Introduction
LASC is carrying out a programme of development education activities for the period 2009-2012 focusing on the theme of food sovereignty in Latin America and its links to Ireland.
Increasing food production in Latin America has not provided food security for its inhabitants. The region has been badly hit by the global food crisis which began in 2006, leading to increased poverty, malnutrition and suffering. Food sovereignty is a term coined by interest groups in the Global South, and goes beyond the idea of food security to take a holistic, sustainable and culturally appropriate approach not just to agriculture but to the world and the socio-economic relations that exist in it.
The following document will deal with the Food Crisis, with its relationship to our economic model and the need to bring about comprehensive social alternatives to make food sovereignty a reality.
