Food sovereignty
Up Front: Food Sovereignty
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Tackling the global food crisis from the bottom up.
In 2009, for the first time in human history, over a billion people were officially classified as living in hunger. This record total was not a consequence of poor global harvests or natural disasters.hunger on this scale is the result of the hijacking of the global food system by large agribusiness and food retailers.
People in rural areas have been driven off their land and lost their livelihoods, while low paid workers in cities struggle to put food on the table. Riots and social unrest have spread across the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, as hunger and desperation have forced the poor onto the streets to demand change.
