It is now more than a decade since the Right to Food Guidelines were negotiated, agreed and adopted internationally by states. This book provides a review of its objectives and the extent of success of its implementation. The focus is on the first key guideline "Democracy, good governance, human rights and the rule of law" with an emphasis on civil society participation in global food governance. The five BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) are presented as case studies: representing major emerging economies, they blur the line between the Global North and...
It is now more than a decade since the Right to Food Guidelines were negotiated, agreed and adopted internationally by states. This book provides a...
As a fast growing global peasant movement with members in 80 countries around the world, La Via Campesina (LVC) has planted itself firmly on the international scene. This book explores the internationalization of the movement, with a specific focus on the engagement of peasants in the processes of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS).
Since the reform of the CFS in 2009, civil society actors engage in the policy processes of this UN Committee from a self-designed and autonomous global Civil Society Mechanism. The author sheds light on the strategies, tensions, debates, and...
As a fast growing global peasant movement with members in 80 countries around the world, La Via Campesina (LVC) has planted itself firmly on the in...
Urban population growth is extremely rapid across Africa and this book places urban food and nutrition security firmly on the development and policy agenda. It shows that current efforts to address food poverty in Africa that focus entirely on small-scale farmers, to the exclusion of broader socio-economic and infrastructural approaches, are misplaced and will remain largely ineffective in ameliorating food and nutrition insecurity for the majority of Africans.
Using original data from the African Food Security Urban Network's (AFSUN) extensive database it is demonstrated...
Urban population growth is extremely rapid across Africa and this book places urban food and nutrition security firmly on the development an...
Thousands of people in dozens of countries took to the streets when world food prices spiked in 2008 and 2011. What does the persistence of popular mobilization around food tell us about the politics of subsistence in an era of integrated food markets and universal human rights? This book interrogates this period of historical rupture in the global system of subsistence, getting behind the headlines and inside the politics of global food crisis.
The half decade of 2007-12 was a period of intensely volatile food prices as well as unusual levels of popular mobilization, including...
Thousands of people in dozens of countries took to the streets when world food prices spiked in 2008 and 2011. What does the persistence of popular...
Food security is one of the world's current major challenges, but research and discussion on it are often fragmented between different academic disciplines and appraches. Resolution of this disconnect is now recognized as a priority. This book takes on this challenge by breaking down interdisciplinary barriers to develop innovatory food security solutions.
The book is structured so that readers are taken in a logical progression through discussion of topics such as markets and technology, to waste and the relevance of gender, place and scale. The range of examples discussed is...
Food security is one of the world's current major challenges, but research and discussion on it are often fragmented between different academic dis...
Food security is one of the world's current major challenges, but research and discussion on it are often fragmented between different academic disciplines and appraches. Resolution of this disconnect is now recognized as a priority. This book takes on this challenge by breaking down interdisciplinary barriers to develop innovatory food security solutions.
The book is structured so that readers are taken in a logical progression through discussion of topics such as markets and technology, to waste and the relevance of gender, place and scale. The range of examples discussed is...
Food security is one of the world's current major challenges, but research and discussion on it are often fragmented between different academic dis...
An increasing number of rural and urban-based movements are realizing some political traction in their demands for food sovereignty. Some are pressuring to institutionalize food sovereignty principles and practices through laws, policies, and programs. While the literature on food sovereignty continues to grow in volume and complexity, there are a number of key questions that, in our view, need to be examined more deeply. These relate specifically to the processes and consequences of seeking to institutionalize food sovereignty: What dimensions of food sovereignty are addressed in public...
An increasing number of rural and urban-based movements are realizing some political traction in their demands for food sovereignty. Some are press...
An increasing number of rural and urban-based movements are realizing some political traction in their demands for food sovereignty. Some are pressuring to institutionalize food sovereignty principles and practices through laws, policies, and programs. While the literature on food sovereignty continues to grow in volume and complexity, there are a number of key questions that, in our view, need to be examined more deeply. These relate specifically to the processes and consequences of seeking to institutionalize food sovereignty: What dimensions of food sovereignty are addressed in public...
An increasing number of rural and urban-based movements are realizing some political traction in their demands for food sovereignty. Some are press...
Food is a contentious and emotive issue, subject to critiques from multiple perspectives. Alternative food movements - including the different articulations of local, food miles, seasonality, food justice, food knowledge and food sovereignty - consistently invoke themes around autonomy, sufficiency, cooperation, mutual aid, freedom, and responsibility.
In this stimulating and provocative book the authors link these issues to utopias and intentional communities. Using a food utopias framework presented in the introduction, they examine food stories in three interrelated and...
Food is a contentious and emotive issue, subject to critiques from multiple perspectives. Alternative food movements - including the different arti...
