Around the world, food is deeply political—controlled, denied, defended and reclaimed.
From addressing hunger as a weapon of war in Sudan and Burma, to safeguarding ancestral farming knowledge in West Africa and challenging corporate control of seeds in Canada, these are the stories of a long-standing commitment to food sovereignty so that communities can thrive.
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In your September Bulletin, we highlight counterparts’ local solutions to the impacts that conflict, climate change and corporate control have on food systems.
When local shellfish gatherers in the Bijagós Archipelago of Guinea-Bissau noticed declining stocks of the mollusks, they knew what to do.
Lucy Sharratt is the founding coordinator of the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN).
“It’s a deliberate way to wear people down, by starving them into giving up,” shared Ghadeer from our Sudanese counterpart SWRC.
