Elder Waters

Asheville High School

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Watch a Documentary about Food Sovereignty

I will watch 1 documentary(ies) about food sovereignty: the right of local peoples to control their own food systems including markets, ecological resources, food cultures and production methods.

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Food Watch a Documentary about Food Sovereignty

How does food sovereignty address the complex agrarian transition to modern food systems?

Elder Waters 4/02/2020 11:03 AM

Currently many farms in the US are owned by huge companies who own and maintain the means by which farmers produce food. Seeds rarely come from farmers and instead come from big companies making heirloom varieties of plants and farmer independence a thing of the past. Farmers can no longer fix their own tractors and now rely on big companies to do so. Lack of food soveinity is one of the core problems with our agrarian system and is responsible for much of its enviromental impact.

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