PUBLIC POLICIES FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY
An increasing number of rural and urban-based movements are realizing some political traction in their demands for democratisation of food systems through food sovereignty. Some are pressuring to institutionalize food sovereignty principles and practices through laws, policies, and programmes. While the literature on food sovereignty continues to grow in volume and complexity, there are a number of key questions that need to be examined more deeply. These relate specifically to the processes and consequences of seeking to institutionalize food sovereignty.
The contributors to this book analyse diverse institutional processes related to food sovereignty, ranging from community-supported agriculture to food policy councils, direct democracy initiatives to constitutional amendments, the drafting of new food sovereignty laws to public procurement programmes, as well as Indigenous and youth perspectives, in a variety of contexts including Brazil, Ecuador, Spain, Switzerland, UK, Canada, USA, and Africa. Together, the contributors to this book discuss the political implications of integrating food sovereignty into existing liberal political structures and analyse the emergence of new political spaces and dynamics in response to interactions between state governance systems and social movements voicing the radical demands of food sovereignty.
Annette Aurlie Desmarais is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Human Rights, Social Justice and Food Sovereignty, University of Manitoba, Canada.
Priscilla Claeys is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR), Coventry University, UK.
Amy Trauger is Associate Professor of Geography, University of Georgia, USA.
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Public Policies for Food Sovereignty
Social Movements and the State
Edited by Annette Aurlie Desmarais, Priscilla Claeys and Amy Trauger
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Names: Desmarais, Annette Aurelie, editor. | Claeys, Priscilla, editor. | Trauger, Amy, editor.
Title: Public policies for food sovereignty : social movements and the state / edited by Annette Desmarais, Priscilla Claeys and Amy Trauger.
Description: New York : Routledge, [2017]
Identifiers: LCCN 2017011435 | ISBN 9781138240957 (hardback) | ISBN 9781138240964 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781315281810 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Food sovereignty. | Food supply--Government policy.
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Joseba Azkarraga Etxagibel (PhD in Sociology) teaches in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). His main research interests have focused on analysing the social and solidarity economy. He received the Basque Social Reality Research Award from the Basque Government for his research on the Mondragon cooperatives. Currently he is interested in food sovereignty and, more generally, in the cultural transformations involved in socio-ecological transitions.
Priscilla Claeys is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR), Coventry University. She received her PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the University of Louvain (UCL). She worked as a Special Advisor to the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, from 2008 to 2014. Her latest book is: Human Rights and the Food Sovereignty Movement. Reclaiming Control (Routledge 2015).
Bryan Dale is a PhD candidate in Human Geography at the University of Toronto. His research looks at the connections between food sovereignty, agroecology, and climate change. While his Masters research analysed La Via Campesinas international organizing on these issues, his doctoral work focuses on the Canadian context.
Annette Aurlie Desmarais is Canada Research Chair in Human Rights, Social Justice and Food Sovereignty at the University of Manitoba. She is the author of La Va Campesina: Globalization and the Power of Peasants (2007) and co-editor of Food Sovereignty: Reconnecting Food, Nature and Community (2010) and Food Sovereignty in Canada: Creating Just and Sustainable Food Systems (2011).
Ana Moragues-Faus is a research fellow in the School of Geography and Planning at Cardiff University (UK). Her research interests revolve around sustainable development, food security, food sovereignty, justice, governance, and political ecology. She investigates these topics through participatory action research processes with civil society organizations that strive for food system transformation.
