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We produce food, not commodities: Jyoti Fernandes at the Food Otherwise conference

23 February 2016

Jyoti Fernandes, at the Voedsel Anders conference in the Netherlands, highlights the importance in breaking out of the existing dominant framework that reduces food to a commodity.

Jyoti Fernandes spoke at the Voedsel Anders (Food Otherwise) conference in the Netherlands. In her intervention, Jyoti highlights the importance in breaking out of the existing dominant framework that reduces food to a commodity. She stresses the importance in strengthening the movement that is constructing alternatives: alternative markets and food supply chains; and to change the current political context in Europe and bring peasant voices to the political sphere. Voedsel Anders is a network of farmers, fisherfolk, scientists, beekeepers, students, artists, academics, policymakers, journalists and other active citizens in the Netherlands and Belgium engaged in building healthy food systems. For more information visit their website.

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