The global food system : issues and solutions 1 Food sovereignty: some initial thoughts and questions for research Annette Aurelie Desmarais . 2 Justifying the human right to food in the food sovereignty framework William D. Schanbacher . 3 Agribusiness concentration: globalization market power and resistance Douglas H. Constance Mary Hendrickson and Philip H. Howard . 4 Racism gender discrimination and food chain workers in the United States Joann Lo . 5 Lessons from the food system: Borkian paradoxes plutocracy and the rise of Walmarts buyer power R. Dennis Olson . 6 The pursuit of happiness: at the intersection of food performance and consumer identity Sara B. Dykins Callahan . 7 Battles for the soul of organic: the grassroots versus the suits Grace Gershuny . 8 Wheres the beef: Looking for food in religion and ecology Dell deChant . 9 The GMO threat to food sovereignty: science resistance and transformation Brian Tokar . 10 Agroecology and social movements Peter M. Rosset and Maria Elena Martinez Torres . 11 Contested land politics and trajectories of agrarian change within an emergent world Agro commodity regime: insights from the BRICS and the periphery Ben McKay Alberto Alonso Fradejas Chunyu Wang and Saturnino M. Borras Jr. . 12 The importance of process in achieving food sovereignty: participatory action research (PAR) in coffeelands of Nicaragua Heather R. Putnam and J. Christopher Brown.