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CSA believes that the current trends of liberalization and globalization are undermining food sovereignty at the community and national levels and should be opposed. This has to be done at the local, national and international levels. There should be popular resistance against multilateral institutions like the WTO and the World Bank who prescribe policies and institutionalize mechanisms that support only first world agriculture and large agri-business corporations to the detriment of the lives, livelihoods and productive resources of the farming communities in the developing world. This would mean that all people, at all times have access to nutritious, safe, personally acceptable and culturally appropriate foods, produced in ways that are environmentally sound and socially just and dignified. Further, self-determination and self-governance in food and farming are critical to achieve food sovereignty. The freedom of choice, the right to define the pathways and approaches to be adopted should then be left to communities and nations and not imposed in a “One Size Fits All” manner. As part of our work to secure food sovereignty and in an attempt to influence policies that govern it, CSA has begun anchoring the South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication (SAAPE) and is the India Focal Point for the theme of Food Sovereignty.