Food Sovereignty: Convergence and Contradictions, Condition and Challenges

ISBN-13: 9780415786348 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 212 str.

Eric Holt-Gimenez; Alberto Alonso-Fradejas; Todd Holmes

Opis

Building upon previous and parallel initiatives in scholar-activism and along the tradition of ‘a critical dialogue’ among activists and academics, this book identifies four key themes that focus on the difficult contradictions, dilemmas and challenges confronting future research in the area of food sovereignty: (i) dynamics within and between social groups and classes, (ii) flex crops and commodities, market insertion and long-distance trade, (iii) territorial restructuring, land and food sovereignty, and (iv) localization problematique. It aims to deepen academic discussions on food sovereignty. This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

O autorze

Eric Holt-Giménez has been Executive Director of Food First since 2006. He is the editor of many academic, magazine and news articles, and lectures internationally on hunger and food system transformation.

Alberto Alonso-Fradejas is a PhD Candidate at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in the Netherlands, a researcher at the Transnational Institute (TNI), and a Fellow of the Guatemalan Institute of Agrarian and Rural Studies (IDEAR).

Todd Holmes is a postdoctoral fellow with the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University. He earned his PhD in history at Yale University, where for four years he served as the Program Coordinator for the Yale Agrarian Studies Program.

Martha Jane Robbins is a PhD Researcher at ISS in the Netherlands and holds a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship.