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1st Edition

Food Sovereignty Convergence and Contradictions, Condition and Challenges

Edited By Eric Holt-Gimenez, Alberto Alonso-Fradejas, Todd Holmes, Martha Jane Robbins Copyright 2017
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge
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A fundamentally contested concept, food sovereignty (FS) has – as a political project and campaign, an alternative, a social movement and an analytical framework – barged into global discourses, both political and academic, over the past two decades. This collection identifies a number of key questions regarding FS. What does (re)localisation mean? How does the notion of FS connect with similar... Read more
  1. Food sovereignty: convergence and contradictions, conditions and challenges
    Alberto Alonso-Fradejas, Saturnino M. Borras Jr, Todd Holmes, Eric Holt-Gimenez and Martha Jane Robbins

  2. Exploring the ‘localisation’ dimension of food sovereignty
    Martha Jane Robbins

  3. Food sovereignty, food security and fair trade: the case of an influential Nicaraguan smallholder cooperative
    Christopher M. Bacon

  4. Food sovereignty and the quinoa boom: challenges to sustainable re-peasantisation in the southern Altiplano of Bolivia.

    5. Tanya M. Kerssen

  5. Food sovereignty as praxis: rethinking the food question in Uganda
    Giuliano Martiniello

  6. Challenges for food sovereignty policy making: the case of Nicaragua’s Law 693
    Wendy Godek

  7. Operationalising food sovereignty through an investment lens: how agro-ecology is putting ‘big push theory’ back on the table
    Louis Thiemann

  8. Accelerating towards food sovereignty
    A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi

  9. We are not all the same: taking gender seriously in food sovereignty discourse
    Clara Mi Young Park, Ben White and Julia

  10. Land and food sovereignty
    Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Jennifer C. Franco and Sofía Monsalve Suárez

  11. Contextualising food sovereignty: the politics of convergence among movements in the USA
    Zoe W. Brent, Christina M. Schiavoni and Alberto Alonso-Fradejas

Biography

Eric Holt-Giménez has been Executive Director of Food First since 2006. He is the editor of many academic, magazine and news articles, and lectures internationally on hunger and food system transformation.

Alberto Alonso-Fradejas is a PhD Candidate at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in the Netherlands, a researcher at the Transnational Institute (TNI), and a Fellow of the Guatemalan Institute of Agrarian and Rural Studies (IDEAR).

Todd Holmes is a postdoctoral fellow with the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University. He earned his PhD in history at Yale University, where for four years he served as the Program Coordinator for the Yale Agrarian Studies Program.

Martha Jane Robbins is a PhD Researcher at ISS in the Netherlands and holds a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship.

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