A PEOPLE’S ORIENTATION TO A REGENERATIVE ECONOMY

FOOD SOVEREIGNTY and LAND SOVEREIGNTY From seed to harvest, too many of us are disconnected from our food. We live in a food apartheid, where white and wealthier communities can access healthy foods, leaving the rest of us captive to corporate agriculture and chemical companies that push unhealthy food options. Our food system is so unhealthy that during the current pandemic, large-scale farms have thrown away food while over 40 million people go to bed hungry.18 We are not only disconnected from our food, but from the land on which we live. The land, which provides the soil to grow our food and the ground on which our homes are built, has been commodified and extracted to serve the economy, rather than held with the sacred care that it should be given. To cultivate a Regenerative Economy, we need to reshape our society’s relationship to the land and to food.

18 Feeding America. www.feedingamerica.org.

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