Sfax, second city of Tunisia, is considered as the economic pole of the country. Its economic dynamism and its open port on the Mediterranean give it a place of choice on the international market. However, it faces many problems: uncontrolled industrialization causing pollution of the soil and the sea, arid...

The food system of Fez in Morocco faces many challenges: profession of devalued farmer and difficult living conditions leading to a significant phenomenon of rural exodus, significant use of chemicals for agriculture and water pollution, development strategy of agriculture contradicting the scarcity of water resources, transformation of diets. But at...

The Ho Chi Minh City food system faces many challenges: the high use of chemicals for agriculture, the lack of means and knowledge for smallholder farmers to develop and transition towards more sustainable production systems, the vulnerability to climate change and the legacy of the war that contaminated most of...

The food system in Guanajuato, Mexico faces many challenges: increasing numbers of overweight and obesity, intensive production of high value-added fruits and vegetables for export, depletion of water resources, lack of coordination of actors, low participation citizen and omnipresence of corruption. However, initiatives are emerging in the territory and the...

The food system of Valparaíso in Chile faces many challenges: a neoliberal economic model that favors national economic development to the detriment of small local producers, the low purchasing power of households hinders access to healthy food, a strong legacy of the dictatorship of Pinochet, who still generates fear of...

Formally adopted in 2018 by the General Assembly of the United Nations, the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas is a landmark for the right to food of small-scale producers and the struggle for food sovereignty around the world. FIAN International organizes this three-part...