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A fundamentally contested concept, food sovereignty (FS) has - as a
political project and campaign, an alternative, a social movement
and an analytical framework - barged into global discourses, both
political and academic, over the past two decades. This collection
identifies a number of key questions regarding FS. What does
(re)localisation mean? How does the notion of FS connect with
similar and/or overlapping ideas historically? How does it address
questions of both market and non-market forces in a dominantly
capitalist world? How does FS deal with such differentiating social
contradictions? How does the movement deal with larger issues of
nation-state, where a largely urbanised world of non-food producing
consumers harbours interests distinct from those of farmers? How
does FS address the current trends of crop booms, as well as other
alternatives that do not sit comfortably within the basic tenets of
FS, such as corporate-captured fair trade? How does FS grapple with
the land question and move beyond the narrow 'rural/agricultural'
framework? Such questions call for a new era of research into FS, a
movement and theme that in recent years has inspired and mobilised
tens of thousands of activists and academics around the world:
young and old, men and women, rural and urban. This book was
originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.
A fundamentally contested concept, food sovereignty (FS) has - as a
political project and campaign, an alternative, a social movement
and an analytical framework - barged into global discourses, both
political and academic, over the past two decades. This collection
identifies a number of key questions regarding FS. What does
(re)localisation mean? How does the notion of FS connect with
similar and/or overlapping ideas historically? How does it address
questions of both market and non-market forces in a dominantly
capitalist world? How does FS deal with such differentiating social
contradictions? How does the movement deal with larger issues of
nation-state, where a largely urbanised world of non-food producing
consumers harbours interests distinct from those of farmers? How
does FS address the current trends of crop booms, as well as other
alternatives that do not sit comfortably within the basic tenets of
FS, such as corporate-captured fair trade? How does FS grapple with
the land question and move beyond the narrow 'rural/agricultural'
framework? Such questions call for a new era of research into FS, a
movement and theme that in recent years has inspired and mobilised
tens of thousands of activists and academics around the world:
young and old, men and women, rural and urban. This book was
originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.
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