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Groups Defending Human Rights to Food and Water Receive Food Sovereignty Prize
By Anastasia Pantsios, for EcoWatch | September 10, 2014 9:09 am The US Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA), a network of organizations working to assert food and water as basic human rights and advocate...
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U.S. Farmworkers and Palestinian Farmers share 2014 Food Sovereignty Prize
Honorees Represent Communities Defending Their Human Rights to Food in the Face of Policies of Land and Water Grabbing, Migration, and Militarization. For La Via Campesina, Thursday, 11 September 2014...
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Winners of the Food Sovereignty Prize
September 10, 2014 by Other Worlds Agricultural Missions, as one of the founding members of the US Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA), is excited to forward the announcement of this year´s co-winners...
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Groups Lauded for Work Towards Communities’ Rights to a Just Food System
Sixth Food Sovereignty Prize honors Union of Agricultural Work Committees in Palestine and Bellingham, Washington-based Community to Community Development Published on Friday, September 12, 2014 by...
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Recognizing Food Sovereignty
September 23, 2014 by Dr. M. Jahi Chappell Community to Community Development, one of the co-winners of the 2014 Food Sovereignty Prize. IATP, as a member of the U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance, is...
View ArticleAlternative to World Food Prize to be awarded to two organizations
Sharyn Jackson, Des Moines Register October 15, 2014 The Food Sovereignty Prize will go tonight to two organizations combating hunger in their communities. It’s billed as an alternative to what critics...
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The Food Sovereignty Prize 2014: A Focus on People & Agroecology
Bill Ayres, Huffington Post October 14, 2014 Credit: UAWC The idea of “food sovereignty” emerges from and energizes an international movement, growing from the bottom up. Its members believe that all...
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Food Day 2014: Food Justice = Worker Justice!
Joann Lo, Huffington Post October 22, 2014 Five years ago, the Food Chain Workers Alliance was founded as a national coalition of unions, workers centers, and non-profit organizations to work...
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The Other World Food Day Prize
Alison Meares Cohen | EcoWatch October 15, 2014 Norman Borlaug, often referred to as the father of the Green Revolution, called for a World Food Prize to be established just after he was awarded the...
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A Tree Grows in Gaza
By Siena Chrisman on December 5, 2014 A family in the South Hebron Hills prepares to plant new trees. Courtesy Grassroots International (via Flickr). An olive branch is a universal symbol of peace,...
View ArticleFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Black and Afro-Indigenous Farmers Share 2015 Food...
Des Moines, Iowa, United States – September 1, 2015 In this moment when it is vital to assert that Black lives matter, the U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance honors Black and Afro-Indigenous farmers,...
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Black and Afro-Indigenous Farmers Share 2015 Food Sovereignty Prize
In this moment when it is vital to assert that Black lives matter, the U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance honors Black and Afro-Indigenous farmers, fishermen and stewards of ancestral lands and water. We...
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Fighting Racism From the USDA, Black Farmers Gain Power Through Co-ops
By Andrianna Natsoulas and Beverly Bell, Truthout The 2015 US Food Sovereignty Prize will be awarded on October 14 in Des Moines, Iowa. This year, one of the two winners is the Federation of Southern...
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Black Farmers’ Lives Matter: The significant contributions of Black Farmers...
By Heather Gray The 2015 Food Sovereignty Prize will be shared by the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund (Federation) and the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras. The prize...
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Black Farmers’ Lives Matter: Defending African-American Land and Agriculture...
DAILY KOS By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds The 2015 US Food Sovereignty Prize goes to two organizations that are demonstrating just how much Black lives matter, as they defend their ancestral lands for...
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Defending Afro-Indigenous Land: Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras Wins...
Garifuna youth brigade members remove a fence post in the area planted by narco invaders of the land prior to the 2012 land recovery. Photo courtesy of Steve Pavey. By Beverly Bell On 06 October, 2015...
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Alfredo’s Story: Human Rights Defender Despite Imprisonment
By Shannon Duncan Bodwell October 6th, 2015 “In the end we succeeded. But it cost us six years in jail, and five of my colleagues were assassinated. However we are still here, working, and pushing...
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A Different Way to Fight Hunger: Agroecology and the Food Sovereignty Prize
By Bill Ayres WhyHunger Co-founder and Ambassador There is a certain mindset which says that science and technology have all the answers, swooping in from above to solve every agricultural problem that...
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A Tale of Two Food Prizes
By Eric Holt-Giménez What’s in a prize? The politics of distribution versus growth. On October 14, in Des Moines, Iowa, the Food Sovereignty Prize will be awarded to the Federation of Southern...
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Grassroots Struggle for Food Sovereignty and the Liberation of Black Cultures
by Alison Meares Cohen Two organizations have been selected to receive the 7th annual Food Sovereignty Prize this year in an event that will take place on Wednesday, Oct. 14, in Des Moines, Iowa. On...
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