Contested global governance space and transnational agrarian movements: a critical development perspective
This book analyses the strategy presently employed by transnational agrarian movements (TAMs) in the pursuit of food sovereignty in the context of financialization and the global governance of agriculture. The analysis of this strategy pursued in diverse political levels is based on the Arrighi-Moore world-system theory (a multidisciplinary approach that emphasizes the world-system and not nation states as the primary unit of social analysis). This approach allows understanding financialization in agriculture as part of a worldwide economic cycle generated by the Bretton Woods crisis, the dynamics of which reshaped the space available for the global governance of agriculture. I argue that financialization in agriculture generated a dichotomy in the space of global governance: intellectual property rights (IPR) versus collective rights. "It was as a result of this dichotomy that TAMs strategically entered into global governance space, claiming food sovereignty and, through entering into public policy dialogue with governments, resisting any further penetration of capital into agriculture from within the production process.
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| Format: | Texto biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
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Halifax (Canada) Fernwood Publishing
2023
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| Subjects: | agriculture, international cooperation, politics, finance, food sovereignty, globalization, family farming, agroecology, SDG 2, SDG 17, |
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