The right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound methods.
Food sovereignty discourse, emerging from peasant movements, emphasizes communities' right to define food systems; gender has been a secondary concern, though women comprise the majority of food producers and are most vulnerable to system dispossession.
Use 'food sovereignty' while explicitly centering women's land rights, seed autonomy, and decision-making power—food sovereignty without gender sovereignty is incomplete.
Food sovereignty movements increasingly recognize that women's control over seeds, knowledge, and land is foundational to food system resilience and cultural continuity; this represents maturation of the concept.
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