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The struggle for food sovereignty : alternative development and the renewal of peasant societies today
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- Summary
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A crucial exploration into the globally important struggles faced by peasant societies today.
Details
- Creator
- edited by Rémy Herrera and Kin Chi Lau ; [chapter authors] Samir Amin [and seven others]
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- London : Pluto Press, 2015
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (viii, 182 pages)
- ISBNs
- 1783715057, 0745335942, 1783715073, 1783715065, 9781783715053, 0745335950, 9780745335957, 9780745335940, 9781783715077, 9781783715060
- OCLC
- ocn919014068
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; World Forum for Alternatives; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Family Agriculture in the Present World: Regional Perspectives; 1. Theoretical Framework: Food Sovereignty and the Agrarian Question: Constructing Convergence of Struggles within Diversity; 2. Latin America: Reflections on the Tendencies of Capital in Agriculture and Challenges for Peasant Movements in Latin America; 3. Africa: Rebuilding African Peasantries: Inalienability of Land Rights and Collective Food Sovereignty in Southern Africa?
- 4. Asia (I): Rethinking 'Rural China', Unthinking Modernisation: Rural Regeneration and Post-Developmental Historical Agency5. Asia (II): The Political-Economic Context of the Peasant Struggles for Livelihood Security and Land in India; 6. Oceania: The Papua Niugini Paradox: Land Property Archaism and Modernity of Peasant Resistance?; 7. Europe: An Overview of the European Peasants and Their Struggles; Conclusion: Facing the Domination of Financial Capital: The Convergence of Peasant Struggles Today; References; List of Contributors; Index