Sembrando soberanía alimentaria para otros modelos de vida en Euskal Herria. Las políticas públicas locales como herramienta de transformación

Abstract

In the current context of a systemic crisis of capitalism a critical review of how agriculture and food production are being seen is of central importance. The capitalist agro-industrial model based on the principle of seeing food as merchandise rather than as a right, and organised around the interests of the big transnational corporations, leads to food, ecological, social and economic vulnerability. In the face of this, the food sovereignty agenda, as a holistic, open and alternative approach, represents an anti-hegemonic proposition of the first order: regions as the strategic sphere for implementing this agenda, and public policy as the fundamental tool to drive the transition to other models of social, political and economic organisation that place food and the sustainability of life at centre stage.