Excerpt: Food Movements Unite!
George Naylor, “Without Clarity on Parity, All You Get is Charity.”
Every country should be allowed to have food sovereignty, so that each country can democratically develop its own policy to choose the kind of agriculture its people want, and ensure its citizens’ food security and political sovereignty. With food sovereignty, a country can make sure that its food production is ecological and economically fair, and provides economic opportunity in rural as well as urban areas, so as not to be subject to the whims of global markets, global corporations, or the use of food as a weapon by more powerful countries. After all, why should a country and its people lose its sovereignty and security by having to import food from the “winners” who are willing to depopulate rural communities and pollute and destroy their farmland with pesticides and unwise production?