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Food Voices collects the insights and wisdom of the activists who are fighting for a more just and sustainable food system. An invaluable work. --Raj Patel, author of the New York Times bestseller, Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System Food Sovereignty is the right of people to determine their own food and agriculture systems. This worldwide movement promotes community-based agriculture and fishing, local control over food policies, protection of biodiversity and native seeds, land reform, and access to the sea. Food sovereignty takes different forms, and is described in many ways. Organic farmers may call it sustainable agriculture; community supported fisheries may call it food justice; urban farmers may call it food security. Food Sovereignty is a system that combines all these approaches, in the process offering an alternative to the industrial food system that is destroying local communities all over the planet. Food Voices: Stories From the People Who Feed Us highlights the farmers and fishermen who are tirelessly working to strengthen and enhance the global movement towards food sovereignty. From the dairy farmers of Wisconsin, to the salmon trollers of Alaska, the clam collectors of Ecuador, the urban farmers of New York State, and the fishermen of Haiti, Food Voices highlights the men and women who are fighting with their sweat and hands, trying to create--or actually re-create--a food system that values quality over quantity, and communities and the environment over the corporate bottom-line. Andrianna Natsoulas has implemented and created programs at organizations including Greenpeace, Public Citizen and the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance. She has also coordinated with the global food sovereignty movements and has served on national and international boards and steering committees to protect fishing rights, fight trade agreements and build alliances. She is currently Executive Director of the Northeast Organic Farming Association.

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Andrianna Natsoulas has been a social and environmental activist for over two decades. She has implemented and created programs at several organizations, including Greenpeace, Public Citizen and the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance. Andrianna has coordinated with the global food sovereignty movements and has served on national and international boards and steering committees to protect fishing rights, fight trade agreements and build alliances. She has participated in protests around the world from Washington, DC to Cancun to Geneva to Hong Kong and has stood shoulder to shoulder with farmers and fisherfolk to defend their rights to provide local and culturally appropriate food for their communities. Currently, Andrianna is the Executive Director of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York and lives in the Hudson Valley.

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