Food Security and Food Sovereignty

 In Samantha Noll and Esme Murdock's paper. The differences between two different approaches to fighting world hunger, food sovereignty and food security. Food security's stance on the matter is giving access to food of all kinds to everyone whereas food sovereignty is similar but also focuses on how healthy the food is, the location, and methods used in agriculture. The paper then goes onto note that many attempts to combat hunger using food security have happened in the past with noticeable "gaps" which can cause unintended harm to minority populations. A way to fill those gaps as suggested is by addressing the issue using food sovereignty as well. However there are still conflicts between the two approaches. For example, the Columbia River salmon contamination situation highlights the issues with food security at the least because while the solution met the demands of food security organizations, high levels of mercury causing deformations and exposing the indigenous tribe to increased risk of cancer due to industrialization upstream and downstream of the tribe does not allow the situation to meet the standards of food sovereignty organizations.