The Food Sovereignty Prize

Implications for Discourse and Practice

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ID5375952
AutoresMegan A Carney (0000-0001-9540-7118, University of California, Santa Barbara, autor correspondente), Megan Carney
Ano2011
Volume19
Fascículo3
Páginas169-180
Data de publicação2011-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoFood and Foodways (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0740-9710 • E-ISSN: 1542-3484
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/07409710.2011.599767
OpenAlexW2074920122
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas18

The rhetoric of "food security" has dominated mainstream approaches to global food insecurity while alternative approaches have received less attention. For decades, the World Food Prize has honored work in the tradition of "food security." More recently, the Food Sovereignty Prize has brought attention to alternative approaches, namely the "food sovereignty" approach. This article explores how the inaugural awarding of the Food Sovereignty Prize represents an attempt to bring broader visibility to and to gain recognition of these approaches by policymakers. Notes 1. The 2nd Food Sovereignty Prize was awarded to Family Farm Defenders at the CFSC "Food, Culture, and Justice" Annual Conference in New Orleans in October 2010. 2. Ejeta received this prize based on his work developing a hybrid variety of sorghum for sub-Saharan Africa. 3. As of 2009, the monetary award for the World Food Prize was $250,000 US. 4. In their 1996 declaration for food sovereignty, Via Campesina explained that food sovereignty was a necessary precondition to genuine food security

Agriculture · Environmental ethics · Food security · Food sovereignty · Food systems · Mainstream · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Sovereignty · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · History · Law · Organic Food and Agriculture · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability