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Food Sov­er­eignty Week — Starts 24^th Octo­ber : Spe­cial Interest Stor­ies daily

This week we will be bring­ing you a selec­tion of talks from Lon­don and Brighton about food sovereignty

For the first time in human his­tory, over a bil­lion people have been offi­cially clas­si­fied as liv­ing in hun­ger. This record total is not a con­sequence of poor global har­vests or nat­ural dis­asters. Hun­ger on this scale is the res­ult of a global eco­nomy in which hun­dreds of mil­lions of small farm­ers, fish­er­folk, pas­tor­al­ists and indi­gen­ous people have faced ruin through the hijack­ing of the global food sys­tem by large agribusi­ness and food retailers.

Together with its part­ners in Brazil, Sri Lanka and Mozam­bi­que, and in the wider move­ment of La Via Campes­ina, War on Want is com­mit­ted to the altern­at­ive model of ‘food sov­er­eignty’, an approach to the food crisis that pri­or­it­ises people’s right to food, agro-ecology and a global food sys­tem free of cor­por­ate control. 

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