*EN FTAs and agriculture*
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FTAs aren’t just about ‘trade’. They’re comprehensive agreements to lock in
free market capitalism, strengthen the power of global corporations,
finance, and powerful governments, and advance their geopolitical
objectives.
There are direct links between FTAs, climate change, ecological
devastation, and violations of Indigenous Peoples’, workers’ and farmers’
rights.
*We must struggle for **real systemic change**,* saying “no to FTAs and
global free market capitalism”, combatting racist politics and defending
mother earth.
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*EN Agroecology at a crossroads*
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Agroecology has become a territory in dispute.
While mainstream institutions and corporations for years have marginalized
and ridiculed agroecology, today they are trying to capture it. They want
to take what is useful to them – the technical part – and use it to fine
tune industrial agriculture, while conforming to the monoculture model and
to the dominance of capital and corporations in structures of power.
Social movements, on the other hand, use agroecology to challenge existing
power structures, to resist the multiple attacks on our Mother Earth, and
as a tool for the social, economic, cultural, political and ecological
transformation of communities and territories.
*Their agroecology is merely technical, our agroecology is political.*
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*EN Smallholders' markets*
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Bulk of the food consumed in the world is produced by smallholders and
workers, and channeled through *“territorial markets”*, which reflect the
huge diversity of contexts that characterise small-scale food production
and distribution.
Territorial markets are an important source of employment and critical in
battling hunger and poverty.
These markets increasingly face threats from corporate led
super/hyper-markets, procurement, storage, certification and food safety
systems.
Corporations use neoliberal trade and investment agreements, and
sophisticated marketing systems to control how food is produced, priced,
distributed and consumed.
*Protecting and strengthening the markets of smallholders are crucial
aspects of food sovereignty and restoring societal control over the
economy.*
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*EN Land Reform and food sovereignty*
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Capital is appropriating our territories. Hence, we must respond by turning
the struggle for land into a *struggle for territor.*
This will require forging unions between –on one side– peasant farmers, day
laborers, indigenous peoples, nomad shepherds, artisan fishermen, forest
peoples and other rural communities, and –on another– city dwellers,
especially those in suburban communities and consumers.
It will require producing healthy food using agroecology and know-how handed
down from our ancestors and steeped in popular traditions.
We must show that land in community hands is better for society and Mother
Earth than land which is at the mercy of capital.
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Corporate governance of food systems*
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>From our oceans and seashores, crossing our lands and reaching deep into
the minerals of our earth, there is a dangerous threat dominating our
current political and economic relations around the world: the so-called
private corporate capture of policy-making public spaces.
For decades, civil society and social movements have been struggling to
democratically strengthen these spaces in order to achieve the so needed
peoples’ food sovereignty. *But this process is under a severe threat these
days...*
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Forests, Foraging and the Commons*
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About 75 percent of the world’s poor live in rural areas in developing
countries.
Most survive on subsistence farming, artisanal fisheries and/or nomadic
herding and many are landless, working as seasonal labour on farms,
plantations, in fisheries and industry.
Their daily food needs are met primarily through local production,
foraging, hunting and fishing - often by women - on small farms, common
grazing
lands and in woods, forests, streams, rivers and lakes.
*Reduced access to these ecosystems or decrease in the foods gathered in
these environments can result in hunger and acute malnutrition.*
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Food Justice and Food Sovereignty in USA*
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*Read the first edition of the newsletter about the situation of one
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Sovereignty in the *
*United States.Food Sovereignty* emerged as La ViaCampesina’s bold response
to the “free trade” regimes destroying livelihoods around the world.
It’s been taken up widely by communities around the World reeling from the
spread of agrofuels, GMOs, land grabs and the “privatization of everything.”
Food Sovereignty reflects the deep resistance of people’s historical
struggles against exploitation, oppression and colonization.
When communities fighting for their rights discover the principles of food
sovereignty, their reaction is often “Yes! That’s what we’re doing!”
*Food justice* is one such struggle. The radical roots of food justice in
the United States are deep in the movement for Black Liberation.
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Nutrition and Food Sovereignty*
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Human nutrition refers to the interaction between food and the human body,
and the resulting health and wellbeing of individuals.
The best source of nutrition continues to be breastfeeding and diversified
rich traditional foods developed by cultures throughout history.
Nutrition is only one of the dimensions of eating linked to human health.
The best way to guarantee adequate nutrition is through the provision of
diversified, safe, and balanced diets, based on local fresh
produce which is agroecologically produced, and prepared according to
cultural practices.
*Nutrition cannot be separated from food, production models, food systems
or eating practices.*
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Rights to Natural Resources* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=65>
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As the world lurches from crisis to crisis, the value of land, water,
forests, minerals and other natural resources as sources of wealth creation
continues to rise. For those with long-standing ties to land, water and
territories, nature’s greatest wealth and value is life itself, and these
crises simply confirm the necessity for humans to live symbiotically with
nature. However for many, natural resources are things that can be
parceled, packaged, changed, bought, sold and traded in markets far away
from the original location of the resource.
*In this edition of *
*Nyéléni learn more how peoples across the world are fighting to secure and
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*defend their rights to natural resources and the rights of nature. *
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