Public Policies for Food Sovereignty (eBook, PDF)

Social Movements and the State
Redaktion: Desmarais, Annette Aurelie; Trauger, Amy; Claeys, Priscilla

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Produktbeschreibung

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 and complexity, there are a number of key questions that need to be examined more deeply. These relate specifically to the processes and consequences of seeking to institutionalize food sovereignty: What dimensions of food sovereignty are addressed in public policies and which are left out? What are the tensions, losses and gains for social movements engaging with sub-national and national governments? How can local governments be leveraged to build autonomous spaces against state and corporate power?

The contributors to this book analyze diverse institutional processes related to food sovereignty, ranging from community-supported agriculture to food policy councils, direct democracy initiatives to constitutional amendments, the drafting of new food sovereignty laws to public procurement programmes, as well as Indigenous and youth perspectives, in a variety of contexts including Brazil, Ecuador, Spain, Switzerland, UK, Canada, USA, and Africa. Together, the contributors to this book discuss the political implications of integrating food sovereignty into existing liberal political structures, and analyze the emergence of new political spaces and dynamics in response to interactions between state governance systems and social movements voicing the radical demands of food sovereignty.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315281803
• Artikelnr.: 49376494

Autorenporträt

Annette Aurelie Desmarais is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Human Rights, Social Justice and Food Sovereignty, University of Manitoba, Canada. Priscilla Claeys is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR), Coventry University, UK. Amy Trauger is Associate Professor of Geography, University of Georgia, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: Will the Revolution be Institutionalized? Part I States,
Institutions and Food Sovereignty 2 State-Led Grassroots Participation and
Ecuador's Land Law 3 Exporting Zero Hunger: PAA Africa and the
Possibilities of Food Sovereignty with South-South Cooperation 4
Community-Based Rights to Food Sovereignty: The case of the Local Food and
Community Self-Governance Ordinances in Maine, USA Part II Power and
Politics -- Social Movement Challenges to Institutionalizing Food
Sovereignty 5 Institutionalizing Relational Sovereignties- Educational and
Food Sovereignty within Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement 6 The
Involvement of Community Supported Agriculture Networks in a Swiss Popular
Initiative for Food Sovereignty 7 The Role of Land Rights in Social
Transformation: Stories from Boston and Philadelphia 8 Food Sovereignty
Struggles in Quebec: Co-optation and Resistance Part III Determining the
Rules of Engagement -- Challenges Within Social Movements 9 Urban Food
Policy Alliances as Paths to Food Sovereignty? Insights from Sustainable
Food Cities in the UK 10 Understanding food sovereignty in Canada: Settler
Colonialism and Indigenous-settler Alliances 11 Autonomy,
Coalition-building, and Cultural Survival: Towards Food Sovereignty in the
U.S. South 12 Youth Producing Food for an Alternative Society: Insights
from the Basque Country