Eric Chaurette
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About Eric Chaurette
Eric Chaurette is a co-manager at Inter Pares, an Ottawa-based feminist international social justice organization. Chaurette works on issues related to economic justice, food sovereignty, and agroecology and supports programs in Asia, Africa, and Canada. He has coordinated several farmer-to-farmer exchanges, farmer-led and action-research projects on landgrabs, and the impact of new technologies in agriculture.
It's time for Canada to show food policy leadership — at home and abroad
Food sovereignty puts the voices and concerns of small farmers — most of whom are women — centre stage, along with fishers, Indigenous Peoples and others marginalized by the global food system, write Eric Chaurette and Gisèle Yasmeen.