Organic Law on the Food Sovereignty Regime (LORSA)

The Organic Law on the Food Sovereignty Regime establishes Ecuador's comprehensive legal framework for ensuring food sovereignty and guaranteeing permanent access to healthy, nutritious and culturally appropriate food for individuals, communities and peoples. The law governs public policies related to food production, processing, conservation, storage, exchange, marketing and consumption, prioritizing small and medium-scale rural producers, popular-economy organizations and artisanal fisheries. It also covers access to land and water, agrobiodiversity and seeds, research and traditional knowledge, financing, producer associations, insurance, productive infrastructure, agroecology, public procurement, sanitary quality, nutrition and social participation.