Speakers:
Elias Araujo, Landless Workers’ Movement, Brazil (MST, Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra);
Samuel Nderitu, Grow BioIntensive Agricultural Centre of Kenya
Tezozomoc, South Central Farmers, US
Juan Manuel “Manolo” Moran Madrid, Campesino a Campesino Movement, Mexico
Malik Yakini, Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (Moderator)
Maria Aguiar, Grassroots International (Moderator & Interpreter)
Representatives of the former Black Panther Party
Join global and local leaders of the food sovereignty movement to hear how communities around the world are reclaiming their food systems. The ceremony will honor grassroots leaders of the movement from Brazil, Kenya, Mexico and Los Angeles. Additionally, former members of the Black Panther Party will address the roots of the food justice movement in the US.
Fair
The lively Food Sovereignty Fair invites you to explore the meaning of Food Justice & Food Sovereignty and meet organizations working for food system equity. The Fair includes:
Discussion circles with the Food Sovereignty Prize honorees
2011 Food Sovereignty Prize Winner:
The Landless Workers Movement (MST) of Brazil has been a leader in social action for agrarian reform and food sovereignty for over 25 years, addressing the extreme disparities in land access in Brazil by organizing over 350,000 landless rural families to resettle and farm formerly idle land.
Honorable Mentions:
Movimiento Campesino a Campesino (Farmer to Farmer Movement) helps farming families in Central America and beyond improve their livelihoods while conserving natural resources.
South Central Farmers advocate the restoration of traditional, local, and organic foods and operate a worker/farmer owned co-op in California’s central valley that provides affordable food to low-income families in LA.
Grow BioIntensive Agricultural Centre of Kenya trains small-scale farmers, widows, people living with HIV/AIDS, orphans, and women in agroecological farming to build food systems rooted in self-determination, local knowledge, and ecological sustainability.
Food Sovereignty Prize
The 3rd Annual Food Sovereignty Prize will be awarded to Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST, Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra) at the 2011 Food Sovereignty Prize Ceremony on Sunday, November 6. Honorable Mentions will be awarded to Campesino a Campesino Movement (Mexico); South Central Farmers (US); and Grow Biointensive Agricultural Center of Kenya.
Each year, the International Links Committee of the Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC) selects a prize winner who
The 2011 Food Sovereignty Prize is generously supported by the Small Planet Fund and the Lawson Valentine Foundation.
Ceremony
Speakers:
Elias Araujo, Landless Workers’ Movement, Brazil (MST, Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra);
Samuel Nderitu, Grow BioIntensive Agricultural Centre of Kenya
Tezozomoc, South Central Farmers, US
Juan Manuel “Manolo” Moran Madrid, Campesino a Campesino Movement, Mexico
Malik Yakini, Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (Moderator)
Maria Aguiar, Grassroots International (Moderator & Interpreter)
Representatives of the former Black Panther Party
Join global and local leaders of the food sovereignty movement to hear how communities around the world are reclaiming their food systems. The ceremony will honor grassroots leaders of the movement from Brazil, Kenya, Mexico and Los Angeles. Additionally, former members of the Black Panther Party will address the roots of the food justice movement in the US.
Fair
The lively Food Sovereignty Fair invites you to explore the meaning of Food Justice & Food Sovereignty and meet organizations working for food system equity. The Fair includes:
Alameda Point Collaborative
California Food and Justice Coalition
Community Alliance with Family Farmers
Community Food Security Coalition
Food Chain Workers’ Alliance
Family Farm Defenders
Food First
Friends of the Movimento do Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST)
People’s Grocery
Pesticide Action Network North America
Pesticide Watch
Planting Justice
Urban Sprouts
US Food Sovereignty Alliance
Honorees
2011 Food Sovereignty Prize Winner:
The Landless Workers Movement (MST) of Brazil has been a leader in social action for agrarian reform and food sovereignty for over 25 years, addressing the extreme disparities in land access in Brazil by organizing over 350,000 landless rural families to resettle and farm formerly idle land.
Honorable Mentions:
Movimiento Campesino a Campesino (Farmer to Farmer Movement) helps farming families in Central America and beyond improve their livelihoods while conserving natural resources.
South Central Farmers advocate the restoration of traditional, local, and organic foods and operate a worker/farmer owned co-op in California’s central valley that provides affordable food to low-income families in LA.
Grow BioIntensive Agricultural Centre of Kenya trains small-scale farmers, widows, people living with HIV/AIDS, orphans, and women in agroecological farming to build food systems rooted in self-determination, local knowledge, and ecological sustainability.
Learn More
Click here to listen to an interview by Susan Youmans of What’s for Dinner? with Maria Aguiar about the Food Sovereignty Prize.
Learn more about the Food Sovereignty Prize and past recipients.