Food Sovereignty: A Building Block for People’s Sovereignty

The workshop will engage folks to grapple with the concept of food sovereignty. Folks will be motivated to reform U.S. food and agricultural policies to uphold peoples rights to decide how and where their food is produced, with first rights to local and regional markets for family farmers, fair prices, and care of commons resources such as land and water.

Key goals:

•Educate urban and rural community organizations (farmer, farmworker and small producer organizations, consumers and others) about food sovereignty as an alternative rooted in social justice and sustainability
•Reflect on how U.S. agricultural and trade policies undermine food sovereignty for people all over the world
•Envision collectively how we can act together to change those policies and support food sovereignty

The workshop addresses many cross-cutting themes of the USSF including neoliberalism and corporate globalization by focusing on U.S. agricultural and trade policies that are neoliberal and support corporate globalization from an internationalist and solidarity perspective. It supports movement building by enlisting U.S. peoples’ participation in the global movement for food sovereignty.