Food Sovereignty

Lessons From The Sahel For The International Day Of Peasant Struggle

April 17, 2026 Jonis Ghedi-Alasow, People's Dispatch. Strategize! Food and Agriculture, Food Sovereignty, Sahel region, Seeds, Women

On April 17, 1996, military police in Eldorado dos Carajás, Brazil, killed 21 landless workers who were blocking a road to demand agrarian reform. They were members of the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST). Since then, La Via Campesina has designated April 17 as the International Day of Peasant Struggle – a global day to honor those fighting for land, seeds, water, and food sovereignty, and to hold accountable those who profit from their dispossession. As we observe the 30th anniversary of this day in Africa, we are compelled to pay closer attention to important developments in the Sahel region of our continent, where, when the terrorists arrived, the women of Burkina Faso hid seeds in their hair.

Across Africa, Farmers Are Adopting Regenerative Agricultural Practices

April 17, 2026 Kate Schecter, Resilience. Create! Africa, climate crisis, Food Sovereignty, Regenerative Farming

The US and Israel’s attack on Iran has led to significant price increases on fuel. Oil and gas capture the headlines. But fertilizer prices could also skyrocket, especially in low-income countries. This is what happened when Russia invaded Ukraine. In African countries, dependency on imported fertilizers underlines the need for a new approach to food production and distribution. That new approach is often called food sovereignty. In the past, civil society groups and international development organizations have focused on food security, ensuring people have enough to eat.

The Restorative Promise Of Agroecology

April 7, 2026 Thomas Shivers, Resilience. Create! Agroecology, Food and Agriculture, Food Sovereignty, Malawi

Agroecological techniques are among the most environmentally sustainable methods for addressing food insecurity and offer promising climate change adaptation and mitigation pathways. Such systems support weed suppression, help break pest life-cycles, and provide essential ecosystem services like soil enhancement, nitrogen fixation, and carbon sequestration. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has determined that agroecological food systems not only create opportunities for food security, but ‘also benefit land-based ecosystems, water, poverty and livelihoods, and human well-being’.

Ireland: Breaking New Ground For The Local Food Movement

January 8, 2026 Oliver Moore, Resilience. Create! Farming, Food Sovereignty, Ireland, Local Economy

Feeding Ourselves is a community of practice in Ireland (CoP) – an organised but informal network of food system animators from production to consumption and all the elements in between – which has been running for some years. Initially it was just a gathering, one that ARC has partnered with many times (e.g. last year’s here). Now, the CoP runs webinars, newsletters and organises events to build its knowledge and action base. Its most recent event was a big step forward for the good food good farming movement in Ireland.

Forging A Stronger Farmers’ Movement In Tanzania

December 31, 2025 Prasanth R. and Kate Janse Van Rensburg, People's Dispatch. Organize! Africa, Agroecology, Farmers, Food and Agriculture, Food Sovereignty, Tanzania

Over 670 farmers gathered in Morogoro, Tanzania, on December 4-5 to chart a course for the future of MVIWATA (National Network of Farmers Groups in Tanzania), one of Africa’s most unique farmers’ organizations. The occasion was MVIWATA’s 30th Annual General Meeting (AGM), which serves as the highest democratic platform for members to voice their aspirations for the organization’s future. As the powerful slogan, “Mviwata, Sauti ya Mkulima” (MVIWATA is the voice of the farmer) and “Mtetezi wa Mkulima, Mkulima Mwenyewe” (The defender of the farmer is the farmer), rang through the hall time and again, the farmers debated and arrived at conclusions on strengthening their networks in concrete ways.

Burkina Faso Is Moving Towards Self-Sufficiency In Food Production

November 13, 2025 Pedro Stropasolas, People's Dispatch. Create! Agrarian Reform, Alliance of Sahel States (AES), Burkina Faso, Food Sovereignty, Ibrahim Traore, Pan Africanism, Thomas Sankara

Dependence on foreign aid, political instability, chronic poverty, and the effects of climate change are among the obstacles preventing Burkina Faso from achieving its longed-for food sovereignty. Currently, about 80% of the population of the Sahelian nation is involved in agricultural activity, which accounts for a third of the GDP. Even so, the country still imports more than 200,000 tons of rice per year. In response to this challenge, President Ibrahim Traoré’s government launched the so-called Agricultural Offensive in 2023, which has been revolutionizing the rural environment and serving as a model for the continent.

In The Year Of The Cooperative, Rural Grocers Find Power In Partnership

October 14, 2025 Jill Dutton, The Packer. Create! Cooperatives, Food and Agriculture, Food Sovereignty, Grocery Stores, Local Economy

As 2025 marks the United Nations’ International Year of Cooperatives, communities across the U.S. are spotlighting how cooperative models can sustain local economies and strengthen food systems. That mission was front and center during a recent Rural Grocery Initiative webinar that unveiled findings from a two-year project on local sourcing in rural grocery stores. Led by Rial Carver, program director for RGI at Kansas State University, the project was designed to identify innovative ways to help small-town grocers connect with local producers — and, in doing so, keep grocery access alive in communities often bypassed by large retail chains. “Rural grocery stores are anchor institutions,” Carver says in an RGI webinar. “Without them, communities lose out on economic, health and cultural benefits.”

Rural Europe Takes Action: Food System Lessons From Marburg

September 17, 2025 ARC2020 Staff, Resilience. Create! Europe, Food Security, Food Sovereignty, Local Economy

Summer’s flowers hang dried in neat bunches around the workshop room of the Ecological Folk High School in Grzybów, as changemakers from France, Germany and Poland gather in the early days of winter 2024. What can rural communities do in the face of the ecological, social and economic crises society faces today, and what role can cross-border exchange between local actors play? These questions marked the coming together of what we have come to call the rural Weimar triangle, a grassroots counterpart – and perhaps challenge to – the high-level diplomatic agreement between the governments of these three countries. Villages, towns and cities, after all, have a lot to offer in response to today’s global challenges.

Project In Venezuela Wants To Build Food Sovereignty

April 4, 2025 Lorenzo Santiago, Orinoco Tribune. Create! Brazil, Food Sovereignty, Landless Workers, Venezuela

A project to guarantee Venezuela’s food sovereignty: This is how the Patria Grande del Sur program is being treated by the Venezuelan government and the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST, in Portuguese). The initiative was launched two weeks ago and will use 180,000 hectares for food production based on agroecology. Rosana Fernandes has been coordinating the MST brigade in Venezuela for two months. The movement has been active in the country for 20 years and is now the central organization leading the project in southern Venezuela. She says it intends to occupy the territory of Vergareña and expand the food production carried out by small families in the region.

Reviving Native Food Sovereignty

March 1, 2025 Dahr Jamail, Resilience. Create! Alaska, Food and Agriculture, Food Sovereignty, Indigenous foods

The Tongass is one of the most ecologically important places on Earth, and plays a critical role in the climate crisis by sequestering one billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. The towering old growth forests of the Tongass store the carbon equivalent of six million cars a year, while producing a quarter of all the salmon in the Pacific Northwest. This intact and abundant rainforest are the homelands of the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian Peoples, who care for, steward, and honor the lands and waters that sustain all Southeast Alaskans. Communities in this region practice a way-of-life that is rapidly disappearing across the globe.

Elon Musk And DOGE Slash Funding For Major Black KC Neighborhood Councils

February 27, 2025 Ryan S., Black Agenda Report. Educate! Black Farmers, DEI, DOGE, Elon Musk, Food Sovereignty, Kansas City, Missouri

At exactly 7:17 p.m. on Valentine’s Day, Ivanhoe Neighborhood Council Executive Director Alana Henry received a terse notice from the USDA: the agency was canceling its three-year Farmer’s Market Promotion Program (FMPP) award to Ivanhoe Neighborhood Council. The cut was swift, shocking, and, for those who’ve been paying attention, all too predictable. The Ivanhoe Neighborhood Council (located in one of Kansas City’s historically Black neighborhoods) had already launched a visionary plan to boost food sovereignty and economic power in the community. Their programs offered training for local growers—many of them Black, brown, and small-scale—so they could sell fresh, affordable produce at neighborhood farmers markets.

For Sicanjgu, Food Sovereignty Means Eating Climate-Friendly

January 18, 2025 Grace Hussain, Resilience. Create! climate crisis, Food Sovereignty, Indigenous Rights, Lakota

On a Wednesday summer evening on the Rosebud Reservation, members of the Siċaŋġu Nation arrange 12 tables to form a U around the parking lot of a South Dakota Boys & Girls Club. The tables at the Siċaŋġu Harvest Market are laden with homemade foods for sale—tortillas, cooked beans, pickles, and fresh-squeezed lemonade. The market is one of many ways the nonprofit increases access to traditional and healthful foods that also happen to come with a low climate impact. The Lakota, of which Siċaŋġu is one of seven nations, were traditionally hunters and gatherers, but today, the Siċaŋġu Co nonprofit is building on both new and old traditions to fulfill its mission.

Agricultural Design Studio Working To Build A Food-Sovereign Detroit

November 14, 2024 Samya Overall, Next City. Create! Agriculture, Detroit, Food Security, Food Sovereignty, Urban Farming

Driving down Monterey Street on Detroit’s westside, there are more abandoned and vacant houses than occupied ones. Sidewalks are overgrown with grass, and stretches of land as long as football fields separate the homes that remain. About midway down the block, between Wildemere and Lawton streets, is Fennigan’s Farms. You can’t miss it from the tall towers of bright yellow sunflowers waving in the wind. As you walk up, there’s a table with tomatoes and a sign that reads “Free Produce.” Amanda Brezzell is the co-founder and creative director at Fennigan’s Farms. Brezzell says the farm and design firm’s mission is to be a resource to the community, helping Detroiters achieve food sovereignty by providing fresh, accessible food, some at no cost.

Health Activists Picket Against High Cost Of Nutritious Food

October 20, 2024 Peoples Health Dispatch, People's Dispatch. Resist! Food Sovereignty, Health Care, Hunger, Inflation, Malnutrition, People's Health Movement, South Africa, World Food Day

On World Food Day, October 16, the People’s Health Movement (PHM) South Africa organized a picket in front of the National Parliament to protest the high cost of healthy and nutritious food in the country. While the South African Constitution guarantees the right to food, PHM South Africa argued that only the wealthy can afford healthy meals today. “The soaring prices of nutritious food have placed it beyond the reach of millions, forcing many to resort to cheaper, ultra-processed foods,” they said. Ultra-processed foods, which have been linked to a long list of non-communicable diseases, including cancer and diabetes, make this a pressing social justice issue, the picket organizers noted.

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