The global food and farm system is broken. In the middle of one of the most productive agricultural periods ever, farmers can’t earn a fair price for what they raise and farmworkers don't earn a fair wage for their labor. Meanwhile, more than 850 million people around the world go hungry every day and the environmental degradation caused by industrial farming is spreading across the globe and creeping into our own backyards. Profits for a few seed, agrichemical and food processing corporations outweigh the needs of all of the rest of us. The system no longer values healthy, delicious food, productive and sustainable rural communities or people’s right to make decisions about their communities and their farms.

This booklet explores how family farmers, environmentalists and social justice activists around the world are embracing food sovereignty, the right that all people have to decide what they eat and to ensure that that agriculture in their community is fair and healthy for everyone and to fix the broken food and farming system.