The World Food Prize is meant to honor “individuals who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world” and it has been called the “Nobel Prize for Food and Agriculture.”
The domestic Food Sovereignty Prize was awarded this year to Black Mesa Water Coalition, which promotes ancestral cuisine and farming methods in Navajo and Hopi communities.
And the international prize went to Organización Boricuá de Agricultura Ecológica de Puerto Rico, which works to strengthen local and environmentally-sound food production on the island.
Julianna Fischer, a coordinator for the U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance, a network of food justice groups across the country that oversees and awards the prize, explained, “We have a food system right now that doesn’t honor the hands that feed us and doesn’t provide dignity to a lot of the food workers along the food chain.” She continued, “We can feed the world in a few different ways, but we believe that we need to feed the world through food sovereignty, local control, local decision making, and local access, rather than by large corporations that are really just trying to make money off of our ability to survive and thrive.”
https://newfoodeconomy.org/food-sovereignty-prize-2018/
The domestic Food Sovereignty Prize was awarded this year to Black Mesa Water Coalition, which promotes ancestral cuisine and farming methods in Navajo and Hopi communities.
And the international prize went to Organización Boricuá de Agricultura Ecológica de Puerto Rico, which works to strengthen local and environmentally-sound food production on the island.
Julianna Fischer, a coordinator for the U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance, a network of food justice groups across the country that oversees and awards the prize, explained, “We have a food system right now that doesn’t honor the hands that feed us and doesn’t provide dignity to a lot of the food workers along the food chain.” She continued, “We can feed the world in a few different ways, but we believe that we need to feed the world through food sovereignty, local control, local decision making, and local access, rather than by large corporations that are really just trying to make money off of our ability to survive and thrive.”
https://newfoodeconomy.org/food-sovereignty-prize-2018/
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