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S: FAO – https://www.fao.org/family-farming/detail/es/c/877809/ (last access: 20 January 2024); IFAD – https://www.ifad.org/en/web/latest/-/the-importance-of-food-sovereignty-for-indigenous-peoples-a-conversation-with-dr.-elifuraha-laltaika (last access: 13 January 2024)
N: 1. – food (n): Middle English foode, fode, from Old English foda “food, nourishment; fuel,” also figurative, from Proto-Germanic *fodon, from Germanic *fod- “food,” from PIE *pat-, extended form of root *pa- “to tend, keep, pasture, to protect, to guard, to feed” (cognates: Greek pateisthai “to feed;” Latin pabulum “food, fodder,” panis “bread,” pasci “to feed,” pascare “to graze, pasture, feed,” pastor “shepherd,” literally “feeder;” Avestan pitu- “food;” Old Church Slavonic pasti “feed cattle, pasture;” Russian pishcha “food”).
-sovereignty (n): late 14c., soverainte, “pre-eminence, excellence, superiority;” also “authority, rule, supremacy of power or rank,” from Anglo-French sovereynete, Old French souverainete, from soverain (see sovereign (adj.)). The meaning “existence as an independent state” is from 1715; the general sense of “state or character of being in power” is by 1860. Sovereignness (1580s) seems to be disused.
2. Right of each nation to maintain and develop their own capacity to produce foods that are crucial to national and community food security, respecting cultural diversity and diversity of production methods.
3. Food sovereignty is based in:
- Focuses on food for the people by: a) placing people’s need for food at the centre of policies; and b) insisting that food is more than just a commodity.
- Values food providers by: a) supporting sustainable livelihoods; and b) respecting the work of all food providers.
- Localizes food systems by: a) reducing the distance between suppliers and consumers; b) rejecting dumping and inappropriate food aid; and c) resisting dependence on remote and unaccountable corporations.
- Places control at a local level by: a) placing control in the hands of local food suppliers; b) recognizing the need to inhabit and share territories; and c) rejecting the privatization of natural resources.
- Promotes knowledge and skills by: a) building on traditional knowledge; b) using research to support and pass on this knowledge to future generations; and c) rejecting technologies that undermine local food systems.
- Works with nature by: a) maximizing the contributions of ecosystems; b) improving resilience; and c) rejecting energy intensive, monocultural, industrialized and destructive production methods.
4. Must not be confused with “food security”.
The concept of food sovereignty is not antagonistic or conflictive to the concept of food security. Of the two characteristics of food sovereignty, one goes beyond the concept of food security and falls within the field of the very definition — inalienable — of a modern state, which includes its sovereignty in general and specifically in defining its own food policies. The other major concept of food sovereignty, regarding the ways in which food is produced and the prioritizing of small farming, falls short of the concept of food security and within the realm of specific public policies.
5. Regulations and Standards (Food); Federal Administration (Canada); Collaboration with the FAO: The right of people to define their own policies and strategies for the sustainable production, distribution and consumption of food, with respect for their own cultures and their own systems of managing natural resources and rural areas, and is considered to be a precondition for food security.
6. Collocations:
– Adj. + noun (soverignty): absolute, full, limited, unlimited.
– Noun + noun (sovereignty): claim to, declaration of, loss of, transfer of, violation of.
– Verb + noun (sovereignty): claim, declare, defend, enjoy, establish, exercise, give up, have, proclaim, relinquish, renounce, violate.
7. Cultural Interrelation: We can mention the book Food Sovereignty in International Context Discourse, Politics and Practice of Place (2015) by Amy Trauger.
S: 1. OED – https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=food; https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=sovereignty (last access: 20 January 2024). 2 to 4. IIED – https://www.iied.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/migrate/G02268.pdf (last access: 13 January 2024; FAO – https://www.fao.org/3/ax736e/ax736e.pdf (last access: 13 January 2024). 5. TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=FOOD+SOVEREIGNTY&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 20 January 2024). 6. OD – https://www.freecollocation.com/search?word=sovereignty (last access: 13 January 2024). 7. GB – https://www.google.es/books/edition/Food_Sovereignty_in_International_Contex/aFGhBgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Food+Sovereignty&printsec=frontcover (last access: 13 January 2024).
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CR: food security, hunger.
