{"id":159,"date":"2011-05-05T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-01-30T12:34:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T17:34:13","slug":"food-sovereignty-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centernet.pcusa.org\/food-faith\/2011\/05\/05\/food-sovereignty-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Sovereignty Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>All people have the right to decide what they eat and to ensure that food in their community is healthy and accessible for everyone. This is the basic principle behind food sovereignty. If you want to support domestic food security through the production of healthy food at a fair price, and you believe that family farmers and fishers should have the first right to local and regional markets, then food sovereignty is for you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><small>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grassrootsonline.org\/publications\/fact-sheets-reports\/food-sovereignty-explained-simple-language-new-booklet\">www.grassrootsonline.org<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"float: right\" href=\"http:\/\/presbyterian.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83451b5a569e201538e4979fb970b-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451b5a569e201538e4979fb970b\" style=\"width: 220px;margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px\" title=\"FS-Booklet-Cover-2010\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/6a00d83451b5a569e201538e4979fb970b-250wi\" alt=\"FS-Booklet-Cover-2010\" \/><\/a> This excellent booklet is now available in Spanish (plus English and Portuguese!). Share it with your friends and family. Put it on your bulletin board at work. Read it to your children for a bedtime story&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Connecting food and faith<\/strong><\/em> . . .<\/p>\n<p>What are the connections of food sovereignty to our faith values? To our commitment to end hunger? Read <strong><span class=\"asset asset-generic at-xid-6a00d83451b5a569e201538e4982c6970b\"><a href=\"http:\/\/presbyterian.typepad.com\/files\/turning-the-tables_malvezzi-brazil_2011.pdf\">Turning the Tables: People First<\/a><\/span><\/strong> and <strong><span class=\"asset asset-generic at-xid-6a00d83451b5a569e20154321c4f14970c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/presbyterian.typepad.com\/files\/the-daily-bread_fuchs-brazil_2011.pdf\">The Daily Bread<\/a><\/span><\/strong> by two theologians from Brazil for their reflections on these questions.<\/p>\n<p><em>Learn more about food sovereignty and consider organizational membership in the US Food Sovereignty Alliance. Congregations may join too! <\/em><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usfoodsovereigntyalliance.org\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to go the USFSA website<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>    All people have the right to decide what they eat and to ensure that food in their community is healthy and accessible for everyone. This is the basic principle behind food sovereignty. If you want to support domestic food security through the production of healthy food at a fair price, and you believe that family farmers and fishers should have the first right to local and regional markets, then food sovereignty is for you.\r\n\r\nvia www.grassrootsonline.org\r\n\r\nFS-Booklet-Cover-2010 This excellent booklet is now available in Spanish (plus English and Portuguese!). Share it with your friends and family. Put it on your bulletin board at work. Read it to your children for a bedtime story&#8230;\r\n\r\nWhat are the connections to our faith values? To our commitment to end hunger?\r\n\r\nRead Turning the Tables: People First and The Daily Bread by two theologians from Brazil for their reflections on these questions.\r\n\r\nLearn more about food sovereignty and consider organizational membership in the US Food Sovereignty Alliance. Congregations may join too!\r\nClick here to go the USFSA website.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1746],"tags":[201,402,339,47,24,36,403,404,200],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-sovereignty","tag-alliance","tag-control","tag-farm","tag-food-sovereignty","tag-hunger","tag-presbyterian","tag-spanish","tag-sustain","tag-usfsa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.5 (Yoast SEO v23.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Food Sovereignty Explained - Food and Faith<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/centernet.pcusa.org\/food-faith\/2011\/05\/05\/food-sovereignty-explained\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Food Sovereignty Explained\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"All people have the right to decide what they eat and to ensure that food in their community is healthy and accessible for everyone. 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