The IV “Zero Hunger” Summit was not the first time that ORU Fogar debated whether the ideal concept was Food Security or Food Sovereignty. At the Turin Local Economic Development Forum in 2015 there was already a great debate on the subject. Should the ORU Food Safety Côre Group change its name? On that occasion the name “Security” was kept. In 2020, with a very important Latin American presence, the group was renamed the Côre Group of Food Sovereignty. Never as in this Temuco Summit (Chile), however, the commitment in favor of sovereignty had been so clear.
The IV Summit becomes a clamor for rural development
The Summit of Regions held in Temuco, Araucanía (Chile), was conceived as a space in which the conclusions of the Summit on Food Systems convened by the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, on September 2, 2021.
On the battlefront against malnutrition and anemia
Gabriel Ferrero, president of the World Food Committee (CSA), which is considered the world parliament of the FAO, made a statement at the IV Summit of Regions on Food Security and Sovereignty in Temuco that places very well where we are on this issue...
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Food sovereignty or food security?
In general, food sovereignty refers to the ability of a State to define and implement its own agricultural and food policy in the interests of its people, without compromising the ability of other states to access their own food sovereignty. The war in Ukraine, for example, has damaging consequences for World cereal production from other countries. Similarly, over the past three years, COVID 19 has contributed to the deepening of the global economic recession, particularly in agricultural and food production.
