Trade liberalization processes, the World Trade Organization rounds and bilateral agreements were confronted by generating strategic alliances led by La Via Campesina, he said.

“We realized it was necessary to improve our collective understanding of what food sovereignty means”, Villareal said.

The Forum of Nyeleni, in Mali, set up the bases of a mobilization process that began three years ago. Villareal said that food sovereignty is presented as a real alternative to climate change and of course to the food crisis.

The activist highlighted that the processes of inclusion of the concept of food sovereignty in the constitutions of the Latin American countries, as well as in social and agronomic sciences, is a result of the struggle of the communities.

According to Villareal, the successive crises that have taken place after the forum in Nyeleni have implied challenges that we didn’t expect at the time of the forum, such as the expansion of the networks that are now fighting for Food Sovereignty.