Synopses & Reviews
Food sovereignty—or the right of a people to operate and control their own food and agricultural systems—has all but disappeared throughout much of the world, usurped by multinational corporations engaging in industrialized farming and global trade. The Struggle for Food Sovereignty examines the prospects and struggles of family farms, peasants, and others in the fight for control over local sustenance and rights of access to land and food. The authors examine the issues in both the global north and south, finding a common vision even amid apparently radically differing political and economic conditions.
Review
“The Struggle for Food Sovereignty cogently underscores the global threat of financialization to family farming, identifying possibilities for peasant mobilization to protect land, food and society. It complements extant food sovereignty analyses, breathing new life and meaning into the agrarian question.”
Synopsis
In recent years, food sovereignty has emerged as a way of contesting corporate control of agricultural markets in pursuit of a more democratic, decentralized food system. The concept unites individuals, communities, civil society organizations, and even states in opposition to globalizing food regimes.
This collection examines expressions of food sovereignty ranging from the direct action tactics of La Via Campesina in Brazil to the consumer activism of the Slow Food movement and the negotiating stances of states from the global South at WTO negotiations. With each case, the contributors explore how claiming food sovereignty allows individuals to challenge the power of global agribusiness and reject neoliberal market economics.
With perspectives drawn from Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australia, Globalization and Food Sovereignty is the first comparative collection to focus on food sovereignty activism worldwide.
Synopsis
With perspectives drawn from Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australia, Globalization and Food Sovereignty is the first comparative collection to focus on food sovereignty activism worldwide.
About the Author
Rémy Herrera is an economist and researcher at the National Centre for Scientific Research at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.Kin Chi Lau is assistant professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong.
Table of Contents
Presentation of the World Forum for Alternatives
List of Abbreviations
Introduction by Rémy Herrera and Kin Chi Lau
1. Theoretical Framework by Samir Amin
2. Latin America by João Pedro Stedile
3. Africa by Sam Moyo
4. Asia (I) by Erebus Wong and Jade Tsui Sit
5. Asia (II) by Utsa Patnaik
6. Oceania by Rémy Herrera and Poeura Tetoe
7. Europe by Gérard Choplin et al.
Conclusion by Rémy Herrera and Kin Chi Lau
About the Contributors
Bibliographical References and Further Readings
Index