by the international farmers network Via Campesina as ”the right of peoples to define their own food and agriculture; (and) to protect and regulate domestic agricultural production and trade”, food sovereignty, its proponents say, is the only way to alleviate poverty and achieve sustainable development in the developing world.
The People’s Food Sovereignty network, a coalition of non-governmental organisations and movements from the North and South, released a Food and Agriculture statement on its website demanding that ”governments remove agriculture and food from the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and establish an alternative international framework for the sustainable production and trade of food and agriculture”.
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