Food sovereignty, as a critical alternative to the concept of food security, is broadly defined as the right of local peoples to control their own food systems, including markets, ecological resources, food cultures, and production modes. This article reviews the origins of the concept of food sovereignty and its theoretical and methodological development as an alternative approach to food security, building on a growing interdisciplinary literature on food sovereignty in the social and agroecological sciences. Specific elements of food sovereignty examined include food regimes, rights-based and citizenship approaches to food and food sovereignty, and the substantive concerns of advocates for this alternative paradigm, including a new trade regime, agrarian reform, a shift to agroecological production practices, attention to gender relations and equity, and the protection of intellectual and indigenous property rights. The article concludes with an evaluation of community-based perspectives and suggestions for future research on food sovereignty.
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In Environment and Society
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Extractive Conservation
Peasant Agroecological Systems as New Frontiers of Exploitation?
Anne Cristina de la Vega-Leinert and Peter Clausing
(accessed 15 June 2016 ). Wittman , Hannah . 2009 . “ Reworking the Metabolic Rift: La Vía Campesina, Agrarian Citizenship, and Food Sovereignty .” Journal of Peasant Studies 36 , no. 4 : 805 – 826 , doi: 10.1080/03066150903353991 . 10
In Environment and Society
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- 01 Sep 2016
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- Research Article
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