2009 Special Broadcasts / People’s Food Sovereignty Now!

Civil Society Forum parallel to the World Food Summit on Food Sovereignty

Forum web site

  • 17 November 2009 | |

    Building Community Power

    Germán Bedoya talks about the Forum ’Peoples Sovereignty Now!’

    German Bedoya, member of the National Agrarian Coordination of Colombia and member of the CLOC – Via Campesina told Real World Radio that seed conservation, the agrarian reform, taking care of the territories and building power alternatives are part of the struggle for food sovereignty. Read more

  • 17 November 2009 | |

    The tree of science

    Interview with Angel Strappazzon, from MOCASE and Via Campesina delegate for Latin America in the Forum Peoples Sovereignty Now!

    One of the leaders of the Argentinean peasant movement assesses the FAO's summit in Rome, the current role of social movements in this global debate and the agreement reached with the Argentinean government that would imply the return of 500,000 families to the countryside. Read more

  • 17 November 2009 | |

    Cesar’s thumb

    The global food crisis can be solved through peasant agriculture, instead of the G8

    The Italian capital is the setting of a debate around the life of all the humanity, although the media makes a division between the official representatives participating in the United Nations Food Summit and those participating in the Forum Peoples' Sovereignty Now! Read more

  • 17 November 2009 | |

    The time is now

    Sofía Monsalve talks about the main themes of the People’s Food Sovereignty Forum.

    Who decides on the food policies? Who controls the resources? Who has access to food? These are some of the questions that the hundreds of delegates from social movements and organizations have been discussing for several days in Rome as part of the Forum: Peoples Food Sovereignty Now! Read more

  • 13 November 2009 | |

    Who Decides?

    Interview with Maryam Rahmanian from Iran in the framework of the Peoples´ Food Sovereignty Forum

    The global food crisis is also a crisis of the governance of food and trade systems. Food and agriculture decisions are increasingly moving away from democratic controls and are serving the interests of companies and economic elites, both in the North and in the South. Read more

  • 5 November 2009 | |

    Sovereignty Now

    People´s Food Sovereignty Forum in Rome

    Over 400 delegates, coming from 70 countries of four continents, will meet in Rome from November 13th to 17th for the People´s Food Sovereignty Forum 2009 Read more

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