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How can vulnerable communities work to improve local Food Security and approach Food Sovereignty?

For small-scale food producers across the Global South, conventional approaches to “food security” have contributed to a series of livelihood and food crises, as control over food systems has come to be increasingly concentrated in the hands of profit-focused transnational corporations. In response, peasant and farmer groups have allied within and across national borders to form movements that articulate a vision of sustainable, equitable, and culturally appropriate agro-food systems.

Four Stories About Food is about creating a research network for small-scale producers to learn from each other, for researchers to learn from small-scale producers, and for the public to access information about Food Security issues around the world. This network -- which gets fully underway in 2019 -- will consist in the short-term of several components: an international Food Security workshop, a documentary film, ongoing community-engaged scholarly research, and public education activities.