What's For Dinner?

A-dae Romero, Cochiti Pueblo/Kiowa, and Paul Nicholson, Basque farmer, share food sovereignty experience rarely recounted in the US. A-dae works as a lawyer to undergird traditional Pueblo farming's role in sustaining community. She highlights food sovereignty's importance for Native American farmers in light of reservations' extreme food insecurity and describes implications of FSMA (the Food Safety Modernization Act). If applied to tribal food enterprises, it would break constitutional and treaty protections of tribal sovereignty and cripple farming done for economic development. Her words and Paul Nicholson's account of the relevance of food sovereignty in the western European country of Spain frame discussion of this year's awarding of the Food Sovereignty Prize and its opposite, the World Food Prize.