Mobilized News Announces Global Live Media Experience on Community-Owned Food Systems

Reclaiming Health & Power: Community-Owned Food Systems in Action
November 23, 2025 | Global Hybrid Event + Broadcast

At a time when industrial food systems fuel inequality, climate breakdown, and ill health, communities worldwide are reclaiming control.

✅ Keynotes, panels, and live interviews
✅ Showcases of food co-ops, CSAs, urban farms, land trusts
✅ Tools and tech for community food resilience
✅ Networking and media marketplace

Free global broadcast — register now to save your spot!

Mobilized News is proud to announce a groundbreaking  hybrid and live live media event, “Reclaiming Health & Power: Community-Owned Food Systems in Action,” taking place November 23, 2025.

This special media experience will spotlight how communities worldwide are reclaiming health, equity, and resilience through local ownership of food production and distribution systems. It will feature keynote speakers, live panels, solution showcases, and a media marketplace, designed to inform, inspire, and mobilize action.

Event Summary

This special live and hybrid media experience that brings together local food leaders, cooperative organizers, regenerative farmers, policy changemakers, and innovators to spotlight how communities are reclaiming control of their food systems — improving health, equity, and resilience.

The event will include:

✅ Keynote talks & panels
✅ Product and service showcases
✅ A media marketplace of food sovereignty tools
✅ A live + recorded broadcast for global reach
✅ A surrounding calendar of workshops, community events, and actions

Goals of the Event Experience

1. Inspire: Highlight real-world examples of community-controlled food systems improving health, equity, and climate resilience.
2. Educate: Share strategies, models, and lessons from food sovereignty movements.
3. Connect: Build bridges between farmers, food co-ops, buyers’ clubs, policy advocates, and media.
4. Equip: Showcase tools, technologies, and services that make local ownership possible.
5. Mobilize: Catalyze collaborative action toward local, just, regenerative food futures.

️ Topics & Discussion Themes

1️⃣ Why Food Sovereignty Matters Now

• Global vs local food systems
• The public health, climate, and justice intersections
• Why community ownership = resilience

2️⃣ Cooperative & Community-Owned Models

• Food co-ops, urban farms, community-supported agriculture (CSA)
• Indigenous and landback food initiatives
• Worker-owned food enterprises and shared distribution

3️⃣ Health & Nutrition Justice

• Addressing food deserts & nutritional inequality
• Culturally appropriate, community-led solutions

4️⃣ Policy, Land Access, and Financing

• Land trusts, agrarian reform, public policies, grantmaking
• Innovative financing models for community food ownership

5️⃣ Technology, Tools, & Innovation

• Platforms for local supply chains, urban agriculture tech, digital marketplaces

6️⃣ Youth, Culture, and Future of Food

• Youth-led food movements, cultural preservation, food and storytelling

aThe event is free and open to the public via online registration.

Agenda with Session Times & Descriptions

November 23, 2025
All times Eastern (EST);

10:00 AM – Opening Keynote: “Why Food Sovereignty Is Public Health”
A global call to rethink our food systems — from extractive to regenerative.

11:00 AM – Panel 1: “On the Ground: Community-Owned Food Models That Work”
Stories from farms, co-ops, and urban growers rebuilding local resilience.

12:30 PM – Break + Marketplace Showcase
Explore tools, services, and innovations supporting community-led food systems.

1:30 PM – Breakout Sessions:
Cooperative Ownership & Governance — with National Cooperative Grocers, worker-owned food leaders
Land, Policy, and Equity — with Land Loss Prevention Project, National Young Farmers Coalition
Indigenous Food Sovereignty — with Winona LaDuke, Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance

3:00 PM – Youth & The Future of Food
Youth leaders and culture workers on reimagining food systems for justice, climate, and community.

4:00 PM –“Mobilizing for a Global Food Shift”
Where do we go from here, and how do we build a just food future?