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Our global food system is undergoing rapid change. Since the global food crisis of 2007-2008, a range of new issues have come to public attention, such as land grabbing, food prices volatility, agrofuels and climate change. Peasant social movements are trying to respond to these challenges by organizing from the local to the global to demand food sovereignty. As the transnational agrarian movement La Via Campesina celebrates its 20th anniversary, this book takes stock of the movement's achievements and reflects on challenges for the future. It provides an in-depth analysis of the movement's vi

"The book assesses efforts to achieve the international recognition of new human rights for peasants at the international level, namely the 'right to food sovereignty' and 'peasants' rights'. It explores why La Via Campesina was successful in mobilizing a human rights discourse in its struggle against neoliberalism, and also the limitations and potential pitfalls of using the human rights framework"--

This article analyses the creation of new human rights by a contemporary transnational agrarian movement, Vía Campesina. It makes the case that the movement's assertion of new rights contributes to shaping a cosmopolitan, multicultural, and anti-hegemonic conception of human rights. It discusses the advantages and constraints of the human rights framework and analyses the creation of new rights by the movement as a way to overcome the limitations of the 'rights master frame'. It concludes with a discussion of some of the challenges involved in the institutionalization of new rights.

This article examines new multilateral food and agriculture development programs implemented in response to the 2008 Global Food Crisis. These programs, which seek to increase agricultural investment and production in developing countries, have gained wide currency among donors, recipient governments and multilateral organizations. Given the significant financial and political resources committed to their success, these new multilateral food and agriculture programs point to a new global food security policy consensus. By examining two of the key World Bank and EU programs prioritizing the integration of small-scale and peasant farmers into commodity chains, we argue that they fail to adequately address the obstacles poor farmers themselves have identified as critical to improving their food security and livelihoods. ; Cet article examine les nouveaux programmes multilatéraux de développement mis en œuvre en réponse à la crise alimentaire mondiale de 2008. Ces programmes, qui visent à accroître les investissements et la production agricole dans les pays en développement, ont emporté l'adhésion des donateurs, des gouvernements bénéficiaires et des organisations multilatérales. Compte tenu des ressources financières et politiques importantes mises en oeuvre, ces programmes alimentaires et agricoles indiquent l'émergence d'un nouveau consensus politique sur la sécurité alimentaire mondiale. En examinant deux des principaux programmes de la Banque mondiale et de l'UE donnant la priorité à l'intégration des petits agriculteurs et des paysans dans les chaînes alimentaires, nous défendons l'idée que ces programmes ne constituent pas une réponse adéquate aux obstacles identifiés par les petits agriculteurs eux-mêmes pour améliorer leur sécurité alimentaire et moyens de subsistance.

This article examines new multilateral food and agriculture development programs implemented in response to the 2008 Global Food Crisis. These programs, which seek to increase agricultural investment and production in developing countries, have gained wide currency among donors, recipient governments and multilateral organizations. Given the significant financial and political resources committed to their success, these new multilateral food and agriculture programs point to a new global food security policy consensus. By examining two of the key World Bank and EU programs prioritizing the integration of small-scale and peasant farmers into commodity chains, we argue that they fail to adequately address the obstacles poor farmers themselves have identified as critical to improving their food security and livelihoods. ; Cet article examine les nouveaux programmes multilatéraux de développement mis en œuvre en réponse à la crise alimentaire mondiale de 2008. Ces programmes, qui visent à accroître les investissements et la production agricole dans les pays en développement, ont emporté l'adhésion des donateurs, des gouvernements bénéficiaires et des organisations multilatérales. Compte tenu des ressources financières et politiques importantes mises en oeuvre, ces programmes alimentaires et agricoles indiquent l'émergence d'un nouveau consensus politique sur la sécurité alimentaire mondiale. En examinant deux des principaux programmes de la Banque mondiale et de l'UE donnant la priorité à l'intégration des petits agriculteurs et des paysans dans les chaînes alimentaires, nous défendons l'idée que ces programmes ne constituent pas une réponse adéquate aux obstacles identifiés par les petits agriculteurs eux-mêmes pour améliorer leur sécurité alimentaire et moyens de subsistance.

Introduction: will the revolution be institutionalized? / Amy Trauger, Priscilla Claeys and Annette Aurélie Desmarais -- States, institutions and food sovereignty -- State-led grassroots participation and Ecuador's land law / Karla Peña -- Exporting zero hunger : PAA Africa and the possibilities of food sovereignty with South-South cooperation / Ryan Nehring and Mariana Hoffmann -- Community-based rights to food sovereignty : the case of the local food and community self-governance ordinances in Maine, USA / Amy Trauger -- Power and politics : social movement challenges to institutionalizing food sovereignty -- Institutionalizing relational sovereignties- educational and food sovereignty within Brazil's landless workers' movement / David Meek -- The involvement of community supported agriculture networks in a Swiss popular initiative for food sovereignty / Julien Vuilleumier -- The role of land rights in social transformation : stories from Boston and Philadelphia / Caitlin Hachmyer -- Food sovereignty struggles in Quebec : co-optation and resistance / Bryan Dale -- Determining the rules of engagement -- challenges within social movements -- Urban food policy alliances as paths to food sovereignty? : insights from sustainable food cities in the UK / Ana Moragues-Faus -- Understanding food sovereignty in Canada : settler colonialism and indigenous-settler alliances / Lauren Kepkiewicz -- Autonomy, coalition-building, and cultural survival : towards food sovereignty in the U.S. south / Catarina Passidomo and Irene Van Riper -- Youth producing food for an alternative society : insights from the Basque country / Joseba Azkarraga Etxagibel and Annette Aurélie Desmarais

"An increasing number of rural and urban-based movements are realizing some political traction in their demands for democratization of food systems through? food sovereignty. Some are pressuring to institutionalize food sovereignty principles and practices through laws, policies, and programs. 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: What dimensions of food sovereignty are addressed in public policies and which are left out? What are the tensions, losses and gains for social movements engaging with sub-national and national governments? How can local governments be leveraged to build autonomous spaces against state and corporate power? The contributors to this book analyze 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 analyze 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. "--Provided by publisher.