Encouragingly, people's movements for sustainable agriculture, food justice, and food
sovereignty (the democratization of the food system in favor of the poor) have worked for …

A description of the current global food system, this book challenges our ethical
responsibility to the global poor and implicates us all for failing to curb global hunger and …

In recent years, a number of middle-income countries and influential multilateral institutions
have instigated actions that frame food system governance around social protection and …

Today there are over a billion hungry people on the planet, more than ever before in history.
While the global food crisis dropped out of the news in 2008, it returned in 2011 (and is …

The failures of “free-market” capitalism are perhaps nowhere more evident than in the
production and distribution of food. Although modern human societies have attained …

Food sovereignty, as a movement and a set of ideas, is coming of age. Rooted in resistance
to free trade and the globalizing force of neoliberalism, the concept has inspired collective …

In this article, we bring together academic literature tracing contemporary social movements
centered on food, unpacking the discourses of local food, community food security, food …

The concept of food sovereignty is primarily taken as an alternative to the prevailing
neoliberal food security model. However, the approach has hitherto not received adequate …

Since entering into the global arena just over a decade ago, the concept of “food
sovereignty” has garnered increasing attention from intellectuals, policy-makers and activists …

In the last decade, the world has grown richer and produced more food than ever before. Yet
in that same period, hunger has increased and 925 million remain underfed and …