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Transforming our food system: the movement for food sovereignty

Transforming our food system: the movement for food sovereignty. “The prices are affecting my family, we are having problems, we cannot afford proper clothes to wear.” Gudu, wage labourer, Haryana, northern India. 3 companies control 90% of the international grain trade.

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Transforming our food system: the movement for food sovereignty

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  1. Transforming our food system: the movement for food sovereignty

  2. “The prices are affecting my family, we are having problems, we cannot afford proper clothes to wear.” Gudu, wage labourer, Haryana, northern India

  3. 3 companies control 90% of the international grain trade. • Land grabs are estimated to have affected an area the size • of western Europe. • Barclays has made up to £0.5bn from speculating on food • prices in the last two years.

  4. “I had to sell everything I had just to be able to feed myself and my four children. My last remaining cow was so wasted from drought and lack of food, I had to sell it for a mere 300 shillings (£2.50).” Consolata M Kiswili, Farmer, Makueni district, Kenya

  5. www.wdm.org.uk/food www.foodsovereigntynow.org.uk

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