food sovereignty power, gender, and the right to food粮食主权权力、性别和食物的权利.pdfVIP

Essay Food Sovereignty: Power, Gender, and the Right to Food Rajeev C. Patel* School of Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa This article was commissioned for the physical conditions. In 1996, the Food which one attempts to eat, it is not PLoS Medicine series on Big Food that and Agriculture Organization of the unreasonable to understand that lack of examines the activities and influence of the United Nations (FAO) established at its control as correlated with factors associat- food and beverage industry in the health World Food Summit the most widely ed with obesity too. It is possible to have arena. agreed definition [5] that ‘‘Food security, sufficient calories, but insufficiently nutri- at the individual, household, national, tious food for a healthy life. Armed with regional and global levels [is achieved] this understanding, and with persistent Power over Food when all people, at all times, have physical evidence across countries of women and and economic access to sufficient, safe and girls’ disempowerment compared to men One of the most enduring misconcep- nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and boys [8], it becomes easier to tions about hunger is that it is primarily and food preferences for an active and appreciate the systematically higher rates the res