the right of people to define their own food system

A term originally coined by members of Via Campesina in 1996 to refer to a policy framework advocated by a number of farmers, peasants, pastoralists, fisherfolk, Indigenous Peoples, women, rural youth and environmental organizations, namely the claimed “right of peoples to define their own food, agriculture, livestock and fisheries systems,” in con [..]

Communities achieve food sovereignty when they democratically control what they eat, how it is raised and by whom, and how profits in the food system are distributed. The guiding principle behind food sovereignty is the belief that each person has a right to adequately nutritious food and the resources necessary to be able to feed oneself with dign [..]

a concept defining people’s right to define their own food chain and agriculture, incl. protecting and regulating domestic agricultural production and trade in order to achieve sustainable development objectives; to determine the extent to which they want to be self-reliant; and to restrict the dumping of products in their markets.