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	Yale April 2010 Borras_Franco CoC paper.pdf	165.13 KB

By Saturnino Borras Jr. & Jennifer Franco

Borras is a Food First Fellow. He is Canada Research Chair in International Development Studies, Saint Mary’s University, Canada.
Jennifer Franco is a Researcher at the Transnational Institute (TNI), in Amsterdam.

Read the statement issued by Via Campesina here: http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2900

I. INTRODUCTION
The past decades have seen the emergence of a “corporate social
responsibility agenda” in response to public and activist criticism of “the
impact of transnational corporations (TNCs) in developing countries and

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	Linking Farmers' movements for advocacy and practice 2010.pdf	969.26 KB

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	Linking Farmers' movements for advocacy and practice 2010.pdf	969.26 KB

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

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 & Food Sovereignty - Canada 2008.pdf	355.39 KB

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.

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	Out of AGRA 2009.pdf	124.83 KB

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

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	Nation_Éradiquer la faim en afrique.pdf	54.98 KB

This article appeared in the September 21, 2009 edition of The Nation.

September 2, 2009

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	142-156 Holt-Gimenez+MR.pdf	167.94 KB

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	De Crisis Alimentaria a Soberanía Alimentaria.pdf	55.33 KB

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.

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	La transición de los agrocombustibles-SAGEPub.pdf	107.56 KB

Eric Holt-Giménez
Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy, eholtgim@foodfirst.org

Annie Shattuck
Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy