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This year 2021, we celebrate 25 years of peasant-led efforts and campaign in our communities to bring food sovereignty to reality – healthy diets, healthy soils, healthy seeds, agroecology etc – and continue to resist the capitalist model. This vision, of relating to nature and with one another harmoniously, practised for thousands of years was put into words by La Via Campesina and allies at the 1996 World Food Summit in Rome. We defined "Food Sovereignty" as the right of people to autonomously produce healthy, nutritious, climatically, and culturally appropriate food, using local resources and through agroecological means, primarily to address the local food needs of their communities.
As a mark of celebration, we are releasing our first official poster in a series that will explore the different dimensions of Food Sovereignty, as laid out at the 1996 Summit.
Art work by Rosanna Morris
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