Food sovereignty is often presented as a panacea. Although the concept has been incorporated into local discourse, in practice it is elusive. It is also inextricably linked with larger global financial and governance structures, energy use and inequality that are extremely difficult to locate and to challenge, especially for local farmers.
Food sovereignty is often presented as a panacea. In this paper I am showing that although the concept has been incorporated into local discourse, in practice it is elusive. It is also inextricably linked with larger global financial and governance structures, energy use and inequality that are extremely difficult to locate and to challenge, especially for local farmers.
Senior Researcher, LAIOS, CNRS/EHESS, Paris. Birgit Müller holds a PhD from Cambridge (1986). Her current research explores global governance of food and agriculture at the FAO and agricultural practices of farmers in Canada and Nicaragua. She examines links between agricultural practice, political worldviews and structures of power and global agricultural policies. Among her books: The Gloss of Harmony. The politics of policy making in multilateral organisations (2013).
Food Sovereignty: a critical dialogue, 14 - 15 September, New Haven.
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