Sovereign Food
Where the food here comes from — who grows it, what they say about how, and the water it grew in.
Why nothing here is called organic
In Costa Rica “orgánico” is a legally defined term. Only operators registered with the SFE, or certified by an accredited third party, may use it — around 81 nationally, almost all growing for export. Applying it to a grower who has never filed a plan de finca would be wrong twice over: legally, and because it flattens the difference between holding a certificate and keeping a practice. So we tell you where things come from instead.
About the name
Soberanía alimentaria — food sovereignty — was named by La Vía Campesina in Rome in 1996: the right of people to define their own food and agriculture systems. We are not part of that movement, and this list is deliberately broader than the term. We use it because it names the direction.
Why we show the watershed
Food is made of water. Every farm sits in a catchment, and what happens upstream arrives downstream. Unlike a claim about how something was grown, a watershed is geography — you can check it, and it accuses nobody. Each one here is administered by an ASADA, a community water association, so it is a place with someone you can talk to.