Food Sovereignty: Toward Democracy in Localized Food SystemsMichael Windfuhr and Jennie Jonsén,
FIAN-International (2005)
Food Sovereignty is a policy framework for the governance of food and agriculture, which addresses the problems of hunger and poverty in a new and innovative way. This paper illustrates how the Food Sovereignty policy framework has developed and what the basic assumptions and underlying analysis are. It analyses how the framework relates to the current problems in rural and agricultural policies and discusses possible policy constraints to adoption of the Food Sovereignty policy framework.The current state of development of the Food Sovereignty model mean it cannot yet provide a ready-made set of policies for national and global governance of rural and agricultural policies. The authors find that:the overall concept and strategy needs further improvement and clarificationthe use of terminology and definitions, particularly the rights-based language needs to be more precisethe situation of the urban poor and their access to food has not yet been addressed.The paper concludes by saying that although yet not complete, the Food Sovereignty approach deserves serious consideration.