“The concept of Food Sovereignty is, without a question, a political one ”, said the writer and activist Gustavo Duch in an interview with Real World Radio. “The agrarian, peasant and environmentalist organizations from Spain are aware of Food Sovereignty, as well as consumers who understand nutritional food, including what’s behind what we eat”, he said.

In addition to coordinating the above mentioned magazine, Duch writes regularly in European and Latin American newspapers about issues such as rural life and food, the trade of food and public agricultural policies. His Blog (Palabre-ando) is permanently updated and he is present in social networks and conferences of social movements.

Gustavo has published several books about these issues combining political analyses with testimonies and literature, developing in a simple way some key -and complex-issues such as what we eat, who produce it and how food is produced.

The European crisis, especially in Spain, where the unemployment levels amount to 25 per cent of the economically active population, has caused, according to Gustavo, a search of “another economic model” giving value to the countryside in light of the concept of Food Sovereignty. “Europe and Spain have given the primary sector up, and thus, the basis that should support the economic web with the production of something as important as food has been reduced to practically nothing. Returning to an economy with future, without speculation is about “ruralizing” the economy and the Spanish territory. This implies Food Sovereignty as a struggle to stop the advance of capital, but also as a proposal for the future”.

In fact, in a recent article published in La Jornada from Mexico, Gustavo addresses the idea that currently, the concept of Food Sovereignty has become a "physical space" where activists can meet and also a "resistance practice" while we wait for the change in the model. Thus "Food Sovereignty is for many people a necessary utopia that will become true", said Gustavo.