The Struggle for Food Sovereignty: Alternative Development and the Renewal of Peasant Societies Today - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745335942 ISBN 13: 9780745335940

Publisher: Pluto Press, 2015

Synopsis

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, Joćo 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.

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About the Authors

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 Sovereignty (Pluto, 2015).

Edition details

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0745335942
• ISBN 13: 9780745335940
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Herrera Remy, Lau Kin Chi