Food sovereignty

Food sovereignty is "the right of peoples to define their own food and agriculture; to protect and regulate domestic agricultural production and trade in order to achieve sustainable development objectives; to determine the extent to which they want to be self reliant; to restrict the dumping of products in their markets; and to provide local fisheries-based communities the priority in managing the use of and the rights to aquatic resources. Food Sovereignty does not negate trade, but rather it promotes the formulation of trade policies and practices that serve the rights of peoples to food and to safe, healthy and ecologically sustainable production." 
International Institute for Environment and Development, May 15 2008 
-"Statement on Peoples' Food Sovereignty" by Via Campesina, et al. 
=== Global News ===
2010
World Food Day marked by call to democratise agricultural research and ensure food sovereignty, 16/10/2010 iied.org, 
The United Nations' Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier De Schutter, has backed citizens worldwide who are demanding a fundamental shift in food and agricultural research to make them more democratic and accountable to society. 
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