McClintock & Noll discuss their ideas of conflicts between food security & food sovereignty beyond the effects of food distribution and how it is marketed.
They state that food sovereignty encompasses wider food justice endeavors that includes key points of food security. Using Food security as a strong base with emphasizing food security lesser role to build more just food system.
Goals of food security are dictated to provide the population with adequate, safe, & nutritious foods. Providing our food are assessable through economic and physical parameters. (ie: "Food Desserts"). Heavily relying on free market and its corresponding economic abilities. Identifying food as a commodity letting the free market dictate growth and control. Cons to food security its strong relationship to Neoliberalism's dynamics, inducing fewer local influences & opportunities. Thus, allowing for more environment damages.
La Via Campesina (LVC) is an international movement representing 200 million farmers. This cohort established the term food sovereignty in 1996. It gives people the right to healthy, culturally appropriate & ecologically purchased food. Emphasized on its local production, smaller-scale farming & community control, over resources of the land, seeds, & irrigation.
"KEY GOALS FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY"
- Individual rights - enact personal agriculture/food policies, not dictated by market demands.
- Main focus on sustainable, agroecological practices.
- Food for the people, local control building knowledge and skills in tangent with nature.
- Giving farmers rights to needed Agri materials. Ending misogynistic threat in rural areas.
- Priority over food as a commodity eliminating corporate controls. Viewing human needs as a priority.
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One thing that I have noticed is that this is one of those times when you cannot have one without the other. Food sovereignty would be preferred, as it helps keep a community/culture together. However, food security is a necessary "lifeboat" to ensure that a community will have the chance to continue (if done the right way). I mentioned in my blog post that this is similar to an emergency room. Food sovereignty is the healthy habits you do to keep you out of the emergency room, but the food security is still there if you need it. The ultimate goal should be to keep a community as healthy and "self-sustaining" as possible.
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