Maverick Citizen: Transitional Compass 4: Climate and food inequality: The South African Food Sovereignty Campaign response By Vishwas Satgar and Jane Cherry
While many of these indiscriminately affect entire communities or regions, the consequences are not distributed uniformly in communities. Individual and social factors such as gender, age, education, ethnicity, geography and language lead to differential vulnerability and capacity to adapt to the effects of climate change.are typically poor people who live in the least developed countries that are prone to more than one type of weather disaster, i.e.
by this climate/food shock as staple food prices increased by 25% between September 2015 and September 2016, while maize alone increased by 32% year on year.In response to the multiple crises facing societies, including climate and food inequality, there has been a surge in alternatives. The food sovereignty response in South Africa has found variegated roots since La Via Campesina’s championing of this idea. An agrarian sector, food justice, climate justice, and solidarity economy actors have all championed a food sovereignty thrust. This is evident in the
Developing political economy critiques of the corporate-controlled food system as a whole and at the level of production, consumption, finance and ecology while also being alive to the need to imagine and work with systemic alternatives that could build the logic of food sovereignty;
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