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Tonight's Guest: Shirley Sherrod The Food Sovereignty Prize was awarded in Des Moines this week, the 5th year this prize has been given to underline and highlight agriculture practiced with different objectives and values from that honored by the World Food Prize, also awarded in Des Moines at this time and typically given to agribusiness corporations. We re-air a US story chosen to highlight the Food Sovereignty Prize ceremony. A black farmers' daughter in the 1950's, Shirley Sherrod wanted to escape rural life, but her father's murder in 1965 redirected her to civil rights activism and then co-founding New Communities, a 6000 acre land trust modeled on a kibbutz, on which black Americans could farm and live. She describes working with the conditions black farmers faced - during those years, at the USDA, and now, when she is fostering opportunities for women farmers and creating the new site for New Communities