Food Sovereignty is one of the emerging concepts in present-day debates on food security and the right to food. Different than the Right to Food, which is a legal framework, Food Sovereignty is a political and policy framework that requires that states regain the necessary policy space to conduct their fight against food insecurity. The political challenges include the following elements: the implementation of the right to food; the realization of the right of peoples and nations to decide on their own agricultural and food policies; access of smallholder farmers to productive resources to produce food; and the development of sustainable local food networks.
On 20 March 2007, a Symposium on this subject was organised by Wageningen International, ICCO and Graduate School VLAG. The organisation welcomed nearly 130 participants.
Please have a look at the presentation given that day:
Photo's of the Seminar