 For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. So all over the world, hunger levels are rising. Yet in some parts of the world, they are dramatically declining. One of these countries is Nicaragua. And Nicaragua has achieved this through food sovereignty. Food sovereignty is a radical practice which gives people access to healthy affordable food. Not only a healthy affordable food, but food that is culturally appropriate. This food sovereign model reprioritizes a harmonious relationship with the earth. It's not just about exploiting the land, but about making sure that we regenerate the land as well. When we talk about food sovereignty, we have to talk about land redistribution. And this is kind of the key to the whole project, particularly in places like Nicaragua. It's a revolutionary demand in essence because it redistributes the land to the most oppressed in society to make sure that they have access to grow their own food and continual access to healthy food. So by redistributing land, you're actually completely restructuring all of society and moving much of the country's production away from corporations in the hands of local producers. So you could say that food sovereignty is inherently an anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist demand. It can in fact form the cornerstone for many revolutions and has done in Nicaragua. From 79, agricultural reforms have really been at the heart of the Sandinista movement. Of course, we had the 16 years of neoliberal governance between 1990 and 2006. But in 2007, when the Sandinista came back to power, they actually enshrined food sovereignty into law in Nicaragua. So this meant that it wasn't just a sort of cultural practice amongst indigenous people and amongst the working class, but now it's actually being supported by the government from the top. And this is what makes it very different to many other food sovereign models in the world, because the government is actually subsidizing many of the rural farmers and small landholders in Nicaragua. So here in the context of Nicaragua, within this long-term struggle for the construction of popular sovereignty, which also includes the construction of food sovereignty, there's been a lot of emphasis, especially in recent years, to what we call here massify or basically implement agroecology. Agroecology being understood as one of the key pillars to be able to achieve food sovereignty. Agroecology is considered as a model of agriculture that is basically the opposite to the model of agriculture that was promoted through the Green Revolution. So through the Green Revolution, a type of agriculture that basically replaced a lot of technologies and use of chemicals that were used in war. So the Green Revolution technologies, the heavy use of chemicals, monoculture, et cetera, is something that of course Nicaragua has not been immune to. However, there's been a lot of efforts both here as a product of the San Luis Revolution, the current San Luis government, as well as our popular organizations. There's been a lot of efforts to implement agroecology. At the national level, there's a legal framework for agroecology. So there's a law 765 specifically on agroecology that was passed with the current government in 2011, which follows up on the very important food and nutritional security and sovereignty law that was passed in 2009. And paired with that are dozens and dozens of social programs that are promoted to promote this different kind of agriculture and agriculture that importantly is not based on things like monoculture being dependent on chemical inputs, fertilized, et cetera, but is really based on peasants having land, which Nicaragua they do, thanks to the grain reform, which is a product of the San Luis Revolution, but also being more autonomous in the model of food production, rescuing and sexual and traditional knowledge and pairing that with new ideas, new technologies that might come out of allies in academia or within the organizations. And it's also very much paired with other kinds of methodologies that are contrary to or not used in the dominant capitalist system. So for example, the importance of centralizing peasant knowledge. So within agroecology, there's a big emphasis on put on a methodology that's called the peasant to peasant methodology, which is basically a methodology of sharing knowledge that exists currently exists on farms by peasant farmers, both men and women, but highlighting the important role that women play in agriculture and sharing that horizontally in communities and over time spreading that throughout the territories. Another really important thing that's currently taking place right now within agroecology here in Nicaragua is the is in the area of training. So both the government as well as popular organizations like the ATC have very, very active training programs. The government has a number of training programs in the countryside that are completely free for anyone that wants to participate that makes certain kinds of that makes education available to the working class and the present class that is very much inaccessible in a lot of places in the world, but it's here is very accessible and their agroecological models of food production are being promoted and implemented and also very importantly, popular organizations like the ATC along with the organizations other organizations like Livia Campesina also have their own training programs. When it comes to feeding the people, the only real solution is food sovereignty because the US has been weaponizing food to then start populations and cause further descents as we've seen now in Cuba and this is where Cuban crisis really stems from is the 60-year-long US blockade which start the people and then cause these shortages in supermarkets and markets around Cuba. So I think this is what's been so successful for Nicaragua and why even in spite of the sanctions against it, it's never struggled to meet the basic demands of people which are food, water, housing, sanitation. The Nicaraguan Sandinista government since 2007 has put those at the core of its ideology, not luxuries and not safe profits but the people.