“The concept of food sovereignty, in the context of intensifying globalization is fast gaining adherence not only from social movements, which first raised the call but from various actors, both governmental and non-governmental. Food sovereignty seeks and struggles for the recognition and enforcement of the rights of peoples and countries to freely decide the agriculture and food policies needed to combat hunger and poverty. It overhauls the paradigm of global free-market economics that sees the markets as the sole determinants of growth and development and thus sees agriculture merely as producing goods for the export market. In place of this, the concept of food sovereignty proposes a vision of agriculture and economy that meets the goals of equity, food sovereignty, food security, sustainability and people’s empowerment.” In this well written paper one can expect to get a clear understanding of this issue of Food Sovereignty.

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