Food security, food sovereignty, and local challenges for transnational agrarian movements the Honduras case
This article examines the complicated histories of two competing development tropes in postwar Honduras: food security and food sovereignty. Food security emerged as a construct intertwined with land security and national food self-sufficiency soon after the militant, peasant-led movement for national agrarian reform in the 1970s. The transnational coalition, La Viacutea Campesina, launched their global food sovereignty campaign in the 1990s, in part to counter the global corporate industrial agro-food system. Cultural and political analysis reveals challenges for each trope. Food security resonates with deeply held peasant understandings of seguridad for their continued social reproduction in insecure social and natural conditions. In contrast, the word sovereignty, generally understood as powers of nation states, faces semantic confusion and distance from rural actors' lives.
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| Format: | Texto biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
| Subjects: | Movimientos campesinos, Seguridad alimenticia, Soberanía alimentaria, Reforma agraria, Artfrosur, |
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