24/08/2024
LOCAL FOOD 4 GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP. First night back home in my own bed after a short holiday, I had a dream that we started a NEW CAMPAIGN. Join me in thinking that the Local Food movement and awareness of Food Citizenship is the best springboard toward Global Citizenship.
Why we need Global Citizenship? In the process towards the UN SUMMIT OF THE FUTURE it becomes clear (again) that nations-states have such limited interests that they won't appropriately give way to social transformation. For example the proposal to appoint a Special UN ENVOY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS has now been given lower priority than civili society enthusiastically urgend member states to go for. The framework of the UN depends on - ultimately - the monopoly of UN member-states. These are governments that not seldom are civilil society unfriendly. So. we need a new perspective to emphasize the urgent need to assure the wellbeing of FUTURE GENERATIONS: acting together as global citizens! for the common good. Food as a commons.
Global citizenship is not something abstract or outlandish, GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP CAN FIRMLY BE ROOTED and is embedded in THE LOCAL FOOD MOVEMENT.
