Steps towards Food Democracy - Manual for Participatory Food System Sustainability Assessment

To enable beneficial monitoring, we recommend the following: a) Schedule regular monitoring meetings with actors contributing to and/or benefiting from the implementation plan. b) W here implementation entails a detailed budget, make sure that its execution is evaluated and communicated to all participants c) In monitoring meetings, include discussion of the following questions: Have we achieved our objectives? What difficulties are there and what can we do to solve them? d) n the course of monitoring, it is important to document any and all agreed-upon adjustments.

Step 6: Strengthening ties of the food sustainability initiative with ­existing social and political movements Finally, we recommend that groups implementing the FoodSAT explore options for connecting their initiative with other local, regional, and global socio-political movements. The more interconnected the action for change is, the more possibilities will open up for replication as well as incorporation of local needs and solutions into agendas at higher scales. To this end, it is important that the participants in interconnected initiatives possess: – A shared vision – Common interests – Clear claims regarding what must be changed – Clear expectations in terms of collaboration with social and political movements Examples of related movements include those for food sovereignty, those for people’s right to land and water, those working against the harms of climate change, as well as de-colonial movements and organized women’s movements. Lastly, possible food movements include: • La Vía Campesina: https://viacampesina.org/es/ • Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica: https://coica.org.ec/ • Consumers’ movement: https://www.slowfood.com/es/ • Associated Country Women of the World: https://www.acww.org.uk/ Rede Ecovida: http://ecovida.org.br/

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