Food sovereignty issue

Niébé in Nigeria
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Food sovereignty is the concept that non-industrial farmers have developed to defend their rights.

 

The rights to food and to decent life pass by recognizing and protecting the right of access to land, seeds, water, suitable credits, but also the sharing of agricultural knowledge and the equitable transfer of technology well adapted.

 

Recent food crisis have highlighted the neglect of political will to develop agriculture competent to feed people of today and tomorrow.