Charter of the North African Network for Food Sovereignty
NOVANEWS
Hamza Hamouchen
Various
Activists from anti-capitalist militant organizations in North Africa met in Tunis on 4th and 5th July 2017 to set up the North African Network for Food Sovereignty. The network is a unifying structure for struggles in the region and will be involved in local, continental and international mobilisation.
The network has adopted the following Charter:
Food sovereignty is the human right of peoples as individuals and communities to define their own food systems. It means, working with nature and protecting resources to produce sufficient, healthy and culturally appropriate food by:
giving priority to local production and staple food,
putting in place popular agrarian reforms,
guaranteeing free access to see...