Greetings! A new paper on ‘Food Sovereignty’ may be of interest to you and your networks. Here are a couple of highlights from the summary: As the food sovereignty paradigm is gaining traction, the global food sovereignty movement, best described as a movement of movements, is diversifying. Peasant farmers, indigenous peoples, agricultural workers, nongovernmental organizations, and scholar-activists working on food sovereignty are engaging in dialogues with other social actors. The global food sovereignty movement is calling for the convergence of all anti-systemic and anti-capitalist movements, including climate and labor justice movements, feminist movements, black movements, degrowth economics, and antiwar movements. Food sovereignty as a concept, as a right, and as a paradigm for food systems transformation is a valuable starting point for the formulation of joint proposals and actions for systemic change in this emerging confluence of movements. Food sovereignty is also an increasingly popular research topic for a wide range of academic disciplines, including anthropology, geography, history, law, philosophy, agronomy, and ecology, as well as transdisciplinary research on agri-food systems. Historical, decolonial, feminist, cross-cultural, transdisciplinary, and critical perspectives are all needed to further understand the origins, development, and politics of food sovereignty in different contexts. Place-based and nuanced explorations of the multilevel processes that enable and constrain systemic change for food sovereignty can help inform policy and practice in different settings. These are important future directions for research on food sovereignty. The full paper can be downloaded for free from: Pimbert, M. P. and P. Claeys (2024). “Food Sovereignty.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Ed. Mark Aldenderfer. New York: Oxford University Press. https://agroecologynow.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Food-Sovereignty-Pimbert-Claeys-2024.pdf Food-Sovereignty-Pimbert-Claeys-2024 PDF Document · 512 KB https://agroecologynow.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Food-Sovereignty-Pimbert-Claeys-2024.pdf Food-Sovereignty-Pimbert-Claeys-2024 PDF Document · 512 KB
