Peasants negotiating a global policy space : La Vía Campesina in the Committee on World Food Security / Ingeborg Gaarde.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaarde, Ingeborg, author.

Series:

Routledge studies in food, society and environment

Routledge studies in food, society and the environment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vía Campesina (Organization).

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Committee on World Food Security.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Peasants--Political activity--Developing countries.

Peasants.

Land reform--Developing countries.

Land reform.

Food sovereignty.

Peasants--Political activity.

Developing countries.

Food sovereignty--Developing countries.

Physical Description:

xix, 211 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

Contents:

Introduction

Exploring agency in a global movement

The consolidation of an international peasant movement

Carrying out an autonomous space for participation in the UN Committee on World Food Security

The CSF as a political battlefield

From the plough to the UN negotiation table

Building outwards by looking inwards

Main tensions and debates: strategic engagement with others

Final conclusions and perspectives: peasants' agency in the global age.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138214873

1138214876

OCLC:

962171705