The Food Sovereignty Project: Advancing Theory and Practices

Salma Loudiyi

doi:10.5304/jafscd.2018.082.011

Abstract

First paragraph: In The Politics of Food Sovereignty: Concept, Practice and Social Movements, editors Annie Shattuck, Christina Schiavoni, and Zoe VanGelder bring together some of the seminal contributions of the Yale McMillan Center Agrarian Studies Program’s 2013 conference focused on food sovereignty (“Food Sovereignty: A Critical Dialogue”). These proceedings were originally published in a special issue of the journal Globalizations (volume 12, issue 4, 2015). This book is valuable in general as it discusses the upcoming challenges and contradictions of food sovereignty, a rising concept and political movement in the Global South and North. Contrasting with the food sovereignty literature to date, which has mainly focused on the Global South (from which food sovereignty movements have emerged), this book shows how the original idea has expanded to encompass the Global North and urban communities. This book includes cases studies from the U.S., Canada, Russia, Peru, and Venezuela, demonstrating that many types of sovereignties may exist and coexist at different scales, which is a big challenge....

Highlights

Review of The Politics of Food Sovereignty: Concept, Practice and Social Movements, edited by Annie Shattuck, Christina Schiavoni, and Zoe VanGelder. (2017)
Contrasting with the food sovereignty literature to date, which has mainly focused on the Global South, this book shows how the original idea has expanded to encompass the Global North and urban communities
The editors set the stage for the rest of the book by bringing up the real challenges of the food sovereignty movements, namely, the contradictions surrounding scale, power relations, gender issues, the disconnect between ideas from the rural south and those from the urban north

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Review of The Politics of Food Sovereignty: Concept, Practice and Social Movements, edited by Annie Shattuck, Christina Schiavoni, and Zoe VanGelder. (2017). Review of The Politics of Food Sovereignty: Concept, Practice and Social Movements, edited by Annie Shattuck, Christina Schiavoni, and Zoe VanGelder.

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