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Human Rights and the Food Sovereignty Movement
Our global food system is undergoing rapid change. Since the global food crisis of 2007-2008, a range of new issues have come to public attention, such as land grabbing, food prices volatility, agrofuels and climate change. Peasant social movements are trying to respond to these challenges by organizing from the local to the global to demand food sovereignty. As the transnational agrarian movement La Via Campesina celebrates its 20th anniversary, this book takes stock of the movement’s achievements and reflects on challenges for the future. It provides an in-depth analysis of the movement’s vision and strategies, and shows how it has contributed not only to the emergence of an alternativ...
Governing Turbulence, Risk and Opportunities in the Complexity Age
The book is composed of several articles that explore complexity in its most varied aspects. The solution of contemporary problems, whatever they may be, requires a multifaceted vision, far beyond the reductionist perspective. The study of complex systems, however, does not have the capacity to offer ready answers to the challenges of humanity. On the contrary, it points to the increase in uncertainty, the need to control variables, and uncertainty. This does not mean, therefore, that we should simply ignore the social, economic, and political phenomena that are all around us. What this book demonstrates is the importance of knowledge being disseminated, and it is imperative that different sciences exchange ideas, theories, and breakthroughs.
Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century
Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century illuminates the transnational agrarian movements that are remaking rural society and the world's food and agriculture systems. Marc Edelman explains how peasant movements are staking their claims from farmers' fields to massive protests around the world, shaping heated debates over peasants' rights and the very category of "peasant" within the agrarian organizations and in the United Nations. Edelman chronicles the rise of these movements, their objectives, and their alliances with environmental, human rights, women's, and food justice groups. The book scrutinizes high-profile activists and the forgotten genealogies and policy implications of foundational analytical frameworks like "moral economy," and concepts, such as "food sovereignty" and "civil society." Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century charts the struggle of agrarian movements in the face of land grabbing, counter agrarian reform, and a looming climate catastrophe, and celebrates engaged research from Central America to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Back to the ‘30s?
The essays in this volume address the question: what does it mean to understand the contemporary moment in light of the 1930s? In the aftermath of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and facing a dramatic rise of right wing, authoritarian politics across the globe, the events of the 1930s have acquired a renewed relevance. Contributions from a diverse, interdisciplinary group of scholars address the relationship between these historical moments in various geographical contexts, from Asia-Pacific to Europe to the Americas, while probing an array of thematic questions—the meaning of populism and fascism, the contradictions of constitutional liberalism and “militant democracy,” long cycles and crisis tendencies in capitalism, the gendering and racialization of right wing movements, and the cultural and class politics of emancipatory struggles. Uncovering continuity as well as change and repetition in the midst of transition, Back to the 30s? enriches our ability to use the past to evaluate the challenges, dangers, and promises of the present.
Ecuador’s “Good Living”
Ecuador’s “Good Living”: Crises, Discourse, and Law by Gallegos-Anda, presents a critical approach towards the concept of Buen Vivir that was included in Ecuador’s 2008 Constitution, presenting new inductive theories that analyse the context and power relations that forged it.
¿Adónde va el comercio justo?
Con este libro queremos profundizar en el debate sobre cual es la situación actual del movimiento del comercio justo en el Estado español y los retos que enfrenta, a la vez que presentamos experiencias concretas que nos acercan a una visión integral del comercio justo. Una perspectiva global que tiene en cuenta a todos los actores que participan en el proceso de comercialización (desde el productor hasta al consumidor), que vincula el comercio justo a la soberanía alimentaria, que se opone a aquellos que promueven la globalización neoliberal. Un comercio justo que rechaza ser un instrumento de marketing empresarial, de limpieza de imagen de multinacionales y de grandes superficies y que apuesta por cambiar las injustas reglas del juego que nos afectan por igual al Norte y al Sur. Xavier Montagut es economista especializado en comercio internacional, consumo responsable y comercio justo. Es presidente de la Xarxa de Consum Solidari. Esther Vivas es doctoranda en sociología y periodista. Coordina el área de sensibilización de la Xarxa de Consum Solidari.
Alimentos globalizados
Hoy, la defensa de los derechos y de la libertad de todos y de todas sigue ligada a la defensa de un territorio, en términos ecológicos, sociales y culturales. La producción de alimentos, base de la subsistencia humana, ya no está amenazada por ejércitos feudales sino por un modelo industrial arrasador y por un puñado de multinacionales. La tierra, el agua, las semillas, la biodiversidad, los recursos vitales de la naturaleza, se han transformado en mercancías sujetas a las rígidas leyes del mercado. Nuestra libertad y nuestros derechos, como ciudadanos y consumidores, están en entredicho desde hace tiempo. Y los agricultores de todo el mundo, los defensores de la tierra, están en ...
The Politics of Food Sovereignty
Food sovereignty has been a fundamentally contested concept in global agrarian discourse over the last two decades, as a political project and campaign, an alternative, a social movement, and an analytical framework. It has inspired and mobilized diverse publics: workers, scholars and public intellectuals, farmers and peasant movements, NGOs, and human rights activists in the global North and South. The term ‘food sovereignty’ has become a challenging subject for social science research, and has been interpreted and reinterpreted in a variety of ways. It is broadly defined as the right of peoples to democratically control or determine the shape of their food system, and to produce suffic...
Food Movements Unite!
Food Movements Unite! Strategies to transform our food systems The present corporate food regime dominating the planet’s food systems is environmentally destructive, financially volatile and socially unjust. Though the regime’s contributions to the planet’s four-fold food-fuel-finance and climate crises are well documented, the “solutions” advanced by our national and global institutions reinforce the same destructive technological path, the same global market fundamentalism, and the same unregulated consolidation of corporate power in the food system that brought us the crisis in the first place. A dynamic global food movement has risen up in the face of this sustained corporate a...
