What does food sovereignty look like

By Raj Patel, Hannah Arendt. 2009

217 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Law, Sociology and Political Science

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3. Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
4. E. Holt-gimenez
5. M. Altieri
6. J. Allouche
7. R. Santpoort
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In Law

1. Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
2. J. Franco
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1. E. Holt-gimenez
2. Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
3. M. Altieri
4. J. Franco
5. Raj Patel
6. J. Allouche

Citations in the corpus

• No hay ganancia en la milpa: the agrarian question, food sovereignty, and the on-farm conservation of agrobiodiversity in the Guatemalan highlands (2009, unknown): “In contrast to the principle of food security – which advocates the lofty goal of people always having access to safe, sufficient, and nutritious food, but is ‘agnostic about the production regime, about the social and economic conditions under which food ends up on the table’ (Patel 2007, 90) – the”
• De-mystifying family farming: Features, diversity and trends across the globe (2015, unknown): “…environmental damage (Rossi and Garner, 2014), lack of cohesion between nature and society (Slobbe et al., 2011), disappearing rural communities (van der Ploeg, 2008), landlessness among rural populations (Woodhouse, 2010; Deininger and Byerlee, 2012) and loss of food sovereignty (Patel, 2009).”
• Agroecology, Food Sovereignty, and the New Green Revolution (2012, background): “…peasant federation La Via Campesina has called for food sovereignty, “The right of people’s to healthy and culturally appropriate food, produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agricultural systems” (quoted in Patel 2009, 666).”
• The sustainability and resilience of global water and food systems: Political analysis of the interplay between security, resource scarcity, political systems and global trade (2011, background): “Under the banner of ‘food sovereignty’ they advocate for the use of agro-ecological technologies, fair prices for farmers and greater emphasis on local production (Patel, 2009).”
• Why agronomy in the developing world has become contentious (2013, unknown): “…been associated with the emergence in Latin America and Asia (and to a lesser extent in SSA) of rural social movements campaigning on issues such as landlessness, corporate control over agricultural technology and ‘food sovereignty’ (Akram-Lodhi, 2007; McMichael, 2008; Patel, 2009; Teubal, 2009).”
• Global Land Grabbing and Trajectories of Agrarian Change: A Preliminary Analysis (2012, background): “…the past couple of decades: a more or less integrated ‘food–energy– land sovereignty’ strategic alternative (both as a broad idea and as local initiatives) has widespread purchase among civil society activists and their allies in the academic world (Holt-Gimenez and Shattuck 2011; Patel 2009).”
• Introduction: critical perspectives on food sovereignty (2014, unknown): “…in this introductory essay and in a number of contributions to this collection – e.g. contributions by McKay et al., Giunta, and Bernstein), which includes questions about ‘multiple sovereignties’ (Edelman, this collection; Patel 2009) and ‘competing sovereignties’ (Schiavoni forthcoming).”
• Food crises, food regimes and food movements: rumblings of reform or tides of transformation? (2011, unknown): “The ‘right to have rights over food’ invokes a democratization of the food system in favor of the poor and underserved (Patel 2009, Vı́a Campesina 2008, Windfuhr and Jonsén 2005).”
• Land Sparing Versus Land Sharing: Moving Forward (2014, unknown): “As far as the terms of food security go, it is entirely possible for people to be food secure in prison or under a dictatorship” (Patel 2009).”
• The Long Green Revolution (2013, background): “As I have argued elsewhere, it is perhaps unsurprising that such a model of privatized knowledge-driven change should appeal to a man who built Microsoft with similar tools (Patel 2009).”
• Putting meaning back into “sustainable intensification” (2014, unknown): “In a food systems context, procedural justice can be characterized in terms of food sovereignty, which Patel (2009) described as calling for “new political spaces to be filled with argument…a call for people to figure out for themselves what they want the right to food to mean in their communities,…”