Land and food sovereignty

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

doi:10.4324/9781315227580-10

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“…Land use and land‐user rights are couched in the heart of the food sovereignty project (Borras et al ., ). The vision draws from principles that guarantee small‐scale producers full rights to land, achieved through genuine and redistributive ‘integral agrarian reform’ that ensures respect for local autonomy for decision‐making and a participatory food governance system (McMichael, ).…”

Section: The Narrative Storylines Of Myanmar Grassroot Ngosmentioning

confidence: 97%

How do grassroot NGOs in rural Myanmar express their visions for the food system? Food security and food sovereignty as entangled narratives within NGO struggles and strategies

Elkharouf

Pritchard

2019

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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Recent research has promoted the idea that political struggles over food systems can be understood through the concepts of food security (the right to access food) and food sovereignty (the right to exercise control over food systems). These concepts emphasise different political priorities in the social relations of food: for the former, the promotion of decent work and the strengthening of the social safety net to enhance people's abilities to put food on their plates; for the latter, the defence of land, water and resource rights, to underpin capabilities for food own-provisioning. The question we pose in this paper is how these priorities are articulated by grassroots non-government organisations working at the frontline of global food poverty? Interviews with 22 representatives of food-related non-government organisations in Myanmar were used to elicit narratives about how they understood their challenges. The paper finds that narratives did not cohere exclusively to either the food security or food sovereignty concept, but blended ideas associated with the political priorities of both in complex and contradictory ways. These insights lend important firsthand evidence to the argument that supports a multi-dimensional framing of the politics of food that is inclusive of the diverse struggles highlighted by food security and food sovereignty concepts. the right to have regular, permanent and unrestricted access, either directly or by means of financial purchases, to quantitatively and qualitatively adequate and sufficient food corresponding to the cultural traditions of the people to which the consumer belongs, and which ensure a physical and mental, individual and collective, fulfilling and dignified life free of fear.

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Section: The Narrative Storylines Of Myanmar Grassroot Ngosmentioning

confidence: 97%

How do grassroot NGOs in rural Myanmar express their visions for the food system? Food security and food sovereignty as entangled narratives within NGO struggles and strategies

Elkharouf

Pritchard

2019

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“…water quality or toxic waste) but within the context of economic, ecological and cultural differences (Escobar, 2006). Using multiscalar, historically informed and culturally sensitive power analysis, PE research on conflicts has tackled key themes in food studies such as access to land (Borras et al, 2010(Borras et al, , 2015, struggles over local seed varieties preservation and use (Mullaney, 2014;Watts and Scales, 2015), technological changes (Shiva, 1991)and the impact of policies and regulations such as trade liberalisation (Grossman, 1993). Political ecology has also been preoccupied with the actors involved in those conflicts, and since its origins, special attention has been paid to peasant struggles (Blaikie and Brookfield, 1987;Watts, 1983),with PE playing an increasing role in academic works about la Via Campesina (the global peasant movement) and the broader food sovereignty movement (see for example (Bernstein, 2013;Karriem, 2009;Oliveira and Hecht, 2016)).…”

Section: A) Critique Through a Historical And Multi-scalar Analysis Omentioning

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The political ecology of food: Carving ‘spaces of possibility’ in a new research agenda

Moragues‐Faus

Marsden

2017

Journal of Rural Studies

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In times of austerity and global environmental change, recent crises related to food (in)securities and (un)sustainabilities urge us to reposition agri-food research. We argue that there is an opportunity to develop a more critical food scholarship by explicitly integrating political ecology approaches. For this purpose, the paper outlines major elements in the extensive political ecology scholarship to guide a critical review of some central trends in food research, as well as considering the contribution to date of food studies to political ecology perspectives. This exercise allows us to identify key avenues of convergence between food studies and political ecology frameworks that constitute three conceptual building blocks of a revised critical food scholarship: understanding place-based socio-natures; addressing the politics of scale and inequality; and coproducing knowledge and change. These coordinates are used to analyse two emergent potential spaces of possibility, embodied in the emergence of cities as food policy actors and the rise of the Food Sovereignty movement. We conclude by exploring how a critical food scholarship could inform an inclusive reframing to produce the grounds of possibility for a more socially and ecologically diverse food system.

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“…Sustainable resource use and governance demand a series of collective tasks, such as good stewardship, developing novel farming systems, recycling and cleaning waters, and undertaking measures to recover and gain new arable land. Land and water resources, however, are limited, calling for major redistributive measures that will find fierce opposition, in terms of land reform (Borras, Franco, and Suárez 2015;Rosset 2009) and new water governance rules (Kallhoff 2014). The production of sufficient food for growing populations requires a systematic recovery of degraded agricultural land, the development of new areas by expanding coastal landfills and irrigating land in deserts, and reducing land-use changes in peri-urban areas.…”

Section: Fourth Demand: Right To Access and Control The Means Of Prodmentioning

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Food sovereignty and consumer sovereignty: Two antagonistic goals?

Timmermann

Félix

Tittonell

2017

Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

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The concept of food sovereignty is becoming an element of everyday parlance in development politics and food justice advocacy. Yet to successfully achieve food sovereignty, the demands within this movement have to be compatible with the way people are pursuing consumer sovereignty and vice versa. The aim of this article is to examine the different sets of demands that the two ideals of sovereignty bring about, analyze in how far these different demands can stand in constructive relations with each other, and explain why consumers have to adjust their food choices to seasonal production variability to promote food sovereignty and so secure future autonomy.

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Land and food sovereignty

Cited by 14 publications

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How do grassroot NGOs in rural Myanmar express their visions for the food system? Food security and food sovereignty as entangled narratives within NGO struggles and strategies

How do grassroot NGOs in rural Myanmar express their visions for the food system? Food security and food sovereignty as entangled narratives within NGO struggles and strategies

The political ecology of food: Carving ‘spaces of possibility’ in a new research agenda

Food sovereignty and consumer sovereignty: Two antagonistic goals?

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