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Who controls food, controls the future. In From Siege to Soil, Raya Ziada examines food sovereignty as a struggle for land, dignity, and self-determination. From Gaza to Burkina Faso and Chiapas, the article traces how communities resist dispossession through seeds, farming, and collective action.
This paper is part of “Palestine Insights – Critical Interventions”, a bilingual reader edited by Dr. Karin A. Gerster and Mahmoud Muna, that brings together essays, studies, and critical reflections by leading thinkers across disciplines. The book engages Palestine as a political and intellectual terrain, examining land and geography, political economy, law and governance, society, culture, and artistic practice as interlinked sites of power and struggle. Moving beyond description, the volume offers critical interventions that challenge dominant narratives and rethink how Palestine is written, governed, and imagined.
Raya Ziada is a programmes manager for food sovereignty at Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Regional Office Palestine & Jordan. Her work bridges agroecology, radical pedagogy, and collective action, focusing on confronting colonial violence and advancing practical strategies of decolonial feminism and food sovereignty. She is co-founder of the Manjala Agri-cultural initiative and the Palestinian Agro-ecological Forum.