food sovereignty

(noun)

A policy framework advocated for by a number of farmers, peasants, pastoralists, fisherfolk, indigenous peoples, women, rural youth, and environmental organizations, which consists of the right of peoples to define their own food, agriculture, livestock, and fisheries systems, in contrast to having food largely subject to international market forces.

Related Terms

Examples of food sovereignty in the following topics:

  • Hunger, Malnutrition, and Family

    • Undernutrition is the result of chronic underconsumption of food.
    • Starvation describes a state of exhaustion of the body caused by lack of food and may be fatal.
    • The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations purports that the world already produces enough food to feed everyone–over 6 billion people–and could feed double that number of people.
    • Amartya Sen won his 1998 Nobel Prize in part for his work in demonstrating that hunger in modern times is not typically the product of a lack of food, but rather problems in food distribution networks and governmental policies in the developing world.
    • Some organizations raise the issue of food sovereignty and claim that every country on earth (with the possible minor exceptions of some city-states) has sufficient agricultural capacity to feed its own people, but that the free trade economic order prevents this from happening.

  • [PF content: Popular Sovereignty]

  • International Humanitarian Policies and Foreign Aid

    • There are three main types of economic foreign aid: humanitarian aid, development aid, and food aid.
    • Food aid can benefit people suffering from a shortage of food.
    • It can be used to increase standard of living to the point that food aid is no longer required .
    • Conversely, badly managed food aid can create problems by disrupting local markets, depressing crop prices, and discouraging food production.
    • Aid workers from USAID (the United States Agency for International Development) distribute food to Kenya during a food crisis.

  • American Indian Relocation

    • Indian termination was a series of laws initiated in the 1940s but aggressively developed in the 1950s and 1960s that stripped Indian nations of their sovereignty and had disastrous consequences on the economic, social, and cultural condition of American Indians.
    • In essence, the policy terminated the government's recognition of tribal sovereignty, trusteeship of Indian reservations, and exclusion of Indians from state laws.
    • Termination began with a series of laws directed at dismantling tribal sovereignty and introduced in the 1940s.
    • Most families quickly spent the money earned from the initial land sale and were forced to sell more land in order to obtain food for the family.
    • They also fought political and legal battles in Washington, D.C. for the restoration of tribal sovereignty.

  • Popular Consent, Majority Rule, and Popular Sovereignty

    • Popular consent, majority rule, and popular sovereignty are related concepts that form the basis of democratic government.
    • Popular consent (or the consent of the governed), majority rule, and popular sovereignty are related concepts that form the basis of democratic government.
    • Popular sovereignty is thus a basic tenet of most democracies.
    • Thenceforth, American revolutionaries generally agreed and were committed to the principle that governments were legitimate only if they rested on popular sovereignty–that is, the sovereignty of the people.
    • Explain the significance of popular sovereignty and the consent of the governed for liberal democracy

  • The Sovereign States

    • The sovereignty of the states as opposed to the power of the federal government has been a longstanding issue in American politics.
    • Domestically, the federal government's sovereignty means that it may perform acts, such as entering into contracts or accepting bonds, that are typical of governmental entities but not expressly provided for in the Constitution or other laws.
    • Sometimes, the Supreme Court has even analogized the states to being foreign countries in relation to each other as a means to explain the American system of state sovereignty.
    • However, each state's sovereignty is limited by the U.S.
    • Compare the sovereignty of the states to the power of the federal government

  • Thinking Politically

    • Other states are subject to external sovereignty or hegemony where ultimate sovereignty lies in another state.
    • For example, when India was a colony of the British Empire, India did not have sovereignty of its internal affairs.
    • Similarly, the American Revolution brought an end to British sovereignty over its American colonies in the New World.
    • Other states are subject to external sovereignty or hegemony where ultimate sovereignty lies in another state.
    • For example, when India was a colony of the British Empire, India did not have sovereignty of its internal affairs.

  • Food Spoilage by Microbes

    • Food spoilage is the process in which food deteriorates to the point it is not edible to humans or its quality of edibility becomes reduced.
    • Food spoilage is the process in which food deteriorates to the point that it is not edible to humans or its quality of edibility becomes reduced .
    • Food that is capable of spoiling is referred to as perishable food.
    • Various bacteria can be responsible for the spoilage of food.
    • The toxic effects from consuming spoiled food are known colloquially as "food poisoning", and more properly as "foodborne illness. "

  • Monarchies and Liberal Democracies

    • Monarchies, in which sovereignty embodied in a single individual, eventually gave way to liberal democracies.
    • A monarchy is a form of government in which sovereignty is actually or nominally embodied in a single individual, the monarch.

  • Characteristics of the State

    • States differ in sovereignty, governance, geography, and interests.
    • Other states are subject to external sovereignty or hegemony where ultimate sovereignty lies in another state.