Food sovereignty is an issue we will likely hear a lot about in coming years. Basically, it is the right a community has to determine where its food comes from. Outbreaks of food-borne illness receive great attention, but concerns about our food system are growing even when it is ‘working.’ We need to take a hard look at the system that stocks our grocery store shelves with products full of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and preservatives – and see if we can come up with a better way to feed a nation.

Food Activist Censored By BP’s Christiane Amanpour Show — by NormanB

Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet.

Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet.

Breastfeeding may not be a panacea to maternal and infant health disparities but it is a proven way to improve health outcomes. But to make it real, we have to holistically support new mothers and their babies in breastfeeding.

Written by jaz for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet.

Read how Care International’s “business approach” is assisting farmers in Zambia.

Cross posted from Nourishing the Planet.

Instead of crops, families dealing with HIV/AIDS are raising chickens. Cross posted from Nourishing the Planet.

Today, farmers and breeders alike have a greater respect for Mozambique’s indigenous seed varieties. Cross posted from Nourishing the Planet.