scholarly journals 20 ANOS DA PROPOSTA DE SOBERANIA ALIMENTAR: CONSTRUINDO UM REGIME ALIMENTAR ALTERNATIVO/20 years of the food sovereignty proposal: building an alternative food regime/20 años de la propuesta de la soberanía alimentaria: la construcción de un régimen alimentario alternativo

REVISTA NERA ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 14-33
Author(s):  
Estevan Leopoldo de Freitas Coca

Em 2016 completam-se 20 anos da primeira proposição referente à soberania alimentar pela coalizão global de movimentos camponeses La Via Campesina, resultado da sua Segunda Conferência Internacional, em Tlaxcala, no México. Desde então, a soberania alimentar tem sido incorporada como bandeira de luta por diversos outros movimentos do campo e da cidade, organizações e governos. Nesse texto é demonstrado como a soberania alimentar tem se constituído como a principal proposição alternativa ao regime alimentar corporativista, o qual denota como as grandes potências capitalistas, sejam elas estados-nação ou empresas, usam o mercado de alimentos para manter sua hegemonia. O trabalho baseia-se numa ampla revisão bibliográfica e documental sobre a teoria dos regimes alimentares e a soberania alimentar

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 4061
Author(s):  
David Gallar-Hernández

Bolstering the political formation of agrarian organizations has become a priority for La Vía Campesina and the Food Sovereignty Movement. This paper addresses the Spanish case study of the Escuela de Acción Campesina (EAC)—(Peasant Action School), which is a tool for political formation in the Global North in which the philosophical and pedagogical principles of the “peasant pedagogies” of the Training Schools proposed by La Vía Campesina are put into practice within an agrarian organization in Spain and in alliance with the rest of the Spanish Food Sovereignty Movement. The study was carried out over the course of the 10 years of activist research, spanning the entire process for the construction and development of the EAC. Employing an ethnographic methodology, information was collected through participant observation, ethnographic interviews, a participatory workshop, and reviews of internal documents. The paper presents the context in which the EAC arose, its pedagogical dynamics, the structure and the ideological contents implemented for the training of new cadres, and how there are three key areas in the training process: (1) the strengthening of collective union and peasant identity, (2) training in the “peasant” ideological proposal, and (3) the integration of students as new cadres into the organizations’ structures. It is concluded that the EAC is a useful tool in the ideological re-peasantization process of these organizations.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benno Fladvad

This contribution discusses two different but interlinked fields of research: political theories of sovereignty and citizenship, as well as conceptualizations of emerging alternative food movements. In drawing on James Tully’s practiced-based understanding of ‘diverse citizenship’, as well as on other selected theories of postmodern political thought, it focuses on the contested political nature of the food sovereignty movement, specifically with regard to the dynamics and actions that have brought it into being. In doing so, it conceives of citizenship as materializing on the basis of multi-faceted practices of ‘acting otherwise’, which stands in sharp contrast to a conceptualization of citizenship as an institutionalized status, as it is understood in the liberal tradition. In order to deepen and to sharpen this alternative approach, this contribution additionally draws on Theodore Schatzki’s practice theory, which, despite its rather apolitical character, makes it possible to conceive of political practices as emergent and situational phenomena that are closely connected to the quotidian practices of everyday life. The combination of these perspectives bears great potential for theoretical discussions on alternative food movements as well as for their empirical investigation, since it puts emphasis on the way how practitioners and advocates for food sovereignty disclose themselves in multifaceted struggles over the imposition and the challenging of the rules of social living together.


2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert G. Wallace ◽  
Richard A. Kock

Many of the world's largest agribusinesses and their NGO grantees have launched an aggressive public relations offensive claiming highly capitalized monocropping is the only food regime with the production efficiencies needed to both protect the environment and feed a growing population. We critique the proposition as the latest evolution in declensionist greenwashing. In the context of a new land rush in Africa, where 60% of the world's undeveloped farmland remains, Big Food apologias are shifting from what have long been defensive maneuvers covering for the sector's destructive practices to brazen rationalizations such practices are the sole means of saving the planet. The narrative seeks to justify devolving food security into the hands of a small cartel of agricultural conglomerates pressured by the kind of land loss and environmental damage the industry helped bring about in the first place. There are eminently viable alternatives, however. Communal projects in conservation agriculture embody living refutations of the agribusiness program. With the right state support, these latter efforts, some already feeding millions, are in a demonstrably better position to sustainably feed and employ local populations, support broad food sovereignty, and protect wildlife, health and the environment for generations to come. Muchos de las compañías de agronegocios más grandes del mundo y sus ONGs han lanzado una agresiva ofensiva de relaciones públicas argumentando que el monocultivo altamente capitalizado es el único régimen alimentario con las eficiencias productivas necesarias para proteger al medio ambiente y alimentar a una creciente población mundial. En este artículo cuestionamos esta idea como el más reciente lavado de cerebro declesionista. En el contexto de una nueva fiebre colonizadora en África, adonde se encuentran el 60% de las tierras cultivables poco desarrolladas, la apología de la “Big Food” está girando de maniobras defensivas de las prácticas destructivas del sector a una racionalización de la idea de que tales prácticas son la única forma de salvar al planeta. Estas narrativas buscan justificar la necesidad de dejar la seguridad alimentaria en manos del pequeño cártel de conglomerados agrícolas, debido a la pérdida de tierras y los problemas medioambientales actuales, que la industria contribuyó a causar originalmente. No obstante, existen, evidentemente, alternativas viables. Proyectos comunales de agricultura conservacionista refutan rotundamente el programa de los agronegocios. Con el adecuado apoyo del estado, estos esfuerzos (algunos de los cuales ya alimentan a millones) están en una posición claramente mejor para alimentar y emplear poblaciones locales en forma sustentable, para garantizar la soberanía alimentaria y para proteger el medio ambiente y la salud por varias generaciones.


2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pratik Raghu

Abstract Since its foundation in 1993, La Vía Campesina has surged to the forefront of the global alter-globalization movement of movements, mobilizing human rights discourse to promote small-scale sustainable agriculture as a key component of social justice, equity, dignity, and autonomy everywhere. This literature review argues that food sovereignty—La Vía Campesina’s best known, rights-based innovation—inflects a range of other interrelated but distinct frames that variously foreground peasants’ rights, “peasantness,” land, cultural recognition, and collective emancipation, prefiguring an array of prospects for the expansion of human rights to peasants and other marginalized populations confronting the failures of capitalist globalization.


2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 979-997 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Elena Martínez-Torres ◽  
Peter M. Rosset

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabella Giunta

The contemporary corporate food regime (McMichael 2018) is characterized by reduction of food to commodity, rural-urban divide, profound asymmetries in access to resources (land and water), extractivism in the form of industrial agriculture (Gudynas 2013; Svampa 2019) and processes of accumulation by dispossession (Harvey 2003). In this context, the paper relies on the approach of political agroecology (González de Molina et al. 2019) to retrace the transformation of food conflicts in Ecuador, from traditional land struggles towards a more complex collective action in the name of food sovereignty, which deals with a scenario of recurring economic and ecological crises.


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