{"id":489,"date":"2018-04-15T12:24:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T11:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/?p=489"},"modified":"2019-02-18T15:20:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T14:20:10","slug":"breads-of-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post_causes","link":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/de\/cause\/breads-of-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Call to Action 2018: Our Bread, Our Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Call to Action 2018-2019: Join us from all over the world to reclaim our poison-free, gmo-free, local, agrobiodiverse and agroecological food heritage.<\/em><\/p>\n

Food systems are either sources of nourishment forging the foundations of human health and well-being or one of the most substantial health risk factors.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"An entire colonization of the earth, agriculture and our bodies has taken place over a century. Food and agriculture systems upon which we all depend have increasingly become industrialized and globalized. Commercial compulsions of current global agricultural and food systems, compounded by high levels of economic inequality are making healthy diets unavailable or unaffordable to large sections of the population in every part of the world.<\/p>\n

The degradation<\/strong> of every dimension of the food chain, from soil, water and seeds to production and processing and distribution, involve, above all, the abandonment of natural, organic and traditional diets, which have been the foundation of human health throughout the world in most of known human history.<\/p>\n

Traditional diets<\/strong>, such as the Mediterranean<\/a> or Ayurvedic<\/a> diets, are characterized by determined protective properties, and tend to be more diverse than western standardized diets, as well as supported by local, agrobiodiverse and agroecological food systems<\/strong>, which regenerate the health of ecosystems and communities and work toward harmony with nature, food sovereignty and seed resilience in the hands of farmers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our traditional foods are our \u201cbreads of freedom\u201d, based on biodiversity and the historical and cultural heritage of our communities<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

E.g.: corn and tortillas in Latin America<\/a>, rice in Indonesia Japan and Bangladesh, banana and cassava across Africa, pasta in Italy, baked bread in many countries of Europe and hundreds of kinds of breads of India, to name a few.<\/p>\n

Under the pressure of the current industrial food and agriculture systems these are becoming \u201cforgotten foods\u201d, but they still are the expression of a value chain that works for nature and for the health and dignity of people<\/strong>. They come from the varieties of our indigenous grains and staples, from biodiverse poison-free agriculture, from artisanal processing. <\/strong><\/p>\n

All over the world policies are being made and laws are being written to privilege corporate profits above people\u2019s nourishment and health. As corporations hijack our seed, our agriculture, our food processing, our retail systems and local economies, they are destroying our livelihoods and the health of all citizens. Our breads of freedom are also affected by the release of specific GM crops in those parts of the world which are recognized as a centre of origin of those same crops, and the issue of germplasm contamination represents a threat to the future of biodiversity at a global level.<\/p>\n

Our right to livelihoods with dignity and freedom is connected to protecting our food heritage.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Resisting all aspects of the globalization of our food systems and protecting our traditional diets and our breads of freedom by practicing and promoting sustainable and ecological models in agriculture, food economies \u00a0and societies, are the most powerful means to regain our agriculture, our territories, our food, our natural environment, our future.<\/strong> In the reconquest of self-reliance lies the power that makes big corporations irrelevant and useless. The means to reconquer are in our hands: for the good of the earth, for our health, for our common goods. Our hope, our future is based on the reconstruction of this virtuous link between fields, tables and communities.<\/p>\n

Also read:<\/p>\n

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Diverse Women of the World Resolve to Defend Biological and Cultural Diversity through Non-violence<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n