La autonomía local en la declaratoria de territorios libres de transgénicos como garantía al derecho de la soberanía alimentaria

Abstract

The right to food sovereignty has become a conflict between peasant and indigenous communities with the State and their agro-industrial policies, since these communities argue that through this model it is impossible to guarantee this right, due to the techniques of production that are used based on the excessive use of agrochemicals and genetically modified seeds. There is a scenario in which food is commercialized through public policies that support foreign investment and away from the rights of the rural population, by focusing on single-species plantations, rapid production under industrial techniques required by multinationals foreign for export, therefore, move away from the small producer and encourage the concentration of land. In this research, under a descriptive and explanatory analysis, the autonomy of local communities is analyzed, which manifests itself as a participatory and democratic exercise that the rural population uses to guarantee their right to food sovereignty, along with other legal manifestations that make these viable. statements; and starting from the theory of law as Ferrajoli's system of guarantees, other secondary sources are interpreted under the complement of a field analysis based on personal communication with one of the main leaders who has participated in the declarations of GMO-free territories in Narino. In this sense, it is concluded that the communities defend their right to food sovereignty, limiting the power, the wild power of foreign multinationals and the power of the State that supports these investments, based on a political and participatory exercise, with which Communities are turning their backs on the use of transgenic seeds and on the agro-toxic and agro-industrial obligations that derive from them. The declarations of transgenic free territories are a democratic right that limits these powers; the idea that everything has a price and has an owner must be demolished, because from this the rights of the producing communities cannot be guaranteed, nor the rights of the hungry community, on the contrary, this further opens the gap to inequality and the people are not going to allow this. Here there is a broad normative support in favor of diversity, healthy food, natural food and people's participation, and this is what guarantees food sovereignty.