Globalization and Food Sovereignty : Global and Local Change in the New Politics of Food

With perspectives drawn from Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australia, __Globalization and Food Sovereignty__ is the first comparative collection to focus on food sovereignty activism worldwide. Contents Contributors Acknowledgments GLOBALIZATION AND FOOD SOVEREIGNTY. Global and Local Change in the New Politics of Food Introduction: Crisis and Contention in the New Politics of Food Part One: Food Sovereignty in Theory and Policy Debates 1. Food Sovereignty and Globalization: Lines of Inquiry 2. The Territory of Self-Determination: Social Reproduction, Agro-Ecology, and the Role of the State 3. Exploring the Limits of Fair Trade: The Local Food Movement in the Context of Late Capitalism 4. Local Food: Food Sovereignty or Myth of Alternative Consumer Sovereignty? Part Two: Food Sovereignty in Comparative Perspective 5. Citizen-Farmers: The Possibilities and the Limits of Australia’s Emerging Alternative Food Networks 6. From Food Security to Food Sovereignty in Canada: Resistance and Authority in the Context of Neoliberalism 7. Food Sovereignty in Practice: A Study of Farmer-Led Sustainable Agriculture in the Philippines 8. Free Markets for All: Transition Economies and the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy Part Three: Food Sovereignty in Contentious Politics 9. Feminist Political Ecology and La Vía Campesina’s Struggle for Food Sovereignty through the Experience of the Escola Latino-Americana de Agroecologia (ELAA) 10. Food Sovereignty, Trade Rules, and the Struggle to Know the Origins of Food 11. Food Sovereignty as Localized Resistance to Globalization in France and the United States Conclusion: The Food Sovereignty Lens Index

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 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.

With perspectives drawn from Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australia, Globalization and Food Sovereignty is the first comparative collection to focus on food sovereignty activism worldwide.

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 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.With perspectives drawn from Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australia, Globalization and Food Sovereignty is the first comparative collection to focus on food sovereignty activism worldwide.