Why the Food Movement is Unstoppable

http://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/why-the-food-movement-is-unstoppable/
Date Written:  2016-09-20
Publisher:  Independent Science News
Year Published:  2016
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX20036

Even today, in more than a few countries, food is the organising principle behind the main challengers of existing power structures. In El Salvador, the National Coordinator of its Organic Agriculture Movement is Miguel Ramirez who recently explained: We say that every square meter of land that is worked with agro-ecology is a liberated square meter. We see it as a tool to transform farmers’ social and economic conditions. We see it as a tool of liberation from the unsustainable capitalist agricultural model that oppresses farmers.