Week 5

        This article examines the relationship between two approaches to addressing world hunger. Food security and food sovereignty. Food security focuses on ensuring that people have economic and physical access to safe nutritious food. It applies more towards individuals and focuses more on fair distribution of resources. The 4 pillars of food security are economic access, food availability, stability for food, and food utilization. Some organizations that work towards food security are the world bank and the world trade organization and their large-scale project is eliminating malnutrition and hunger worldwide. According to a study on poverty by the world bank 200,000 farms disappeared between 1966 and 1995 alone". This resulted in a greater need for food security programs.

    Food sovereignty is food intertwined with political action, culture identity, and place. It focuses on the related concepts of self-determination and self-governance. It includes a wide variety of social justice issues in the broader discussion of food-related changes. Food sovereignty movements demand that environmental impacts be considered. They also are very community focused, and place based. They seek to address racial and gender injustices. They place a wide range of social justice concerns under the umbrella of food justice. Food sovereignty movements are things like community gardens because they focus on getting the community together and participating in something together.

    The main idea of this article is to explain the two different types of approaches to addressing hunger. I think that both do a great job on addressing this because one is more community based and gets people together to work towards a common goal while the other one is involved with bigger organizations.