People’s Right To Feed and To Establish Their Food Sovereignty
Proposition from the APM network in the food sovereignty forum in La Habana (2001)
Pierre Vuarin and international APM network
28 octobre 2001
This text was written by Pierre Vuarin and validated by the leaders of the APM worldwide network. It goes over the content of the various proposals booklets developed within this network in perspective of the Lille gathering of citizens. It puts forward several major categories of proposals:
GIVING CONCRETE EXPRESSION TO THE RIGHT TO FEED, AND TO NUTRITIONAL AND ALIMENTARY WELL-BEING
ESTABLISHING PUBLIC POLICIES FOR FOOD SAFETY AND ALIMENTARY WELL-BEING
ACCESS TO PRODUCTION ASSETS, TO NATURAL RESOURCES AND TO THEIR MANAGEMENT
CONSTRUCTION OF SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS
REFUSAL OF PATENTING LIVING THINGS
A WORLD WITHOUT AGRICULTURAL GMO’S
REGULATING TRADE AT INTERNATIONAL LEVEL FOR THE SAKE OF PEOPLE’S SOVEREIGNTY AND FOOD SAFETY