Exploring the ‘localisation’ dimension of food sovereignty

Conceptualising components, conditions and trajectories of food sovereignty’s ‘sovereignty’

“…46 As Robbins argues, to predict a farm's ecological and social impacts requires attention not only to its scale (in terms of farm size and distribution reach), but also its method of production (on a gradient from agro-ecology to 'conventional'), and its economic character (from peasant to industrial/capitalist). 47 complicating a simple equation of local peasant farms with FS is the reality that peasants and 'local communities' are enmeshed in larger systems of economic relations, for good and ill. Many 'peasants' ensure their families' survival by seeking supplementary waged labour opportunities -sometimes on agribusiness export farmssuggesting that peasant farms are not so independent of capitalist ones (or of the non-farm economy).…”

How food-system resilience is undermined by the weather: the case of the Rama Indigenous group, Nicaragua

“…Food sovereignty has been proposed as a potential solution for communities grappling with food security inequalities, particularly those facing threats resulting from the prevailing, neoliberal, global food system. The concept is contested but can be summarized as foregrounding the rights of food producers to control the production, consumption, and sharing of their own food (Wittman et al 2011, Lang and Barling 2012, Robbins 2015, Bini 2018. Recently published research on the Rama has, however, shown the utility of the food sovereignty concept is currently limited in providing a solution for this community, largely because of the encroachment of Pacific Nicaraguans into the Rama territory (Papworth et al 2022).…”