User:Cierracardenas/Food security

For my addition, I seek to give a more concrete definition of what Food Security is and what it emerged out of.

Revised 12/8/22

12/13 moved under "food justice movement" --> food sovereignty

The concept of “food sovereignty” is important within food justice movements in the US. "Food sovereignty" is a response to a history of colonialism, power, and industrialization. Its main goal is to raise awareness of, “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”. The term “sovereign” can be understood as independence, self governance, or a non-alignment - in the context of the Western world, this is seen as autonomy from the global food industry. Because the industrialization of food has caused a lack of agency over food source, Food sovereignty declares the business practices of multinational corporations as a form of neocolonialism. For this reason, the food sovereignty movement is in direct opposition with multinational corporations. This oppositional relationship between people and the food industry has birthed the Food Justice Movement, a conversation that food sovereignty is apart of.

“The food justice movement is a different approach to a community’s needs that seeks to truly advance self-reliance and social justice by placing communities in leadership of their own solutions". More than this, it is the freedom to determine how food is grown and consumed. This movement is a direct challenge to colonial food pathways, as it calls attention to the need for self reliance from an industrial machine.