US Food Sovereignty Alliance

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The US Food Sovereignty Alliance

The US Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA) works to end poverty, rebuild local food economies, and assert democratic control over the food system. We believe all people have the right to healthy, culturally appropriate food, produced in an ecologically sound manner. As a US-based alliance of food justice, anti-hunger, labor, environmental, faith-based, and food producer groups, we uphold the right to food as a basic human right and work to connect our local and national struggles to the international movement for food sovereignty.

Learn more about the Alliance and the Work Teams.

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June 2, 2015
2014 Food Sovereignty Prize

The 2014 Food Sovereignty Prize Ceremony will be held at the Iowa Historical Building in Des Moines, IA on the 15th of October 2014.

* Details at www.foodsovereigntyprize.org

* For past recipients of the Food Sovereignty Prize, visit www.foodsovereigntyprize.org/the-honorees/.

For questions, write to foodsovprize@gmail.com.

“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.”

September 23, 2014
USFSA Launches National Days of Action in Defense of Land and the Commons

ACTION AS AN INDIVIDUAL: Sign this petition, put together by Commercial Fishermen for Bristol Bay. Then share it with your friends. Don’t forget: the deadline is this Friday, September 19, at midnight EST / 8:00 pm Alaska time

ACTION AS AN ORGANIZATION: You can make a strong statement by submitting public comment on behalf of your organization or business. Go to this link to customize and submit a letter (see sample below from Stephen Bartlett).

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September 18, 2014
U.S. Farmworkers and Palestinian Farmers Share 2014 Food Sovereignty Prize

Honorees Represent Communities Defending Their Human Rights to Food in the Face of Policies of Land and Water Grabbing, Migration, and Militarization

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Des Moines, IA — The US Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA) is honored to name the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) of Palestine, based in Gaza and the West Bank, and Community to Community Development /Comunidad a Comunidad (C2C) of Bellingham, Washington, as co-recipients of the 2014 Food Sovereignty Prize.

Their stories of continuous struggle to defend the rights of their communities – farmers and fishers in the occupied Palestinian territories and migrant Mexican farm workers in Washington State, both seeking to produce their own food, on their own land, in their home communities – stand in stark contrast to the storylines coming from agribusiness: that technological changes to crops can meet human needs and resolve hunger.

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September 9, 2014