Global Activism in Food Politics [electronic resource] : Power Shift /
Mann, A.author.
Who should provide food, and through what relationships? Whose livelihoods should be protected? For over 20 years the peasant farmers of La Via Campesina have been engaged in the fight against injustice, hunger and poverty under the banner of food sovereignty, 'the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems'. They campaign for healthy, sustainable alternatives to an industrial food system controlled by agribusiness companies and the architects of unfair trade agreements. This book draws on grounded case studies of agrarian movements in the Americas and Europe as exemplars of a 'power shift,' as local opposition scales up to global action in an effort to wrest control of our food away from transnational corporations and back to communities.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; A food system in crisis; Civil society responds; Why La Via Campesina?; What 'power shift'?; Materialising the network; Framing for collective action; Outline of the book; Part I; 2 An Undemocratic Food System; The state of global agriculture; Competing paradigms; From seed to shelf, from farm to fork; Consuming citizens and alternative food networks (AFNs); Trust and governance; 3 The Peasant Way, Through Food Sovereignty
A discursive shift - food democracy versus the development projectThe invisible peasant mobilises; The evolution of a transnational social movement; Half the sky and half the farmers; A concept in action; Redistributive land reform, from below; Achieving genuine food security; Building alliances and responding to crises; Part II; 4 Poor, Rural and Indigenous: The 'Treble Struggle' of Chilean Women; A 'neoliberal success story'; The gendered nature of citizenship; The Indigenas; Resource-poor yet resourceful; Dealing with the media; Campaign framing and analysis
5 From the Tequila Crisis to theTortilla Crisis: The Case of Mexican AgricultureThe crisis of the Mexican countryside; Trade liberalisation and its impacts; Clientelism and corruption; Empowering local producers; Campesino media; Campaign framing and analysis; 6 Challenging Notions of Sovereignty: Basque Farmers in Union; An 'imagined country'; A union of farmers; The broader political context: Europe; The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP); Mobilising against the GMO threat; Reconnecting producers and consumers; Campaign framing and analysis; Part III
7 The Campaign for Food Sovereignty 20 Years OnShifting power through transnational activism; The influence of political contexts; Framing food sovereignty; Seeking democratic media; The future of food politics; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Who should provide food, and through what relationships? Whose livelihoods should be protected? For over 20 years the peasant farmers of La Via Campesina have been engaged in the fight against injustice, hunger and poverty under the banner of food sovereignty, 'the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems'. They campaign for healthy, sustainable alternatives to an industrial food system controlled by agribusiness companies and the architects of unfair trade agreements. This book draws on grounded case studies of agrarian movements in the Americas and Europe as exemplars of a 'power shift,' as local opposition scales up to global action in an effort to wrest control of our food away from transnational corporations and back to communities.
Economic development.
Ethnology—Latin America.
Poverty.
Economic policy.
Political communication.
Social work.
Development Studies.
Latin American Culture.
Development Aid.
Development Policy.
Political Communication.
Social Work.