Tags: YouTube,"NEW" HS+ English, US History, and Art,"Pre Converted" HS+ English and Contemporary World Problems and Environmental Science,"Pre Converted" HS+ English and Life Science,"Pre Converted" HS+ English and Occupational Education,"Pre Converted" HS+ English and Portfolio,"Pre Converted" HS+ English, Health, and Fitness,"Pre Converted" HS+ English, US History, and Art,HS+ Eng\CWP - Test Course,"NEW" HS+ English and Life Science,"NEW" HS+ English and Occupational Education,"NEW" HS+ English and Portfolio,"NEW" HS+ English, Health, and Fitness Description: The politics and culture of food are often expressed in terms of food security and food sovereignty. These two terms are often used interchangeably, even though they mean different things. Erika Allen of Chicago's Grower Power explains that food security considers whether a person knows where his or her next meal is coming from, while food sovereignty defends a community's right to decide how they're fed.
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"Food security"
Erika Allen
Growing Power
Chicago, Ill.
Erika Allen is Chicago and National Projects Director for Growing Power and is headquartered in Chicago, IL. As the daughter of Will Allen, she has a small farm agricultural background and experience. She spent her formative years involved in all aspects of farm management from transplanting seedlings to managing farm stands and farmer's markets.
"Food Sovereignty"
Xuyen Pham
East New Orleans, LA
Currently, Ms. Xuyen takes care of her farm along with her husband, and wishes to continue providing fresh produce for her family, community, and markets throughout New Orleans.
Food Sovereignty -- A community's right to decide how they're fed. The term was coined in 1993 by a gathering of farm workers and small stake food producers from around the world. Their first meeting in Mons, Belgium led to the formation of La Via Campesina ("The Peasants' Way"), which protects the rights of cultures to defend their control over local and regional food systems.
-LOCAL: The New Face of Food and Farming in America, by Douglas Gayeton
Food Sovereignty = livelihood + self-determination
The ability of community members to control food access (both effluent and influent) independent of outside food sources (such as supermarkets). It's community elders grow traditional fruits and vegetables and fisher folk go shrimping, fishing, and crabbing to sell at local stores, the local Saturday farmer's market, and most importantly, to feed their families and community members.
-Xuyen Pham, MQVN in East New Orleans, LA
http://www.veggifarmcoop.com/
http://www.mqvncdc.org/
Food Security -- "Food security has now been reinterpreted in some places as community food security, as access to fresh, healthy and affordable food not just on an individual level, but within the entire community. The emphasis is on access, but people can have access to food without being in control of those food sources."
-Professor Kristin Reynolds New School for Public Engagement
http://www.newschool.edu/
Food Justice -- "Food is a basic right for all people."
-Blue Peetz, GRuB
http://goodgrub.org/
Food Desert -- An area where residents lack access to affordable fruits and vegetables, whole grains, low fat milk, legumes and other food that constitute a healthy diet. Grocery stores are either inaccessible to these shoppers (due to high prices and/or inadequate public transit.)As a result, residents buy food and drinks from gas stations, fast food restaurants and corner stores which primarily sell processed food. This often leaves these individuals at risk for obesity diabetes, and chronic illness. It's a food drought with less food or no food and lots of hungry people.
- Michelle Lee, Growing Power in Chicago, IL
http://growingpower.org/in_the_news.htm
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