Transcript of the presentation by Dr. Steve Suppan at the Tuft University Graduate Student Symposium, “Power in the Global Food System: Mapping Food Production and Food Sovereignty in the 21st Century”, April 5, 2007.
Dr. Suppan posed the question, “What challenges do the trade policy and technology facets of the proposed Second Green Revolution and concomitant increase in net food import dependency pose to food sovereignty?” Using the four topics of discussion at the Nyéléni Forum for Food Sovereignty, held in February in Mali, he developed four theses to answer the question. These were 1) local markets and international trade, 2) local knowledge and technology, 3) access and control over resources and 4) production models.
