Globalization and food sovereignty : global and local change in the new politics of food / edited by Peter Andrée [and 3 others].

ISBN:

9781442643758

Title:

Author:

Andrée, Peter, 1970-, editor.

Physical Description:

xi, 376 pages ; 24 cm.

Series:

Studies in comparative political economy and public policy

Studies in comparative political economy and public policy.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. One Food Sovereignty in Theory and Policy Debates -- 1.Food Sovereignty and Globalization: Lines of Inquiry / Marie-Josee Massicotte -- 2.The Territory of Self-Determination: Social Reproduction, Agro-Ecology, and the Role of the State / Michael Menser -- 3.Exploring the Limits of Fair Trade: The Local Food Movement in the Context of Late Capitalism / Noah Zerbe -- 4.Local Food: Food Sovereignty or Myth of Alternative Consumer Sovereignty? / Martha McMahon -- pt. Two Food Sovereignty in Comparative Perspective -- 5.Citizen-Farmers: The Possibilities and the Limits of Australia's Emerging Alternative Food Networks / Peter Andree -- 6.From Food Security to Food Sovereignty in Canada: Resistance and Authority in the Context of Neoliberalism / Peter Andree -- 7.Food Sovereignty in Practice: A Study of Farmer-Led Sustainable Agriculture in the Philippines / Sarah Wright --

Contents note continued: 8.Free Markets for All: Transition Economies and the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy / Irena Knezevic -- pt. Three Food Sovereignty in Contentious Politics -- 9.Feminist Political Ecology and La Via Campesina's Struggle for Food Sovereignty through the Experience of the Escola Latino-Americana de Agroecologia (ELAA) / Marie-Josee Massicotte -- 10.Food Sovereignty, Trade Rules, and the Struggle to Know the Origins of Food / Elizabeth Smythe -- 11.Food Sovereignty as Localized Resistance to Globalization in France and the United States / Michael J. Bosia.

Subject Term:

Agriculture -- Economc aspects.

Food -- Political aspects.

Food sovereignty.

Globalization.

Agriculture -- Economic aspects.

Added Author:

Andrée, Peter, 1970-,

Format:

Books

Publication Date:

2014

Publication Information:

Toronto

Buffalo

London

University of Toronto Press,

[2014]

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Summary

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 V#65533;a 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.