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In this episode, Judith Hitchman, a seasoned activist, shares her experiences on the relationship between food sovereignty and the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE). For Hitchman, the SSE provides the impetus toward system change necessary to achieve food sovereignty. She identifies the need for policy change to enable the SSE to further drive system change, including the empowerment of communities at the local level and within the water, health, finance and food systems. She emphasizes the promotion of indigenous systems, the SSE, and social movements within the food and agriculture system as levers for change to reduce poverty and hunger. To read the Encyclopedia’s entry on the SDGs and the SSE visit unrisd.org/encyclopedia-sse
In this episode, Judith Hitchman, a seasoned activist, shares her experiences on the relationship between food sovereignty and the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE). For Hitchman, the SSE provides the impetus toward system change necessary to achieve food sovereignty. She identifies the need for policy change to enable the SSE to further drive system change, including the empowerment of communities at the local level and within the water, health, finance and food systems. She emphasizes the promotion of indigenous systems, the SSE, and social movements within the food and agriculture system as levers for change to reduce poverty and hunger. To read the Encyclopedia’s entry on the SDGs and the SSE visit unrisd.org/encyclopedia-sse
