Title: Human Rights and the Food Sovereignty Movement
Description: "The book assesses efforts to achieve the international recognition of new human rights for peasants at the international level, namely the 'right to food sovereignty' and 'peasants' rights'. It explores why La Via Campesina was successful in mobilizing a human rights discourse in its struggle against neoliberalism, and also the limitations and potential pitfalls of using the human rights framework"--
Subjects: Food supply, Right to food, NATURE / Natural Resources, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food, Droit à l'alimentation, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, Infrastructure, SOCIAL SCIENCE, General, NATURE, Natural Resources, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Public Policy, Environmental Policy, Agriculture & Food