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Sovereignties of Food: Political Struggle and Life-World Encounters in Southeast Asia - Christiane Voßemer, Judith Ehlert, Michelle Proyer, & Ralph Guth. - Food Sovereignty and Conceptualization of Agency: A Methodological Discussion - Judith Ehlert & Christiane Voßemer, S. 7-26, Abstract: The latest food crisis hit food producers and consumers - mainly in the Global South - hard and refocused attention to the question of global food security. The food sovereignty movement contributes to the growing re-politicization of the debate on 'how to feed the world'. From an actor-oriented perspective, the article presents a methodological reflection of the concept of food sovereignty in opposition to the concept of food security, both agendas highly relevant in terms of food policies in Southeast Asia. After framing the two concepts against the development politics and emergence of global agriculture following World War II, this paper elaborates on how actors and agency are conceptualized under the food security regime as well as by the food sovereignty movement itself. With reference to these two concepts, we discuss in which ways an actor-oriented methodological approach is useful to overcome the observed essentialization of the peasantry as well as the neglect of individual peasants and consumers as food-sovereign actors. (ASEAS/GIGA). - Where Peasants Are Kings: Food Sovereignty in the Tagbanua Traditional Subsistence System - Sophia M. M. Cuevas, Juan E. C. Fernandez, & Imelda DG. Olvida, S. 27-44, Abstract: Food sovereignty is predicated upon the rights of communities to determine culturally meaningful methods of agricultural cultivation in order to ensure the security of their diets and their lifeworld. The article provides an ethnographic study of two Tagbanua indigenous communities in the province of Palawan, Philippines, and analyzes the relation between swidden agriculture and food sovereignty. Traditional swidden farming is an integrative system that defines social relationships, structures a spiritual belief system, and builds a fundament of the Tagbanua identity. As a cultural praxis, it is also central to the manifestation of food sovereignty within the market system, constantly being challenged by internal exigencies - as opportunities for cultural reproduction are limited by changing lifestyles - and external interventions from both private and public sectors. The article discusses how the Tagbanua subsistence cultivation system serves as the main mechanism through which indigenous cultural communities assert their independence from the market system, thus establishing local control over food and food production systems. (ASEAS/GIGA)

__Abstract__ When Food First founded its educational travel program Food Sovereignty Tours in 2010, it had already organized dozens of trips to destinations like Cuba and Kerala, India—places that had carried out radical reforms to greatly improve literacy rates, access to healthcare and other socioeconomic indicators. While the Cold War mentality of the 1980s and neoliberal triumphalism of the 1990s sought to convince us that there was "no alternative" to corporate-led globalization, Food First's many publications showed how this model was failing most of humanity… and its delegations brought participants to the frontlines of people's struggles for democratic, locally-controlled alternatives.

Most (if not all) people in Ireland are noticing rising food prices, which come on top of (and are connected to) the sharp rise in energy bills. Russia's invasion of Ukraine is one immediate factor, because it looks like the conflict will reduce Russian and Ukrainian food and fertilizer exports. Then there are the ongoing […]

National audience ; Food sovereignty is the right for people to decide about their own strategies and policies to guarantee their food safety while considering the effects on others. Through food choices as well as agricultural or trade policies, it guarantees access to healthy and sustainable food. It is a global concept within which social aspects, economy, politics and the environment are closely intertwined. ; La souveraineté alimentaire est un droit des populations à décider de leurs propres stratégies et politiques pour garantir leur sécurité alimentaire tout en considérant les effets sur les autres. Elle garantit, par le biais de choix d'alimentation mais aussi de politiques agricoles ou commerciales, l'accès à une alimentation saine et durable. Il s'agit d'un concept global où social, économie, politique et environnement sont étroitement mêlés.

An import-driven focus on food security that is based on technological packages for industrializing agriculture and food systems severely limits rural development policy options. The challenges this poses to food sovereignty include trade rules balanced against developing countries, cooption and loss of local technologies and resources, and the failure of trade-based models to account appropriately for depletion of natural capital. (View). Adapted from the source document.

We propose that agroecology provides a framework for understanding 'levels' for the transition to sustainable food systems. If we agree that agroecology includes social and political dimensions of governing territorial food systems, then it must be linked to movements for food sovereignty. However, the concentration of power in food and farming systems locks in industrial logic, posing immense barriers to agroecological and social transition. This creates a tension between efforts at convergence of food system innovations from below, versus co-optation of grass-roots language and practices by private and public actors who are committed not to changing the logic of industrial agriculture, but instead to reducing its harm. We suggest agroecological and food sovereignty movements consciously embrace this tension as a dance of creativity and appropriation. If this dance can be made generative rather than deadly, it can open pathways for transition to new ways of seeing, experiencing, and getting food. ; International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (iPES Food)

"This book focuses on the relationship between food sovereignty and land grabbing. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the book deals with various aspects concerning the rush for land, and the subsequent popular and indigenous resistance in different parts of the world."

- This paper examines the conditions under which the two strategic concepts of "multi-functionality" and "food sovereignty" have emerged, refocusing the development narrative toward a politics of sustainability. Both multi-functionality and food sovereignty represent sustainable alternatives to neo-liberal political economy. The author argues about the necessity of a paradigmatic shift regarding the meaning of human development in order to revalue food and agriculture as foundations of civilization, in the epistemological sense, and as vectors both of social and ecological sustainability and of public health.Key words: multi-functionality; food sovereignty; food regime; sustainability; food regime transition.

Alexandra Fay (UCLA School of Law) has posted True Co-management: Critical Approaches to Indigenous Food Sovereignty (41 Yale Law & Policy Review 233 (2023)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Note examines the Inuit Circumpolar Council Alaska's project to...