Concerned about the food crisis and ready to take action? Download this education-to-action curriculum for consumers, faith & anti-hunger groups, farmers & everyone in between by Grassroots International and the National Family Farm Coalition.
“Food for Thought and Action: A Food Sovereignty Curriculum is a remarkably useful popular education tool. It offers a practical way to strengthen a growing food sovereignty movement that includes consumers, farmers, environmentalists and faith communities. Building from the experiences of literally millions of grassroots activists world-wide, Food for Thought and Action challenges us to fix our broken food system.”
– Michael Pollan, Author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and The Botany of Desire
It’s been said that “you are what you eat.” In the face of a global food crisis, it’s clear that we’ve been forced to swallow far more than what’s on our plates. Our global food system is terribly broken, with nearly a billion hungry people around the world. Millions more are forced from failed farms as industrial agriculture privatizes and despoils our water, soil and biodiversity. Policies such as the U.S. Farm Bill and the North American Free Trade Agreement, have, in large part, brought us to this place.
How can we respond to such a massive and urgent problem? The answer, according to smallfarmers, farmworkers, fishers, consumers, environmentalists and indigenous peoples throughout the world, is food sovereignty. And to generate an informed and vibrant movement for food sovereignty, we must first understand how the food system works, its failures, and the hopeful alternatives that are blossoming throughout the world. Food for Thought and Action: A Food Sovereignty Curriculum does just that.
The curriculum is divided into four modules with emphasis on the following groups:
- consumers
- faith and anti-hunger groups
- environmentalists
- farmers
This collection of education-for-action exercises and factsheets has been developed by Grassroots International and the National Family Farm Coalition to help build the food sovereignty movement in the United States.
This curriculum emphasizes informed activism. Our greatest hope is that these teaching tools help swell a global movement which advocates for a radically transformed food system – where family farmers enjoy the right to feed their families, sell in local markets, and care for the environment, where consumers have access to healthy, reasonably-priced, local foods.
The curriculum is free. We encourage you to spread the word about this curriculum to others who are concerned about the food crisis and are ready to take action.
Updated 8/2014
