Grabbing power
Subtitle: the new struggles for land, food and democracy in northern Honduras
By: by Tanya M. Kerssen
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Land & sovereignty series -- No. 1.; Land sovereignty series
Publisher: Food First Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oakland, CA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780935028430; 9780935028447
Subjects: Rural Land use; Economic conditions; Peasants; Rural conditions; Agriculture; Political activity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. From bananas to palm oil; title: The Aguan Valley: land for the people; title: The decline of agriculture and the rise of the maquila; title: Grabbing land and power: the new agro-oligarchs; title: Militarization and the war on drugs: security for whom?; title: The war on peasants; title: Pt. 2. Palm oil and the corporate food regime; title: The making of a "food like substance"; title: Subsidizing corporate expansion; title: Free trade and fast food; title: Greening the regime, part 1: fueling the "green" economy; title: Greening the regime, part 2: ecotourism or eco-colonialism?; title: Pt. 3. The new Aguan movements: land, resistance and food sovereignty; title: The new cycle of struggle: a sketch of two Aguan movements; title: Fighting fragmentation, constructing unity; title: Peasant-controlled palm oil: the case of Salam?; title: From palm oil to food sovereignty; title: Conclusion: grabbing power back.