Table of Contents

1. Introduction: critical perspectives on food sovereignty 2. Historicizing food sovereignty 3. Food sovereignty: forgotten genealogies and future regulatory challenges 4. Diálogo de saberes in La Vía Campesina: food sovereignty and agroecology 5. Peasant-driven agricultural growth and food sovereignty 6. Food sovereignty via the ‘peasant way’: a sceptical view 7. What place for international trade in food sovereignty? 8. Farmers’ rights and food sovereignty: critical insights from India 9. Life in a shrimp zone: aqua- and other cultures of Bangladesh’s coastal landscape 10. Toward a political geography of food sovereignty: transforming territory, exchange and power in the liberal sovereign state 11. Farmers, foodies and First Nations: getting to food sovereignty in Canada 12. The ‘state’ of food sovereignty in Latin America: political projects and alternative pathways in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia 13. Food sovereignty in Ecuador: peasant struggles and the challenge of institutionalization 14. Re-purposing the master’s tools: the open source seed initiative and the struggle for seed sovereignty 15. Food sovereignty, food security and democratic choice: critical contradictions, difficult conciliations

About the Author

Marc Edelman, James C. Scott, Amita Baviskar, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Deniz Kandiyoti, Eric Holt-Giménez, Tony Weis, Wendy Wolford