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

ISBN-13: 9781138790087 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 248 str.

Amy Trauger

Opis

Food sovereignty is an emerging discourse of empowerment and autonomy in the food system with the development of associated practices in rural and some urban spaces. While literature on food sovereignty has proliferated since the first usage of the term in 1996 at the Rome Food Summit, most has been descriptive rather than explanatory in nature, and often confuses food sovereignty with other movements and objectives such as alternative food networks, food justice, or food self-sufficiency. This book is a collection of empirically rich and theoretically engaged papers across a broad geographical spectrum reflecting on what constitutes the politics and practices of food sovereignty. They contribute to a theoretical gap in the food sovereignty literature as well as a relative shortage of empirical work on food sovereignty in the global "North," much previous work having focussed on Latin America. Specific case studies are included from Canada, Norway, Switzerland, southern Europe, UK and USA, as well as Africa, India and Ecuador. The 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.