Food sovereignty : reconnecting food, nature & community

1 The Origins & Potential of Food Sovereignty Hannah Wittman, Annette Desmarais & Nettie Wiebe - Initiating the Food Sovereignty Concept - The Scope of Food Sovereignty - Broadening the Struggle for Food Sovereignty - Exploring Key Aspects of Food Sovereignty 2 Framing Resistance: International Food Regimes & the Roots of Food Sovereignty Madeleine Fairbairn - Conceptual Framework: Food Regimes & Neoliberalization - Frames for the "Free World": The Right to Food & Freedom from Hunger - Regime Crisis & Reconceptualization: The Emergence of Food Security - Individual Access, Neoliberal Means: The Transition to Household Food Security - Counterframe for the Corporate Food Regime: The Food Sovereignty Movement - The Potential of Food Sovereignty 3 Seeing Like a Peasant: Voices from La Via Campesina Itelvina Masioli and Paul Nicholson - Note 4 "Drawing Forth the Force that Slumbered in Peasants' Arms": The Economist, High Agriculture & Selling Capitalism Jim Handy and Carla Fehr - A Land without Peasants - The Mythical Benefits of Enclosure - "The Superstitious Worship of S's Name" - "A Business to Be Undertaken by Capitalists" - From Liberalism to Neoliberalism 5 Capitalist Agriculture, the Food Price Crisis & Peasant Resistance Walden Bello and Mara Baviera - A Perfect Storm? - The Agrofuel Factor - Structural Adjustment & Trade Liberalization - Eroding the Mexican Countryside - Creating a Rice Crisis in the Philippines - Destroying African Agriculture - Capitalism versus the Peasant - Resistance - The Conjuncture 6 Another Agrarian Transition Eric Holt-Gimenez and Annie Shattuck - Agrofuels Myths - The Agrofuels Boom - The Agrofuels Transition - Food Sovereignty: From Extraction to Redistribution 7 Reconnecting Agriculture & the Environment: Food Sovereignty & the Agrarian Basis of Ecological Citizenship Hannah Wittman - Technology, Efficiency & the Separation of Nature from Agriculture - Agrarian Citizenship as an Alternative Agroecological Rationality - Food Sovereignty: Enacting Agrarian Citizenship - The Campaign against Green Deserts - The Seed Sovereignty Campaign 8 Food Sovereignty & Redistributive Land Policies: Exploring Linkages, Identifying Challenges Saturnino M. Borras Jr. and Jennifer C. Franco - Land-Based Social Relations, Not "Things" - Dynamics of Reform - Struggles around Land Policies & Food Sovereignty - Struggling for Food Sovereignty in Politically Consolidated Lands 9 Scaling Up Agroecological Approaches for Food Sovereignty in Latin America Miguel A. Altieri - Small Farmers Are Key - Enhancing the Productivity of Small-Farm Systems through Agroecology - Rural Social Movements & Agroecology - Outlook & Prospects 10 Unearthing the Cultural & Material Struggles over Seed in Malawi Rachel Bezner Kerr - A Brief History of Seeds & Agriculture in Malawi - Seeds as Multiple Sites of Struggles over Sovereignty - Social Practices Linking Maize & Groundnut Seed to Food Sovereignty 11 Seed Sovereignty: The Promise of Open Source Biology Jack Kloppenburg - The Erosion of Farmers' Seed Sovereignty: The Privatization of Biodiversity - Resisting Exclusion, Creating Alternatives? - Open Source Movements: From Software to Wetware - A BioLinux for Seeds? - Pursuing Seed Sovereignty 12 Food Sovereignty in Movement: Addressing the Triple Crisis Philip McMichael - Food Sovereignty - Adaptation - Seed Politics - Energy Security 13 What Does Food Sovereignty Look Like? Raj Patel - The Etymology of "Food Sovereignty" - Big Tents & Rights Talk - Hannah Arendt & the Right to Have Rights - The Trace of Partial Universality in La Via Campesina Appendix 1 The Right to Produce and Access to Land Food Sovereignty: A Future without Hunger Our World Is Not For Sale Priority to Peoples' Food Sovereignty