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Last month, we featured Vandana Shiva calling for food sovereignty on this page. But Vandana Shiva is not the only Right Livelihood Award Recipient who offered solutions to this world-wide crisis before it even became one:

For example, there is Frances Moore-Lappé, who received the prize "for revealing the political and economic causes of world hunger and how citizens can help to remedy them."

Frances Moore-Lappé has always stressed that hunger is caused not by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy. Her bestselling book 'Diet for a small planet" continues to remind us all of the power of our everyday choices to create the world we want.

Organic agriculture, biodiversity, GMO-food, permaculture, farmer's rights, perennial crops ... Our current food crisis is interlinked with various issues and as diverse are the solutions to it.

Filter our Laureates-Page for the Recipients working with food, agriculture and consumerism: Tewolde Berhan, Wes Jackson, GAO, Ibrahim Abouleish, Cary Fowler, Pat Mooney, Percy & Louise Schmeiser, Bill Mollison, and many more.

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First People of the Kalahari (Botswana, RLA 2005)

2008-04-22 Botswana Bushmen refused borehole. BBC News, UK.

The government of Botswana is refusing to allow Kalahari bushmen access to a water borehole.

In 2006, the Bushmen won a landmark legal victory against the government allowing them to return to their ancestral lands in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.

"It is vindictiveness", says Stephen Corry, director of Survival International. "The government does not want them in the area. It is very unhappy that the Bushmen won the court case against it, so this is just an attempt to keep the Bushmen out."

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