food sovereignty
12 publications
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    The color of food. Stories of Race, Resilience and Farming Natasha Bowens, New society Publishers, United States, April 2015 
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    Food Utopias: Reimagining citizenship, ethics and community Paul V. Stock, Michael Carolan, Christopher Rosin, Routledge, USA, March 2015 
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    Journal of Consumer Culture July 2014; 14 (2) Special Issue: Consumerist Culture and Social Movements Edited by Francesca Forno, Paolo Graziano, July 2014 
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    Sharing for Survival. Restoring the Climate, the Commons and Society. Brian Davey, FEASTA, Ireland, April 2012 
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    To cook a continent. Destructive extraction and the climate crisis in Africa Nnimmo Bassey, Pambazuka Press;several African countries, January 2012 
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    Food Sovereignty in Canada. Creating Just and Sustainable Food Systems. Edited by Annette-Aurélie Desmarais, Nettie Wiebe, Hannah Wittman, Fernwood Publishing, Canada., September 2011 
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    Food Sovereignty. Reconnecting Food, Nature and Community. Edited by Annette-Aurélie Desmarais, Nettie Wiebe, Hannah Wittman, Fernwood Publishing, Canada., September 2010 
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    Diet for a Hot Planet. The climate crisis at the end of your fork and what you can do about it. Anna Lappé, Bloomsbury publishing plc, USA, April 2010 
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    Sustainable Peasant and Family Farm Agriculture Can Feed the World 2010 
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    Edible Action Food Activism and Alternative Economics Sally Miller, Fernwood Publishing, Canada., September 2008 
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    La Via Campesina.Globalization and the Power of Peasants. Annette-Aurélie Desmarais, Fernwood Publishing, Canada., 2007 
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    Women and Food Sovereignty Kit Judy M. Taguiwalo, Azra Talat Sayeed, Mary Joan A. Guan, Gilbert Sape, Judy A.P. Pasimio, 2005 
3 Videos
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    Life itself (Green market Trinidad) Hayle Meyerhoff, April 2018 
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    Food as a Common Good (José Luis Vivero) January 2017 
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    Climate Change and Community Supported Agriculture Judith Hitchman Urgenci France June 2015 
7 pedagogical tools
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    Poster Building Up Social and Solidarity Economy (BUSSE) Building Up Social and Solidarity Economy (BUSSE) Erasmus+ Project 2021  Ekumenická akademie, 
VSÖK, 
Stowarzyszenie Kooperatywa Spożywcza “Dobrze”, Ekumenická akademie, 
VSÖK, 
Stowarzyszenie Kooperatywa Spożywcza “Dobrze”, RIPESS Europe RIPESS Europe
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    Postcards Building Up Social and Solidarity Economy (BUSSE) Building Up Social and Solidarity Economy (BUSSE) Erasmus+ Project 2021  Ekumenická akademie, 
VSÖK, 
Stowarzyszenie Kooperatywa Spożywcza “Dobrze”, Ekumenická akademie, 
VSÖK, 
Stowarzyszenie Kooperatywa Spożywcza “Dobrze”, RIPESS Europe RIPESS Europe
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    United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas Book of Illustrations 2020 
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    Info Pack Building Up Social and Solidarity Economy (BUSSE) Building Up Social and Solidarity Economy (BUSSE) Erasmus+ Project 2020  Ekumenická akademie, 
VSÖK, 
Stowarzyszenie Kooperatywa Spożywcza “Dobrze”, Ekumenická akademie, 
VSÖK, 
Stowarzyszenie Kooperatywa Spożywcza “Dobrze”, RIPESS Europe RIPESS Europe
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    Booklet : Building Up Social and Solidarity Economy (BUSSE) Building Up Social and Solidarity Economy (BUSSE) Erasmus+ Project 2020  Ekumenická akademie, 
VSÖK, 
Stowarzyszenie Kooperatywa Spożywcza “Dobrze”, Ekumenická akademie, 
VSÖK, 
Stowarzyszenie Kooperatywa Spożywcza “Dobrze”, RIPESS Europe RIPESS Europe
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    Food Sovereignty NOW! An in-depth guide February 2018 
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    Syllabus: Solidarity Economy Movements Craig Borowiak, April 2016 
2 proposals
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    This document has been put together by Gustavo Marín with the help of Germà Pelayo and contributions from Cândido Grzybowski, Matthieu Calame, Jorge Romano and Paul Raskin. It is based on presentations and discussions that focused on the economy during the seminar organized by Ibase, the Forum for a new World Governance (FnWG) and Euralat in Rio de Janeiro from 10 to 12 August 2011. It is of course a work in progress, and will benefit from further critiques and contributions. Gustavo Marin, December 2011 
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    Proposal Paper for the 21 century: People’s Right to Feed Themselves and Achieve Food Sovereignty Completed August 28, 2001, this document summarizes the proposals worked out by the APM networks in fields as various as nutrition, land reforms, international trade, sustainable agriculture, GMOs and land management. August 2001 
14 case studies
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    Community Supported Agriculture -blurring the boundaries between producers and consumers, urban and rural, and furthering our commons and commoning : furthering change! Ruby Van der Wekken, Jukka Lassila, November 2022 
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    May 2020 
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    Transition City Initiative (Jackson Just Transition Plan) Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias Cooperation Jackson, 2019 
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    Transforming our world: A cooperative 2030 - Cooperative contributions to SDG 2 ILO Briefs October 2018 
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    Solidarity economy strengthens peasant agriculture and food sovereignty Workshop at the WSF 2013. International Newsletter for Sustainable Local Development Newsletter #99 Yvon Poirier, Judith Hitchman, June 2013 
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    The Deccan Development Society in India International Newsletter for Sustainable Local Development Newsletter #94 Judith Hitchman, Martine Theveniaut, December 2012 
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    Eléonore Dupré, November 2012 
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    Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture ortoloco Zurich: Urban agriculture as an economy of solidarity City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action Volume 16, Issue 6, 2012 Marit Rosol, Paul Schweizer, 2012 
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    Habitat Improvement Workshop - Temha (Filadelfia – Paraguay) Felipe Zalamea, November 2011 
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    COPAC, 2011 
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    How the indigenous communities recovered their land in the Highlands after independence, and organized themselves to manage their land in a sustainable way, recovered ancestral techniques and developed a local economy in Zimbabwe. Laura ARNALTE, October 2006 
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    A farming system for the mountains The development of a particular farming system, especially designed for the hard conditions of the mountainous country of Lesotho, called “Kingdom in the Sky”, is proving to be successful in achieving food security and reducing poverty amongst rural communities. Laura ARNALTE, October 2006 
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    ASSEFA : 35 Years of Service to Rural Communities of India A holistic approach to community development Yvon Poirier, October 2004 
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    Interview of Sheelu Francis, Tamil Nadu Women’s Collective, Tamil Nadu – India Sheelu Francis is an outstanding leader of the 60 thousand-strong women’s collective, active in the whole state of Tamil Nadu, Southern India. Sheelu is also the international spokesperson for the Collective, speaking about the impacts of international trade, debt and activities of transnational corporations on local development, on food security and sovereignty. Marcos Arruda, February 2004 
34 Analyses/working papers/articles
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    International Forum for Agroecology 
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    The Historical Role of the Women of La Via Campesina in the Current Crisis CAPIRE January 2023 
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    Policy Report : Roots of Resilience.. Land Policy for an Agroecological Transition in Europe. Nyéléni, January 2021 
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    Is eating a settler-colonial act? Food justice and Indigenous sovereignty Article of ABC Religion and Ethics October 2018 
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    Xavier Poux, Pierre-Marie Aubert, September 2018 
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    Public policies for food sovereignty Think piece series Food for Thought No.1 Sylvia Kay, Emily Mattheisen, Nora McKeon, Paola De Meo, Ana Moragues Faus, March 2018 
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    La Via Campesina in Action for Climate Justice Henrich Böll Stiftung Ecology ( Vol 44.6 La Via Campesina, 2018 
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    Eating from the Farm: the social, environmental, and economic benefits of local food systems Friends of the Earth and Urgenci, May 2016 
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    Overview of Community Supported Agriculture in Europe AA.VV., May 2016 
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    Transition towards a food commons regime: re-commoning food to crowd-feed the world Jose Luis Vivero Pol, September 2015 
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    Community Supported Agriculture thriving in China URBAN AGRICULTURE MAGAZINE UA30 Judith Hitchman, June 2015 
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    Judith Hitchman, April 2015 
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    Isidor Wallimann, March 2015 
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    Consumer Culture, Sustainability and a New Vision of Consumer Sovereignty European Society for Rural Sociology. Sociologia Ruralis, Vol 55, Number 4, October 2015 Roberta Sassatelli, 2015 
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    What Place for International Trade in Food Sovereignty? INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE YALE UNIVERSITY SEPTEMBER 14-15, 2013: Food Sovereignty: A Critical Dialogue, Kim Burnett, Sophia Murphy, September 2013 
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    Food as a Commons: Reframing the Narrative of the Food System Jose Luis Vivero Pol, April 2013 
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    UNCTAD Trade and Environment Review 2013: Wake Up Before It’s Too Late, 2013 
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    Rio+20: Progress o procrastination? Judith Hitchman, Martine Theveniaut, July 2012 
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    The Food and Agriculture Organisation and the Social and Solidarity-based Economy Background paper written at the request of the members of the Coordinating Committee of the Civil Society Mechanism of the Committee for Food Security and others present at the Budapest meeting in December 2011 Judith Hitchman, 2012 
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    Food sovereignty in US food movements: radical visions and neoliberal constraints Agriculture and Human Values, 2012: 347-359. 
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    gronomy for Sustainable Development Official journal of the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) Springer Miguel A. Altieri, Fernando R. Funes-Monzote, Paulo Petersen, November 2011 
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    Judith Hitchman, November 2011 
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    Working Paper Food Security and Sovereignty International Forum on Social and Solidarity Economy, FIESS 2011 C.H. Nelson, M.L. Stroink, October 2011 
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    Mamadou CISSOKHO, Thomas LINES, Machiko NISSANKE, Alistair SMITH, September 2011 
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    Economic Alternatives for Gender and Social Justice: Voices and Vision from Latin America Luisa Antolin, Bénédicte Allaert, Martina Nuti, August 2011 
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    Banking biodiversity Valuing or devaluing nature? Food Ethics Council, Vol. 6, Issue 2, Summer 2011. July 2011 
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    Biotechnology and dispossessions in Kenya Khadija Sharife, October 2010 
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    Paper Presented at the Policy Workshop on The Future of Australia’s Mid-Sized Cities. Latrobe University, Bendigo, VIC, 28 & 29 Sept. Jenny Cameron, Rhyall Gordon, September 2010 
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    Sunita Narain, August 2010 
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    Synthetic biology and the next assault on biodiversity and livelihoods April 2009 
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    Forum for Food Sovereignty 2008 
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    Food sovereignty.The people’s alternative. Ernest Cañada, 2006 
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    Food Sovereignty and International Trade Negotiations Negotiations on agricultural products within the WTO have led to deepening inequalities between the North and the South. This Proposal Paper thus suggests, without for all that refusing trade of food products, solutions that take into account sustainable forms of production in favor of small-scale farming in order to establish fair trading. July 2004 
4 Charter/Manifesto
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    A LETTER TO BUILD FOOD SOVEREIGNTY FROM OUR MUNICIPALITIES September 2014 
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    April 2012 
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    The 6 Food Sovereignty Principles Nyéléni 2007 - Forum for Food Sovereignty, February 23rd – 27th, 2007, Sélingué, Mali, 2007 
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    Final declaration of the world forum on food sovereignty, Havana, Cuba, September 7, 2001 From September 3 to 7, 2001, some 400 delegates from peasant and indigenous organizations, fishing associations, non-governmental organizations, social agencies, academics and researchers from 60 countries around the world met in Havana, Cuba at the World Forum on Food Sovereignty. The forum gathered organizations and people committed to sustainable food systems and the peoples’ right to produce, feed themselves and exercise their food sovereignty. September 2001 
4 public contributions
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    May 2024 
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    New institutional actors of the food systems Milan Food Policy and the Urban Food Policy Pact URGENCI 6 th International CSA Conference - 7 th China CSA Conference 19-22 November 2015 | Beijing, China Andrea Calori, November 2015 
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    Presented to the High Level Meeting of the FAO-APRC on 1 October 2010 in Gyeongju, Korea. October 2010 
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    Michel Buisson, April 2006 
12 articles
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    Pedagogy, Participation, and the Nyéléni Global Process Ruby Van der Wekken, October 2025 
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    TOWARDS THE NYÉLÉNI GLOBAL FOOD SOVEREIGNTY FORUM IN 2025 IN INDIA Ruby Van der Wekken, May 2024 
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    Drawing boundaries: Negotiating a collective ‘we’ in community-supported agriculture networks Leonie Guerrero Lara, Giuseppe Feola, Peter Driessen, February 2024 
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    Nyeleni international movement for food sovereignty Article of RIPESS Europe newsletter, December 2023 Dražen Šimleša, December 2023 
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    Right to food and food justice Article of RIPESS Europe newsletter, June 2023 Judith Hitchman, June 2023 
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    Webinar on decent work and SSE in the LAC region. Conclusions after Ripess LAC gathering Article by Ripess Intercontinental, December 2022 December 2022 
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    Food sovereignty – so needed, so far away Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - July 2022 Ruta Śpiewak, July 2022  RIPESS Europe, RIPESS Europe, Fair Trade Polska - Fundacja „Koalicja Sprawiedliwego Handlu” Fair Trade Polska - Fundacja „Koalicja Sprawiedliwego Handlu”
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    For a food system based on agroecology and food sovereignty Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - February 2022 REAS, Red de Redes, February 2022 
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    New network and journal issue on food sovereignty in Hungary Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - November 2021 November 2021 
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    The Unsung Caribbean Roots of the Vegan Food Movement Article of Yes! Magazine, 21 June 2021 Paige Curtis, June 2021 
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    Here and ready: the value of peasant agriculture in the context of COVID-19 Article Eurovia 26/03/2020 March 2020 
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    Food & Solidarity: Leveling Up the Fight Against Hunger Article in Medium, August 2018 Marcus Hill, August 2018 
Other
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    Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 38, No. 3, July 2011, 587–612 Miguel A. Altieri, Victor Manuel Toledo, July 2011 
Web sites :
- Heinrich Böll Foundation
- Navdanya
- Site national des AMAP - Associations pour le Maintien d’une Agriculture Paysanne
- CSA Community Supported Agriculture at UMassAmherst
- Miramap - Mouvement inter-régional des AMAP
- GRAIN
- ALIMENTERRE Plateforme et ressources
- MST - Movimento dos Trabalhaores Rurais Sem Terra
- Gawad Kalinga
- Revista soberania alimentaria, biodiversidad y cultura
- Ruralter - Agronomes Vétérinaires sans Frontières
- Accion ecologica
- Slow Food Ecuador
- Center for Food Safety
- Small Planet Institute
- ZIMSOFF - Zimbabwe Smallhorder Organic Farmers Forum
- Programa Mercosur Social y Solidario
- Movimiento Agroecologico de América Latina y el Caribe - MAELA
- Alimentando alternativas y políticas públicas
- Nyéléni global forum 2025



