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The Struggle for Food Sovereignty: Alternative Development and the Renewal of Peasant Societies Today
Remy Herrera (Ed.)
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Description for The Struggle for Food Sovereignty: Alternative Development and the Renewal of Peasant Societies Today
Paperback. Editor(s): Herrera, Remy; Lau, Kin Chi. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: GTF; KNAC; RNFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 135 x 14. Weight in Grams: 240.
The world's food system is broken, and today's peasant societies are at a crossroads. This collection explores the multiplicity of problems faced by global family agricultures in the current neoliberal era. The contributors, including include Samir Amin, Joao Pedro Stedile and Utsa Patnaik, argue that an understanding of the revival of peasant struggles for their social emancipation and legitimate right of access to land is essential. Financialisation is undermining their work, and must be resisted if they are to construct a new, socially just food system. This is a response to the ... Read more
The world's food system is broken, and today's peasant societies are at a crossroads. This collection explores the multiplicity of problems faced by global family agricultures in the current neoliberal era. The contributors, including include Samir Amin, Joao Pedro Stedile and Utsa Patnaik, argue that an understanding of the revival of peasant struggles for their social emancipation and legitimate right of access to land is essential. Financialisation is undermining their work, and must be resisted if they are to construct a new, socially just food system. This is a response to the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Pluto Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745335940
SKU
V9780745335940
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About Remy Herrera (Ed.)
Remy Herrera is an economist and researcher at the National Centre for Scientific Research at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. He is the co-author of The Struggle for Food Sovereignty (Pluto, 2015). Kin Chi Lau is assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. She is the co-author of The Struggle for Food ... Read more
Reviews for The Struggle for Food Sovereignty: Alternative Development and the Renewal of Peasant Societies Today
'With historically unprecedented hunger sitting side by side with historically unprecedented obesity, it is apparent that the world food system is broken. As a result, around the world peasants and family farmers are struggling to construct a new, socially just, food system that cools the planet and feeds the world.'
Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Professor, Department of International Development Studies, Trent ... Read more
Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Professor, Department of International Development Studies, Trent ... Read more