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The rise & political convergence of agroecology, land reform, food justice, & food sovereignty movements in response to the 2007/08global food crisis are examined. The food crisis is described in terms of the North-South divide, with the former's major agrifood monopolies reaping record profits while the latter suffered hunger & lost food production capacity. Considered is the notion of the "persistence of the peasantry" despite urbanization & depeasantization in the form of an international movement centered on food sovereignty as first defined by La Via Campesina. Focus turns to two trends: agrarian advocacy (as manifest in La Via Campesina) & smallholder farmer-to-farmer-NGO partnerships committed to developing sustainable agriculture. The divide between advocacy & practice is addressed, along with how to bridge that gap & foster a political convergence, using the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement to illustrate. Adapted from the source document.

Today there are over a billion hungry people on the planet, more than ever before in history. While the global food crisis dropped out of the news in 2008, it returned in 2011 (and is threatening us again in 2012) and remains a painful reality for the world's poor and underserved. Why, in a time of record harvests, are a record number of people going hungry? And why are a handful of corporations making record profits? In Food Rebellions! Crisis and the Hunger for Justice, authors Eric Holt-Giménez and Raj Patel with Annie Shattuck offer us the real story behind the global food crisis and docum