La Via Campesina
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La Via Campesina
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Author : Annette Aurelie Desmarais
language : en
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Release Date : 2007-06-20
La Via Campesina written by Annette Aurelie Desmarais and has been published by Pluto Press (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-20 with Business & Economics categories.
Lively account of how people power has shaped British history -- from Peterloo to the Poll tax and beyond.
La Va Campesina Globalization And The Power Of Peasants
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Author : Annette Aurlie Desmarais
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-01-01
La Va Campesina Globalization And The Power Of Peasants written by Annette Aurlie Desmarais and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with categories.
La Via Campesina is one of the world s largest and most important transnational social movements. Formed in 1993, it brings together rural women, peasants, indigenous communities, small-scale farmers and farm workers from around the world. Comprising millions of people, it is a leading force against the globalization of a neoliberal and corporate-led model of agriculture.// This book explores the movement from the inside. Annette Aurelie Desmarais, a former grain farmer and long time participant in La Via Campesina shows how peasants and small-scale farmers have found the strength to challenge multinational agribusiness corporations and international institutions whose power and influence increasingly dictate government policy. This book accompanies La Via Campesina in a struggle to keep people on the land, producing food and culture, and building viable communities.// Annette Aurelie Desmarais was a grain farmer for 13 years, during which time she was an active member of La Via Campesina. She is now Assistant Professor in the Department of Justice Studies at the University of Regina, Canada.
Peasants Negotiating A Global Policy Space
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Author : Ingeborg Gaarde
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-02-24
Peasants Negotiating A Global Policy Space written by Ingeborg Gaarde and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-24 with Nature categories.
4 Conclusion -- Notes -- 6. Building outwards by looking inwards -- 1 Internal democracy -- 2 Linking global policy arenas and peoples' struggles -- 3 Between political imagination and practical limitations -- 4 Beyond dichotomies -- 5 Conclusion -- Notes -- 7. Main tensions and debates: Strategic engagement with others -- 1 Alliance building and autonomy -- 3 Towards the implementation of political visions -- 4 NGO and academics: tensions and collaborations -- 5 Permanent challenges -- 6 Conclusion -- Notes -- Final conclusions and perspectives: Peasants' agency in the global age -- 1 Towards a more dynamic approach to analysing global movements -- 2 Towards more inclusive global food governance -- 3 Building convergences and synergies -- Notes -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Bibliography -- Index.
The Struggle For Food Sovereignty
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Author : Rémy Herrera
language : en
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Release Date : 2015
The Struggle For Food Sovereignty written by Rémy Herrera and has been published by Pluto Press (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with POLITICAL SCIENCE categories.
Family agricultures play a crucial role in feeding the world, but they are increasingly threatened by corporate interests. For this book, the World Forum for Alternatives has brought together expert contributors from around the globe, including Samir Amin, Sam Moyo, Joao Pedro Stedile and Utsa Patnaik, to shed light on the revival of peasant struggles for social emancipation, and for meaningful access to land and food. With chapters on Latin America, Southern Africa, China, India, the South Pacific, and Europe, this volume brings a truly global perspective to this urgent issue - and offers radical new solutions. Ultimately, the authors show, the various struggles for food sovereignty taking place today in different parts of the world must unite and share a common vision for the future.
We Want Land To Live
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Author : Amy Trauger
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2017-03-01
We Want Land To Live written by Amy Trauger and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-01 with Social Science categories.
We Want Land to Live explores the current boundaries of radical approaches to food sovereignty. First coined by La Via Campesina (a global movement whose name means “the peasant’s way”), food sovereignty is a concept that expresses the universal right to food. Amy Trauger uses research combining ethnography, participant observation, field notes, and interviews to help us understand the material and definitional struggles surrounding the decommodification of food and the transformation of the global food system’s political-economic foundations. Trauger’s work is the first of its kind to analytically and coherently link a dialogue on food sovereignty with case studies illustrating the spatial and territorial strategies by which the movement fosters its life in the margins of the corporate food regime. She discusses community gardeners in Portugal; small-scale, independent farmers in Maine; Native American wild rice gatherers in Minnesota; seed library supporters in Pennsylvania; and permaculturists in Georgia. The problem in the food system, as the activists profiled here see it, is not markets or the role of governance but that the right to food is conditioned by what the state and corporations deem to be safe, legal, and profitable—and not by what eaters think is right in terms of their health, the environment, or their communities. Useful for classes on food studies and active food movements alike, We Want Land to Live makes food sovereignty issues real as it illustrates a range of methodological alternatives that are consistent with its discourse: direct action (rather than charity, market creation, or policy changes), civil disobedience (rather than compliance with discriminatory laws), and mutual aid (rather than reliance on top-down aid).
Human Rights And The Food Sovereignty Movement
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Author : Priscilla Claeys
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-01-09
Human Rights And The Food Sovereignty Movement written by Priscilla Claeys and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-09 with Nature categories.
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 alternative development paradigm but also of an alternative conception of human rights. 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. The book shows that, to inject subversive potential in their rights-based claims rural social activists developed an alternative conception of rights, that is more plural, less statist, less individualistic, and more multi-cultural than dominant conceptions of human rights. Further, they deployed a combination of institutional (from above) and extrainstitutional (from below) strategies to demand new rights and reinforce grassroots mobilization through rights.
Campesino A Campesino
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Author : Eric Holt-Giménez
language : en
Publisher: Food First Books
Release Date : 2006
Campesino A Campesino written by Eric Holt-Giménez and has been published by Food First Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Nature categories.
Campesino a Campesino tells the inspiring story of a true grassroots movement: poor peasant farmers teaching one another how to protect their environment while still earning a living. The first book in English about the farmer-led sustainable agriculture movement in Latin America, Campesino a Campesino includes lots of first-person stories and commentary from the farmer-teachers, mixing personal accounts with detailed analysis of the political, socioeconomic, and ecological factors that galvanized the movement. Campesino farmer leading a farmer to farmer training session in Mexico by Eric Holt-GimenezMany years ago, author Eric Holt-Gim�nez was a volunteer trying to teach sustainable agriculture techniques in the dusty highlands of central Mexico, with little success. Near the end of his tenure, he invited a group of visiting Guatemalan farmers to teach a course in his village. What he saw was like nothing he had known. The Guatemalans used parables, stories, and humor to present agricultural improvement to their Mexican compadres as a logical outcome of clear thinking and compassion; love of farming, of family, of nature, and of community. Rather than try to convince the Mexicans of their innovations, they insisted they experiment new things on a small scale first to see how well they worked. And they saw themselves as students, respecting the Mexicans' deep, lifelong knowledge of their own particular land and climate. All they asked in return was that the Mexicans turn around and share their new knowledge with others--which they did. CAC campo3_photo by Food FirstThis exchange was typical of a grassroots movement called Campesino a Campesino, or Farmer to Farmer, which has grown up in southern Mexico and war-torn Central America over the last three decades. In the book Campesino a Campesino, Holt-Gim�nez writes the first history of the movement, describing the social, political, economic, and environmental circumstances that shape it. The voices and stories of dozens of farmers in the movement are captured, bringing to vivid life this hopeful story of peasant farmers helping one another to farm sustainably, protecting their land, their environment, and their families' future.
Justice And Food Security In A Changing Climate
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Author : European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics. Congress
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Justice And Food Security In A Changing Climate written by European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics. Congress and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Science categories.
The UN's Sustainable Development Goals saw the global community agree to end hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. However, the number of chronically undernourished people is increasing continuously. Ongoing climate change and the action needed to adapt to it are very likely to aggravate this situation by limiting agricultural land and water resources and changing environmental conditions for food production. Climate change and the actions it requires raise questions of justice, especially regarding food security. These key concerns of ethics and justice for food security due to climate change challenges are the focus of this book, which brings together work by scholars from a wide range of disciplines and a multitude of perspectives. These experts discuss the challenges to food security posed by mitigation, geoengineering, and adaptation measures that tackle the impacts of climate change. Others address the consequences of a changing climate for agriculture and food production and how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected food security and animal welfare.
Transition To Agro Ecology
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Author : Jelleke de Nooy van Tol
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2016-09-29
Transition To Agro Ecology written by Jelleke de Nooy van Tol and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-29 with Philosophy categories.
Our global agricultural and food system is broken and needs to transition to one that is more sustainable and beneficial to the worlds population. This seems hard in the face of the linked challenges of climate change, natural resource depletion, and worldwide economic and social upheaval. At the same time, farmer-led social movements are growing, and there is increasing recognition that agroecology and food sovereignty are key solutions for both nutritious food security and climate change adaptation. This book takes you along in the transition to agroecology, which is already happening, worldwide! The author shows us the as of yet dispersed but growing movement of many smallholder farmers, projects, programs, research, and policy agendas that are making the change. Since the daily news prevents us from noticing, Jelleke shows us the most beautiful and intriguing examples of ground-breaking people and projects. She gives you the keys for transition. She makes us look back from 2030. What have we done by thenyou and I, your friends and colleagues, investors and politiciansto have arrived in a changed food-secure world where agroecology is the new normal? This book is a must-read for researchers, politicians, students, and consumers alike.
Food Sovereignty
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Author : Annette Aurélie Desmarais
language : en
Publisher: Fahamu Books
Release Date : 2011-03-31
Food Sovereignty written by Annette Aurélie Desmarais and has been published by Fahamu Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-31 with Social Science categories.
With increasing hunger globally, people are resisting the industrialised food system and returning control to small farmers. This radical food sovereignty movement leads to increased production, safe food and agricultural practices that respect the earth.