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Food Sovereignty in International Context: Discourse, politics and practice of place book cover

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Food Sovereignty in International Context Discourse, politics and practice of place

Edited By Amy Trauger Copyright 2015
248 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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 rather than explanatory in nature, and often confuses food sovereignty with other... Read more

1. Putting Food Sovereignty in Place 

Amy Trauger 

Part 1: Discourse 

2. Where are the Local Communities? Food Sovereignty Discourses on International Agrobiodiversity Conservation Strategies 

Claudio Brenni 

3. Farmers, Foodies and First Nations: Getting to Food Sovereignty in Canada? 

Annette Aurélie Desmarais and Hannah Wittman 

4. Food Sovereignty in the Global North: The Application of a Social Justice Framework for a Common Language and Approach 

Alanna Higgins 

5. Framing Food Provisioning Research in the UK: Whither Food Sovereignty? 

Carol Morris, Susanne Seymour and Adam Spencer 

Part 2: Politics 

6. Food Security, Food Sovereignty, and the Nation-state: Historicizing Norwegian Farmland Policy 

Heidi Vinge 

7. Repositioning Food Sovereignty: Between Ecuadorian Nationalist and Cosmopolitan Politics 

Alberto Arce, Stephen Sherwood and Myriam Paredes 

8. Seed Sovereignty as Civil Disobedience in Northern India? 

Amy Trauger 

9. Talking Around TT: Food Sovereignty as Unifying Discourse in the Southern Alberta Food System 

Trina Filan 

Part 3: Practice 

10. Framing Multiple Food Sovereignties: Comparing the Nyéléni Declaration and the Local Food and Self-Governance Ordinance in Maine 

Hilda E. Kurtz 

11. Gender, Food Sovereignty and Agrarian Reforms 

Susie Jacobs 

12. Food Sovereignty in the Fields: Seed Exchange and Participatory Plant Breeding of Wheat Landraces in Italy 

Elisa Da Vià 

13. When Global goes Sweet, Locals turn Sour: Wine Sovereignty in Switzerland 

Melaine Laesslé

Biography

Amy Trauger is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Georgia, Athens, USA.

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