The struggle for food sovereignty: alternative development and the renewal of peasant societies today / edited by Rémy Herrera and Kin Chi Lau

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World Forum for Alternatives.. List of Abbreviations.. Introduction.. Family Agriculture in the Present World: Regional Perspectives.. 1 Theoretical Framework.. Food Sovereignty and the Agrarian Question: Constructing Convergence of Struggles within Diversity.. 2 Latin America.. Reflections on the Tendencies of Capital in Agriculture and Challenges for Peasant Movements in Latin America.. 3 Africa.. Rebuilding African Peasantries: Inalienability of Land Rights and Collective Food Sovereignty in Southern Africa?.. 4 Asia (I.. Rethinking 'Rural China', Unthinking Modernisation: Rural Regeneration and Post-Developmental Historical Agency.. 5 Asia (II.. The Political-Economic Context of the Peasant Struggles for Livelihood Security and Land in India.. 6 Oceania.. The Papua Niugini Paradox: Land Property Archaism and Modernity of Peasant Resistance?.. 7 Europe.. An Overview of the European Peasants and Their Struggles.. Conclusion.. Facing the Domination of Financial Capital: The Convergence of Peasant Struggles Today.. References.. List of Contributors.. Index

The Struggle for Food Sovereignty explores the problems faced by Southern and Northern family agricultures in the current neoliberal era. The contributors, who include Samir Amin, João Pedro Stedile and Utsa Patnaik, base their arguments on an understanding of the revival of peasant struggles for their social emancipation and legitimate right of access to land and food. This collection is a response to the confusion which reigns surrounding how these urgent, global problems are understood and offers solutions as to how they should be approached. It understands that while there are common traits in how global capital goes after profit, the receptions on the ground differ. The authors, all experts in their fields, express the importance of the co-operation and cohesion of the various struggles taking place in different parts of the world, and how they must share a common vision for the future. eng