Food Sovereignty: An Alternative Way to Food Security in Developing Countries.
Keywords:
food security, food sovereignty, food regime, MDG, La ViaCampesinaAbstract
The year 2015 marks the end of the monitoring period for the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets. For the developing regions as a whole, the share of undernourished people in the totalpopulation has decreased from 23.3 percent in 1990–92 to 12.9 per cent. Economic growth is a key success factor for reducing undernourishment, but it has to be inclusive and provide opportunities for improving the livelihoods of the poor. Enhancing the productivity and incomes of smallholder family farmers is key to progress.But recent literature shows that the dominant model of development fails to attain the interest of small and medium population and therefore the food security of the developing countries like India is not possible due to various reasons.Natural and human-induced disasters or political instability has resulted in protracted crises with increased vulnerability and food insecurity of large parts of the population.Food Sovereignty concepts actually focuses on local and indigenous production system to attain real food security of the nations.
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