*EN Food Sovereignty in a time of pandemic*
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When the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a Public Health
Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020, few imagined the
scale of the devastation that the disease would wreak across the world, or
for how long it would last. As COVID-19 swung from country to country on
its deadly course, it became clear that governmental actions or inactions,
and social-economic-political contexts were as responsible as the virus for
triggering impacts.
The COVID-19 pandemic is far from abating: infections continue to spike in
numerous countries with the emergence of new, more contagious strains of
the SARS-COV-2 virus. The long awaited vaccines have started to be rolled
out but may well be out of reach for majority of the world for several
months or even years due to “vaccine apartheid.” Despite the limited
availability of vaccines due to the time needed for production and testing,
many wealthy nations have purchased sufficient vaccine supplies to immunize
their own populations at least twice, and are backing monopolistic control
over vaccines by pharmaceutical companies through legally enforceable
intellectual property rights in the World Trade Organization.
This edition of the Nyéléni newsletter presents excerpts from some of the
documentation and research conducted by practitioners and advocates of food
sovereignty, particularly, *Voices from the ground, From COVID-19 to
radical transformation of our food systems*, prepared by the Civil Society
and Indigenous Peoples Mechanism to Committee on World Food Security. Links
to the full reports/papers are provided with each excerpt.
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