TO CREATE FOOD SOVEREIGNTY WE NEED TO:

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Level incomes nationally.

 

Increase the minimum wage.

 

Increase access to SNAP benefits. 

 

Increase access to healthy food.

 

Inspire healthy food consumption through education - ie cooking classes using local food to make global food, and freshly cooked, packaged, global meals at affordable prices. 

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Culture is and needs to be part of food systems. Many definitions of food sovereignty assert a right to “culturally appropriate” food which raises the question, who decides what is culturally appropriate? 

 

Value food labor and skills by economically and socially supporting food production labor.

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Create opportunities to learn about and make meaning of:

food origins - particularly food emerging from culture, 

farms, and food production jobs

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Create financially sustainable food production jobs.

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Educate for skilled labor and inspire people to work in food production. 

 

Understand what and when food is coming off of small farm fields and what it takes to deliver it by collecting data over many years.

 

Understand how much imperfect food comes off of farms and what to do with it.

 

Remove the chokehold a few large, vertically integrated corporations have on our “efficient” food system. A few corporations have maximized their profit through hyper-efficient models which are highly vulnerable to crisis and disruption. 

 

Food security comes from inefficiencies and surplus. Processing and packaging hyper-efficiency results in less free or inexpensive food for the food insecure. However, these inefficiencies cannot cost the farmer or the food insecure.

 

Create a very diversified, local, and adaptable food system model that can weather disruption.

 

Create “last mile” direct to consumer distribution systems to deliver food to food insecure in rural areas. 

 

Inspire young people to volunteer at Food Banks and food shelves so they can be open for more hours, particularly in rural areas.