Reports & Briefings
We Are Not All the Same
The vision of food sovereignty calls for radical changes in “agricultural, political and social systems related to food”. These changes also entail addressing inequalities and asymmetries of power in gender relations.
Maize as sovereignty
In this conference paper, I consider some of the strengths and weaknesses of the food sovereignty (FS) approach based on my research among anti-GM activists in Colombia and Mexico.
Beyond the Minimally Adequate Diet
Re-framing food sovereignty in the urban U.S. means grappling with the messy politics of consumption in ways that put poor consumers and urban poverty at the center of our analysis.
Farmers’ Rights & Food Sovereignty
Farmers’ access to and rights over seeds are the very pillars of agriculture, and thus represent an essential component of food sovereignty.
Culturally appropriate food
One way that food sovereignty challenges conventional notions of food security is by insisting that culture is and should be part of food systems. Many definitions of food sovereignty assert a right to “culturally appropriate” food, but who decides what is culturally appropriat?
The Developmental State and Food Sovereignty in Tanzania
Tanzania has been experiencing different periods of food shortages mainly because of insufficient food production. While the country has an undisputable potential for food production, the state and its development partners such the World Bank, believe that the unsustainable peasant food production is the main cause of the food crisis.
Large-Scale Land Acquisitions and Social Conflict in Africa
As foreign governments and corporations lease and purchase large tracts of arable land across the globe, in Africa, such large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) or ‘land grabs’ have allegedly provided the grievance behind protests, riots, coups, and other conflict from Mali to Madagascar.
From Food Sovereignty to Peasants’ Rights
The transnational agrarian movement La Via Campesina is known for having successfully mobilized a human rights discourse in its struggle against capitalism and neoliberalism in agricultur.
The politics of the emerging agro-industrial complex in Asia’s ‘final frontier’
Burma's dramatic turn-around from 'axis of evil' to western darling in the past year has been imagined as Asia's 'final frontier' for global finance institutions, markets and capital.
The ‘non-economy’ and the Radical Dreams of Food Sovereignty
This article discusses the radical nature of ideas of food sovereignty through an exploration of the history of peasant dispossession under capitalism.
