Food Soveignty

Request PDF | How to feed the world sustainably: an overview of the discourse on agroecology and sustainable intensification | In order to combat hunger and feed a growing world population, adapt to climate change and reduce environmental impacts of unsustainable farming... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

By Rita Jill Clark-Gollub (Washington), Erika Takeo (Managua), and Avery Raimondo (Los Angeles) “A nation

That is why a document arises stating the aspects that as an organized society ask the national government to guarantee improvements in the economic, political, and social sectors..

We need to stop depending on corporations and big agribusiness for our food. The pandemic has made it clear why.

People seek to co-design food systems, to participate in shaping them, to recapture them. We were familiar with the slogan of workplace democracy; we must now open up our eyes to food democracy.

In response to neoliberal food and agriculture policy, peasant movements fought for increased state support of the small-farm sector. Vía Campesina now proposes agroecology and localized trade as environmental solutions to the current climate crisis by advocating for the ‘peasant way.’ This discourse is problematic because peasant farmers are not inherently supportive of local, sustainable food. Drawing on ethnographic field research with indigenous peasant communities in the rural highlands of Ecuador, this article illustrates how existing peasants practice chemical-intensive, monocrop, and export-oriented production. In using peasant as an ideal type rather than an historical ethno-class, post-development scholars essentialize peasant agriculture.

Food Climate Research Network (FCRN) | Knowledge for better food systems