5.6 Reading: Connecting land and food sovereignty
- How are land
and food politics linked?
In land politics, the leaders at
every level determines who get right to how many portion of land, at what time
and how long. This is directly linked
with food system in production, trading and consumption. Land has forever been
an assets acquired through politics and war in the ancient time. Territorial fighting
in the ancient time gives a fraction of fighter large amount of land. This has
continued until those fractions has been turned into political fractions whose
rule the world in countries, regions and continents.
The political power has great
influence over the use of land and it resources over the people they rule. The politics
of land is inflicting some kind of human right against the “peoples” people
working for the land according to Saturnino M.
Borras Jr.a, Jennifer C. Francobc & Sofía Monsalve Suárez d 2015. In an article titled “Political Ecology of
the World Food System” the author referred to rich countries who acquired large
scale land from poor countries as “Land grabbers”. This is evident in Africa
where large thousand hectares of land are taken away from poorer communities’
wholes livelihood depend pure on farming by the government in the name of
development for palm oil plantation.
In sierra Leone
for minute example, each time we have a new government, hundreds of hectares of
land are shared amongst members of the ruling party as donation to ministers
and party stakeholders. The non-political participants are them left out. The political
parties therefore have the control over, what should be done in state lands and
communities lands. This is limiting the growth of land sovereignty and
affecting food sovereignty.
- What is food
sovereignty?
According to web
search Wikipedia
Food
sovereignty is a food system in which the people who produce, distribute, and
consume food also control the mechanisms and policies of food production and
distribution. This stands in contrast to…
- Land sovereignty. Goole search described Land sovereignty as the the right of working peoples to
have effective access to, use of, and control over land and the benefits
of its use and occupation, where land is understood as resource,
territory, and landscape.
- Why is land
reform for food sovereignty important?
- What are the
risks of land reform as a policy framework and political platform?
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