FOOD SOVEREIGNTY AS A DECOLONIAL AND TERRITORIAL STRUGGLE

Abstract

The aim of the article is to demonstrate that food sovereignty was built in Brazil through decolonial and territorial struggles of countless social movements and peoples that break with the logic of the modern/colonial world-system from the moment they build a pedagogy of connectivity in and with the land, nature, food, feminism, ethnicities, seeds, orality, races, cultures, rivers and human and non-human animals. The problem we seek to answer is: how is food sovereignty being built in the country? To face such questioning, it is necessary to go through the logic of the modern/colonial world-system and its monocultural relationship, which privatized land, territory and food and led us to the chaotic project of hunger and food insecurity. On the other hand, to present food sovereignty as an alternative proposal, from a decolonial and territorial perspective, capable of breaking with food coloniality. Then present the difficult achievement of food sovereignty as a Human Right. Finally, analyze the construction of food sovereignty from the praxis of the four social movements that make up Via Campesina in Brazil. The adopted methodology encompasses the deductive method, based on bibliography, international standards and data presentation, which guarantee the theoretical foundation. In conclusion, social movements show, in their emerging sociologies, that food sovereignty is not just a theoretical and homogeneous concept that the State holds, but a plural and political, theoretical and practical, fluid and unfinished movement of resignification of the form of cultivation from the earth, territory and food.