Food Sovereignty and Food Security

Finding answers to problems is already difficult enough. Imagine how much more difficult finding that answer would be when it would disrupt so much of what is already going on in society. Trying to establish forms of food justice would be difficult, while at the same time being vital to people well-being. Food Sovereignty and Food Security are quite similar in the fact that they both attempt to address hunger and poverty, with two differing mindsets. Food Security sounds fantastic overall. The idea that people will have reliable access to sufficient healthy foods. People would no longer have to worry about when their next meal will come, where they will be able to get the food, as well as how they would obtain the food. This sounds like a dream come true for most, which in some ways it is. The issue here is this does not address any of the other issues that led to this in the first place. This is where Food Sovereignty comes into play. Food Sovereignty is more focused to individuals and communities having the rights to take the reigns of their food supply. This is geared towards smaller communities and helping out those that are responsible for the food that we get, and often take for granted. Neither plan is perfect but ideas from both can be used to help out society. The biggest one that would likely help out the most, is by including these people more in the decision making process. Nobody truly understand what others are going through more than the people themselves. By having more diversity in the mindsets with these policies, less assumptions can be made about what people actually need, allowing people to truly get what they need. Inequality is still a big factor here too. Addressing some of these issues would likely help as well in this overarching issue of food justice. Poverty, and discrimination are two of the leading factors in this food crisis. By addressing some of these issues, people can finally be on an equal playing field and can properly work together to solve this food crisis together.  Some of these problems seem as though they were intentionally made to make peoples lives more difficult. At the end of the day there is no winning or losing in life. How is making life harder for others beneficial?