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=Reading materials=
=Reading materials=
* Esther Vivas, [http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article1774 Food crisis: Causes, consequences and alternatives]
* Via Campesina , [http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article22231 Shashe declaration: Africans! We can feed ourselves with agroecology and food sovereignty]
* Via Campesina , [http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article23480 Movements unite in Mali, Confronting Powerful Interests:"We are decolonizing Africa here".]]
== To go further ==
* Esther Vivas , [http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article23238 The food crisis strikes again]
* Esther Vivas , [http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article23238 The food crisis strikes again]
 
* Esther Vivas , [http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article22642 The whys of Hunger]
* La Via Campesina , [http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article22231 Shashe declaration: Africans! We can feed ourselves with agroecology and food sovereignty]
* Esther Vivas , 2011 [http://socialistresistance.org/1855/alternatives-to-the-dominant-agricultural-model Alternatives to the dominant agricultural model]
* [[Media:Grain-93-seized-the-2008-landgrab-for-food-and-financial-security.pdf‎]]
* [[Media:Grain-4357-food-and-climate-change-the-forgotten-link.pdf ]]

Latest revision as of 12:56, 5 December 2011

Summary : food crisis, food sovereignty, peasant movements.

- What is the meaning of the actual global food crisis? The numbers of people suffering from hunger, undernourishment or malnutrition amounts to 1 billion, the majority of which are peasants producing food. Is the earth capable of proving food for 7 billion people and more ( perhaps 9 billion in 2050 …)? How has traditional agriculture been transformed in the second part of the 20th Century? (agribusiness, agrochemicals, monocultures, pesticides, GMO,…)?
- What is the meaning of the concept of food sovereignty? Which type of agriculture, of commerce of food stuffs, which relations between the local and the global, between cities and countryside? Who decides on production, on trade and on consumption of our food?
- What is the potential role of the new peasants organisations like La Via Campesina? What is the link between farmers struggles, the fight of indigenous people and an agriculture respectful of nature, of the climate and of humans? What possible alliances between farmers and workers?

Reading materials

To go further