Globalization and Food Sovereignty : Global and Local Change in the New Politics of Food / Peter Andree, Jeffrey Ayres, Michael Bosia, Marie-Josee Massicotte.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Andrée, Peter, 1970- editor.

Ayres, Jeffrey McKelvey, editor.

Bosia, Michael J., editor.

Mássicotte, Marie-Josée, editor.

Series:

Studies in comparative political economy and public policy ; 42.

Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy ; 42

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food sovereignty.

Agriculture--Economic aspects.

Agriculture.

Globalization.

Food--Political aspects.

Food.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (392 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With perspectives drawn from Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australia, Globalization and Food Sovereignty is the first comparative collection to focus on food sovereignty activism worldwide.

Contents:

Introduction : crisis and contention in the new politics of food /Peter Andree, Jeffrey Ayres, Michael J. Bosia, and Marie-Josee Massicotte

Part 1. Food sovereignty in theory and policy debates. Food sovereignty and globalization : lines of inquiry / Peter Andree, Jeffrey Ayres, Michael J. Bosia, and Marie-Josee Massicotte

The territory of self-determination : social reproduction, agro-ecology, and the role of the state / Michael Menser

Exploring the limits of fair trade : the local food movement in the context of late capitalism / Noah Zerbe

Local food : food sovereignty or myth of alternative consumer sovereignty? / Martha McMahon

Part 2. Food sovereignty in comparative perspective. Citizen-farmers : the possibilities and the limits of Australia's emerging alternative food networks / Peter Andree

From food security to food sovereignty in Canada : resistance and authority in the context of neoliberalism / Sarah J. Martin and Peter Andree

Food sovereignty in practice : a study of farmer-led sustainable agriculture in the Philippines / Sarah Wright

Free markets for all : transition economies and the European Union's common agricultural policy / Irena Knezevic

Part 3. Food sovereignty in contentious politics. Feminist political ecology and La Vía Campesina's struggle for food sovereignty through the experience of the Escola Latino-Americana de Agroecologia (ELAA) / Marie-Josee Massicotte

Food sovereignty, trade rules, and the struggle to know the origins of food / Elizabeth Smythe

Food sovereignty as localized resistance to globalization in France and the United States / Jeffrey Ayres and Michael J. Bosia

Conclusion : the food sovereignty lens / Philip McMichael.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Okt 2018)

ISBN:

1-4426-9687-7

1-4426-9686-9

OCLC:

879869975