Land and food sovereignty

Borras, Saturnino M.; Franco, Jennifer C.; Suárez, Sofía Monsalve

doi:10.1080/01436597.2015.1029225

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“…Dialogue around food sovereignty evolved with active participation of indigenous groups alongside a “shift in the food regime from a trade‐centered assault on small producers … to an investment‐centered assault on land users everywhere via land and green grabs” (Borras, Franco, & Suárez, ; McMichael, : 436). In the context of rising demand for raw materials and food from emergent economies, and interrelated crises in energy, agriculture, and financial capital, market deregulation encourages “land control grabs”—large‐scale acquisition of landed resources by transnational corporations and states that usurp peasant subsistence (Peluso & Lund, ).…”

Section: Neoliberalism and Peasant Environmentalismsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This dialogue led LVC to moderate its demands away from conventional chemical inputs, modified seeds, and support for industrial farming and towards native and agroecological production. Global land grabs, land financialization, and other elements of territorial restructuring have led LVC to elaborate a conception of “land sovereignty”—a fundamental, but nonexclusive, collective human right to access land as a resource and to inhabit territory, rooted in democratic and ecological principles (Borras & Franco, ; Borras et al, ; McMichael, ; Rosset, ).…”

Section: Neoliberalism and Peasant Environmentalismsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…What does the confluence between food sovereignty and the DOT make possible to do and to think? Encounters with indigenous conceptions of territory shifted the meaning of land reform within LVC from private, exclusive, individual property rights for market production to assertions of collective and ancestral claims, and a nonexclusive right to access, but not to sell, the commons, that LVC calls “land sovereignty” (Borras et al, ; McMichael, ; Rosset, ). Such encounters between peasant and indigenous paradigms continue through specific struggles against different manifestations of extractivism.…”

Section: Convergent Paradigms and The Horizons Of Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Such emphasis on indigenous land claims significantly limits the horizon of land reform, and in extreme cases may “imply an ability to exclude people who do not belong to the group” (Bryan, : 218), and thus diverges from conceptions of food or land sovereignty that emphasize universal access (Borras et al, ; McMichael, ). Consider as well Francisco Mateo's reaction to official efforts to equate territory defenders with guerrillas:

The struggle of our peoples has nothing to do with what happened in the armed conflict because in our movement there are expatrollers, exmilitary, exguerrillas, and people that didn't have anything to do with it.…”

Section: Productive Tension Between the Dot And Peasant Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Linking the defence of territory to food sovereignty: Peasant environmentalisms and extractive neoliberalism in Guatemala

Copeland

2018

Journal of Agrarian Change

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Food sovereignty and the defence of territory are increasingly influential environmental paradigms for rural social movements in opposition to free market hegemony in the global south.These paradigms propose radical alternatives to growth based economies, unequal property regimes, and the absolute territorial sovereignty of nation states. Drawing on fieldwork in rural Guatemala with progressive NGOs and social movements, this essay describes these tendencies' origins and characteristic discourses and demands, examines their links to traditional peasant politics and indigenous rights movements, and assesses their divergences, limitations, and possibilities for synergy.Building on Joan Martínez-Alier' conception of the "environmentalism of the poor", I show how these "peasant environmentalisms" converge and reinforce one another while responding to different aspects of neoliberalism's threat to lives, livelihoods, and territories during Guatemala's conflict-ridden transition to neoliberal democracy. I also discuss how their convergence has expanded thinking about territorial alternatives and suggest that holding these paradigms in tension is vital to build broad coalitions among a fragmented peasantry. I propose food sovereignty as the economic model of the plurinational state.

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Section: Neoliberalism and Peasant Environmentalismsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Neoliberalism and Peasant Environmentalismsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Convergent Paradigms and The Horizons Of Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Productive Tension Between the Dot And Peasant Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Linking the defence of territory to food sovereignty: Peasant environmentalisms and extractive neoliberalism in Guatemala

Copeland

2018

Journal of Agrarian Change

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“…In light of the global land rush and hegemony of neoliberal approaches to natural resource governance, agrarian justice movements are reviving and suggesting alternative ways of envisioning livelihoods on land (Borras, Franco, & Suárez, 2015). One such alternative approach is food sovereignty 1 which aims to restore and build peasants' control over land, as firmly expressed in the 2007 declaration of La Via Campesina, 'Our land is our identity, it is not for sale … We need to fight against all forms of expulsion of peoples from their territories and against mechanisms that favour remote, corporate or centralised control of territories … '.…”

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Land grabs, farmworkers, and rural livelihoods in West Africa: some silences in the food sovereignty discourse

Gyapong

2020

Globalizations

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The global land rush has spurred small, modest, and big anti-land grab mobilizations, notably the food sovereignty movement. The movement has been instrumental in representing the interests of small-scale family farmers whose livelihoods are threatened by capitalist control over land in the countryside. However, this dominant narrative tends to overlook or deemphasize some important diversity within the peasantry. In West Africa, anti-land grab discourses emphasize family farming as a major collective action frame, focusing less on issues related to agricultural wage labourfarmworkers' access to land, food, and decent working conditions. If food sovereignty is to fully realize its potential power as a counter-narrative to neoliberalism, and as a possible democratic alternative for working people with differentiated and at times competing socio-economic interests, then demands that adequately reflect the agrarian struggles of the rural working people have to be put onto the agenda and engaged better than it is now.

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International Organizations and Food: Nearing the End of the Lean Season?

Wolkenhauer

2021

International Organizations in Global Social Governance

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This chapter maps the field of international organizations (IOs) in food that has been institutionalized as a global policy field since WWII and has undergone several shifts since then. The chapter traces the emergence of the major IOs of the field, especially the Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Bank, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the World Food Program, and more recently also the International Labor Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund. The second half of the twentieth century began with visionary ideas about the global regulation of food production and consumption, moved to a concern with smallholders and food security, and ended with a neoliberal shift away from production toward ensuring consumption through world trade. The new millennium is marked by a rhetorical consensus between the main IOs, new debates about production, hopes in the social protection agenda, as well as increasingly vocal organized critics of the dominant order.

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Land and food sovereignty

Cited by 77 publications

References 23 publications

Linking the defence of territory to food sovereignty: Peasant environmentalisms and extractive neoliberalism in Guatemala

Linking the defence of territory to food sovereignty: Peasant environmentalisms and extractive neoliberalism in Guatemala

Land grabs, farmworkers, and rural livelihoods in West Africa: some silences in the food sovereignty discourse

International Organizations and Food: Nearing the End of the Lean Season?

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