Food Voices: The Book

In the early 2010’s, I felt the voices of the people growing and catching our food were not being heard, so I set out to interview over 80 farmers and fisherfolk across 5 countries. The project introduced the concept of food sovereignty, told the stories of those living it, and activated people by connecting food sovereignty with the local food movement. Food Voices: Stories From the People Who Feed Us praises the farmers and fisherfolk who are fighting with their sweat and hands, trying to create – or actually re-create – a food system that values quality over quantity, and communities and the environment over the corporate bottom-line. Town-by-town, these front-line players are working to change how food is provided, processed and distributed.

Food Voices introduces the concept of food sovereignty and highlights farmers and fishermen pursuing this movement. The stories of their struggles and triumphs were collected and highlighted in articles, on the radio, in blogs and in a comprehensive book aimed to strengthen and enhance the global movement towards food sovereignty. As the movement grows, there is a thirst to hear and share personal experiences and to further explore the concept. Through story telling, people can learn from each other and empower the broader movement. The book helps engage and build the movement, while offering information and resources on how to create food sovereignty in any community.

Food Voices concentrates on the men and women reclaiming their right to provide food for their communities in the United States and offers a glimpse of the movement in four other countries to illustrate it is a global phenomenon that has been building in some places for years. Interviews collected from the United States, Ecuador, Venezuela, Brazil and Haiti indicate that food sovereignty is spontaneously growing stronger throughout the Americas.