Grassroots Voices: Linking farmers' movements for advocacy and practice
Journal of Peasant Studies, vol 37, no. 1, January 2010
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Eric Holt-Gimenez Guest Editor
The contributors to this Grassroots Voices article include: Roland Bunch; Jorge Iran Vasquez; John Wilson; Michel P. Pimbert; Bary Boukary; Cathleen Kneen
Food Sovereignty
Raj Patel, guest editor, Journal of Peasant Studies, Volume 36, Issue 3 July 2009 , pages 663 - 706
Hannah Arendt observed that the first right, above all others, is the right to have rights. In many ways, Via Campesina's call for food sovereignty is precisely about invoking a right to have rights over food. But it's unclear quite how to cash out these ideas. This Grassroots Voices section examines some of the difficulties involved in parlaying the right to have rights about food systems into practical solutions.
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Agrofuels and Food Sovereignty: Another Agrarian Transition is Possible
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By Eric Holt-Giménez and Annie Shattuck
For presentation to the workshop
Food Sovereignty: Theory, Praxis, and Power
St. Andrews College, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
November 17-18, 2008.
Out of AGRA: The Green Revolution Returns to Africa
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By Eric Holt-Giménez
Published in Development, 2008 51(4), (464-471)
copyright 2008 Society for International Development 1011-6370/08
www.sidint.org/development/
ABSTRACT:
The global food crisis and philanthropy capitalism have
provided foundations and multilateral institutions an opportunity
to relaunch the Green Revolution in Africa. While the Alliance for
a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) maintains the Green Revolution
focus on genetic improvement, new technological variations
have been added, including a focus on genetic engineering. Eric
Ending Africa's Hunger
by Raj Patel, Eric Holt-Giménez and Annie Shattuck
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This article appeared in the September 21, 2009 edition of The Nation. September 2, 2009
From Food Crisis to Food Sovereignty: The Challenge of Social Movements
by Eric Holt-Giménez from Monthly Review
July-August 2009,
Volume 61, Number 3
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The current global food crisis — decades in the making — is a crushing indictment against capitalist agriculture and the corporate monopolies that dominate the world’s food systems.
The Agrofuels Transition: Restructuring Places and Spaces in the Global Food System
Image by Khalil Bendib
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Eric Holt-Giménez
Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy, eholtgim@foodfirst.org
Annie Shattuck
Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy