Globalization and Food Sovereignty

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Globalization and Food Sovereignty

Author	: Peter Andrée
File Size	: 51,7 Mb
Publisher	: University of Toronto Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 01 January 2014
ISBN	: 9781442612280
Pages	: 392 pages

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Globalization and Food Sovereignty by Peter Andrée Book PDF Summary

This collection examines expressions of food sovereignty ranging from the direct action tactics of La Vía Campesina in Brazil to the consumer activism of the Slow Food movement and the negotiating stances of states from the global South at WTO negotiations. With each case, the contributors explore how claiming food sovereignty allows individuals to challenge the power of global agribusiness and reject neoliberal market economics.

Globalization and Food Sovereignty by Peter Andrée,Jeffrey Ayres,Michael J. Bosia,Marie-Josée Massicotte

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Globalization and Food Sovereignty by Peter Andree,Jeffrey Ayres,Michael Bosia,Marie-Josee Massicotte

In recent years, food sovereignty has emerged as a way of contesting corporate control of agricultural markets in pursuit of a more democratic, decentralized food system. The concept unites individuals, communities, civil society organizations, and even states in opposition to globalizing food regimes. This collection examines expressions of food sovereignty

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Public Policies for Food Sovereignty by Annette Aurelie Desmarais,Priscilla Claeys,Amy Trauger

An increasing number of rural and urban-based movements are realizing some political traction in their demands for democratization of food systems through food sovereignty. Some are pressuring to institutionalize food sovereignty principles and practices through laws, policies, and programs. While the literature on food sovereignty continues to grow in volume

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Food Globalization and Sustainability by Peter Oosterveer,David Allan Sonnenfeld

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Human Rights and the Food Sovereignty Movement by Priscilla Claeys

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

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The Politics of Food by William D. Schanbacher

A description of the current global food system, this book challenges our ethical responsibility to the global poor and implicates us all for failing to curb global hunger and malnutrition. The Politics of Food: The Global Conflict between Food Security and Food Sovereignty argues that our current global food system

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Translating Food Sovereignty by Matthew C. Canfield

In its current state, the global food system is socially and ecologically unsustainable: nearly two billion people are food insecure, and food systems are the number one contributor to climate change. While agro-industrial production is promoted as the solution to these problems, growing global "food sovereignty" movements are challenging this

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Food Sovereignty in International Context by Amy Trauger

Food sovereignty is an emerging discourse of empowerment and autonomy in the food system with the development of associated practices in rural and some urban spaces. While literature on food sovereignty has proliferated since the first usage of the term in 1996 at the Rome Food Summit, most has been descriptive

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