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Farm Together Now recently teamed up with the National Family Farm Coalition to make a video about Via Campesina's seven principles of food sovereignty. The video features members of the NFFC from across the country: Margot McMillen, Missouri Rural Crisis Center Bob St. Peter, Food for Maine's Future Daniel Teague, Mississippi Association of Cooperatives/Federation of Southern Cooperatives John Peck, Family Farm Defenders, Wisconsin Dena Hoff, Northern Plains Resource Council, Montana John Kinsman, Family Farm Defenders, Wisconsin Ben Burkett, Mississippi Association of Cooperatives/Federation of Southern Cooperatives The Principles include: 1. Food: A Basic Human Right. Everyone must have access to safe, nutritious and culturally appropriate food in sufficient quantity and quality to sustain a healthy life with full human dignity. Each nation should declare that access to food is a constitutional right and guarantee the development of the primary sector to ensure the concrete realization of this fundamental right. 2. Agrarian Reform. A genuine agrarian reform is necessary which gives landless and farming people -- especially women -- ownership and control of the land they work and returns territories to indigenous peoples. The right to land must be free of discrimination on the basis of gender, religion, race, social class or ideology; the land belongs to those who work it. 3. Protecting Natural Resources. Food Sovereignty entails the sustainable care and use of natural ...