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US City declares Food Sovereignty
A Taste of What's To Come: Food Sovereignty Declared in U.S. City
Sedgwick, Maine has done what no other town in the United States has done. The town unanimously passed an ordinance giving its citizens the right “to produce, process, sell, purchase, and consume local foods of their choosing.” This includes raw milk, locally slaughtered meats, and just about anything else you can imagine. It’s also a decided bucking of state and federal laws.
U.S. looks to Monsanto to feed the world
Wed, 2011-02-02 10:52 -- Pesticide Action Network North America
Marcia Ishii-Eiteman
Building a movement for Food Sovereignty in Canada
In the Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol 37, Issue 1, Cathleen Kneen discusses the history and potential of a movement for food sovereignty in Canada in relation to the global peasant mobilization.
GE Rice
An authoritative and comprehensive paper on the genetic engineering of the world's leading staple crop, by Dr. Ricarda Steinbrecher, Co-Director of Econexus
Souverainete alimentaire : draft
Une première revue de littérature sur la SA, version draft
The Real Cost of Food - Fact Sheet
This one page fact sheet was created as one in a series by the Capital Region Food and Agriculture Initiatives Roundtable (CR-FAIR), based in Victoria, British Columbia. The subtitle of the document is: "Growing dependencies and shrinking resources call for changes to our food system."
Manifesto on the Future of Seeds
Towards Food Sovereignty: Transforming knowledge & ways of knowing
Written by Michel Pimbert, this is the latest chapter of the International Institute for Environment and Development's on line multimedia book in the making - "Towards Food Sovereignty. Reclaiming autonomous food systems". Released in early May 2009, this new chapter focuses on the need to transform agricultural research.
Urban Chicken Policy Across Canada
This paper examines the bylaws across Canada with regards to urban poultry and compares them as well as having a great list of sources for anyone interested in setting up urban hen advocacy in their own communities.
The New Ecuadorian Constitution would Recognize Food Sovereignty as a means to Realize the Right to Adequate Food
Press Release by FIAN International, Sept 22, 2008.
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