Food Sovereignty in International Context: Discourse, Politics and Practice of Place

ISBN-13: 9781138618244 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 248 str.

Amy Trauger

Opis

This book presents new research on the emergence of food sovereignties. It offers a wide variety of empirical examples and a theoretically engaged framework for explaining the aims of actors and organizations working toward autonomy and democracy in the food system.

Spis treści

1. Putting Food Sovereignty in Place  Amy Trauger  Part 1: Discourse  2. Where are the Local Communities? Food Sovereignty Discourses on International Agrobiodiversity Conservation Strategies  Claudio Brenni  3. Farmers, Foodies and First Nations: Getting to Food Sovereignty in Canada?  Annette Aurélie Desmarais and Hannah Wittman  4. Food Sovereignty in the Global North: The Application of a Social Justice Framework for a Common Language and Approach  Alanna Higgins  5. Framing Food Provisioning Research in the UK: Whither Food Sovereignty?  Carol Morris, Susanne Seymour and Adam Spencer  Part 2: Politics  6. Food Security, Food Sovereignty, and the Nation-state: Historicizing Norwegian Farmland Policy  Heidi Vinge  7. Repositioning Food Sovereignty: Between Ecuadorian Nationalist and Cosmopolitan Politics  Alberto Arce, Stephen Sherwood and Myriam Paredes  8. Seed Sovereignty as Civil Disobedience in Northern India?  Amy Trauger  9. Talking Around TT: Food Sovereignty as Unifying Discourse in the Southern Alberta Food System  Trina Filan  Part 3: Practice  10. Framing Multiple Food Sovereignties: Comparing the Nyéléni Declaration and the Local Food and Self-Governance Ordinance in Maine  Hilda E. Kurtz  11. Gender, Food Sovereignty and Agrarian Reforms  Susie Jacobs  12. Food Sovereignty in the Fields: Seed Exchange and Participatory Plant Breeding of Wheat Landraces in Italy  Elisa Da Vià  13. When Global goes Sweet, Locals turn Sour: Wine Sovereignty in Switzerland  Melaine Laesslé

O autorze

Amy Trauger is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Georgia, Athens, USA.