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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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Maude Barlow and Youth & Children Orchestra of Venezuela receive awards

Maude Barlow (RLA 2005) will receive this year's Canadian Environment Awards Citation of Lifetime Achievement. The award is presented to an individual who has demonstrated exceptional dedication and made an outstanding contribution to environmental protection.

The Youth & Children Orchestra of Venezuela, founded by our 2001 Laureate José Antonio Abreu, wins the Prince of Asturias Arts Award for having combined, within a single project, the highest artistic quality and a profound ethical conviction applied for the improvement of our social reality.