Food Sovereignty

Our FORUM2021- Blessed Food, Sacred Earth brought diverse faith voices to continue this call for local, regenerative food production practices and resistance against the industrial agriculture practices that are degrading our earth and poisoning people and the planet.
 

“Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems. It puts the aspirations and needs of those who produce, distribute and consume food at the heart of food systems and policies rather than the demands of markets and corporations.”

— Declaration of Nyéléni, the first global forum on food sovereignty, Mali, 2007

The Temple of Understanding sees the urgent need to transform industrial agriculture and support smaller, more local agriculture as a key ingredient to a peaceful future.

As part of our work at the United Nations, we have, in collaboration with colleagues, made statements at the Geneva based Human Rights Council and represented the Women’s Major Group in the 2020 High Level Political Forum.  Together, these statements outline our human rights based approach, and offer a set of practical implementations that remain relevant guidelines amidst the ongoing UN debates.

Ending Hunger and Achieving Food Security

Human Right to Food

Another part of our work at the United Nations is to follow up on concerns such as those raised by colleague Isis Alvarez of the Global Forest Coalition:

“Perverse initiatives endorsed by the Paris Agreement such as Climate Smart Agriculture surrender too much power to already powerful multinational corporations monopolizing the food industry setting the stage for the further demise of small peasant farmers especially women and their related traditional knowledge. Already a report from FAO (2014) demonstrated how agroecology could feed the world without the need for harmful and misleading technologies while empowering small scale farmers.”

Excerpt from the presentation by Isis Alvarez at the Open Ended Committee of Permanent Representatives to the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), based on “Proposed Resolution for UNEA on Paris Agreement” and “A Reality Check on the Paris Agreement from the Women and Gender Constituency (WGCY)”

Updates:

Faith Based Farming in the United States Panel at FORUM2021

Faith Based Farming in the United States Panel at FORUM2021

SUPPORT LOCAL FARMERS! Join us together with Rev.Hendershot, Interfaith Power & Light; Edgar Hayes & Anne Rader, Freedom Farm Community, Clayton Harvey, Peoples’ Farm, Shani Mink, Jewish Farmer Network, Leah Penniman, Soul Fire Farm, NY for the panel Faith...

“the planet’s health and our health has been nearly destroyed.”

“the planet’s health and our health has been nearly destroyed.”

"Industrial food systems have reduced food to a commodity, to 'stuff' that can then be constituted in the lab. In the process both the planet’s health and our health has been nearly destroyed." Join us together with Dr. Vandana Shiva for FORUM2021 Sacred Food ~...

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