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Peasants Negotiating a Global Policy Space - La Via Campesina in the Committee on World Food Security (Paperback)
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Peasants Negotiating a Global Policy Space - La Via Campesina in the Committee on World Food Security (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
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Being the public voice of over 180 member organisations across
nearly 90 countries, La Via Campesina, the global peasant movement,
has planted itself firmly on the international scene. This book
explores the internationalisation 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 reconfigurations arising from rural actors
moving between every day struggles in the fields and those of the
UN arena. Whereas most theories in the dominant literature on
social movements expect them to either disappear or
institutionalise in a predetermined pattern, the book presents
empirical evidence that La Via Campesina is building a much more
sophisticated model. The direct participation of representatives of
peasant organisations in the CFS is highlighted as a pioneering
example of building a more complex, inclusive and democratic
foundation for global policy-making. Foreword by Olivier De
Schutter, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
(2008-2014).
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