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Food sovereignty or bust Transforming the agrifood system is a must

Joshua Sbicca

The fight for food sovereignty is a response to the current corporate food regime,
one predicated on industrial modes of production, corporate concentration in
supply chains, the patenting of seeds and biotechnology, and neoliberal trade
policies that displace agrifood systems in poor and developing countries
(McMichael, 2009a). While peasants throughout the Global South fare poorly
as their land and labor are integrated into the global agrifood system – often in
the name of sustainable development – many are also at the forefront of new
peasant-based agrarian movements (Borras et al., 2008). Over the past few
decades, the food sovereignty movement has fought to protect local food
cultures, food economies, ecosystems, and political systems from neoliberal trade
policies and capitalist modes of agricultural production. Therefore, after a brief
review of the social and ecological relations perpetuated by the current global
corporate food regime, I investigate this movement’s potential to repair these
effects, paying specific attention to the issue of anthropogenic greenhouse gases.