The Food Sovereignty Network

Establishing new trade routes

Throughout history, we have maintained sufficiency and sustainability within our environments through local agriculture. Everything else that could not be produced regionally, would be made accessible via trade route.

E.A.R.T.H.’s Food Sovereignty Network seeks to rebuild trade routes in our country and abroad, not through corporate or government shipping, but through a nonprofit trade network working with organic CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) shares. This trade network connects these farms and communities to make more accessible food and goods that do not grow in our local climates, trading excess commodities in one area with another’s excess commodity in another; a non-profit shipping network .

By establishing networks between farms and travelers, we can help our local communities across the country maintain the diversity of the food on their table without relying on the corporate grocery stores. We can do this by slowly converting our communities over to CSA shares and food distribution centers, where we can pick up a box of food or have one delivered to us, while never having to enter a grocery store. By establishing trade routes now, we will create a much more sustainable future for ourselves and generations to come.

Excess Commodity

Citrus, pomegranate and avocados grow in abundance within Southern California and Arizona, while quinoa and goji is regional to southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico, such as maple syrup and blueberries are regional to the north east, while salmon and rice are regional to the west.

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“Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally-appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems. It puts the aspirations and needs of those who produce, distribute and consume food at the heart of food systems and policies rather than the demands of markets and corporations.”

Declaration of Nyéléni, the first global forum on food sovereignty, Mali, 2007