Globalization and food sovereignty : global and local change in the new politics of food / edited by Peter Andrée, Jeffrey Ayres, Michael J. Bosia, and Marie-Josée Massicotte.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

With perspectives drawn from Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australia, Globalization and Food Sovereignty is the first comparative collection to focus on food sovereignty activism worldwide.

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Introduction : crisis and contention in the new politics of food /Peter Andrée, Jeffrey Ayres, Michael J. Bosia, and Marie-Josée Massicotte -- Part 1. Food sovereignty in theory and policy debates. Food sovereignty and globalization : lines of inquiry / Peter Andrée, Jeffrey Ayres, Michael J. Bosia, and Marie-Josée Massicotte -- The territory of self-determination : social reproduction, agro-ecology, and the role of the state / Michael Menser -- Exploring the limits of fair trade : the local food movement in the context of late capitalism / Noah Zerbe -- Local food : food sovereignty or myth of alternative consumer sovereignty? / Martha McMahon -- Part 2. Food sovereignty in comparative perspective. Citizen-farmers : the possibilities and the limits of Australia's emerging alternative food networks / Peter Andrée -- From food security to food sovereignty in Canada : resistance and authority in the context of neoliberalism / Sarah J. Martin and Peter Andrée -- Food sovereignty in practice : a study of farmer-led sustainable agriculture in the Philippines / Sarah Wright -- Free markets for all : transition economies and the European Union's common agricultural policy / Irena Knezevic -- Part 3. Food sovereignty in contentious politics. Feminist political ecology and La Vía Campesina's struggle for food sovereignty through the experience of the Escola Latino-Americana de Agroecologia (ELAA) / Marie-Josée Massicotte -- Food sovereignty, trade rules, and the struggle to know the origins of food / Elizabeth Smythe -- Food sovereignty as localized resistance to globalization in France and the United States / Jeffrey Ayres and Michael J. Bosia -- Conclusion : the food sovereignty lens / Philip McMichael.

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