Food Sovereignty

Eric Holt-Giménez has been Executive Director of Food First since 2006. He is the editor of many academic, magazine and news articles, and lectures internationally on hunger and food system transformation. Alberto Alonso-Fradejas is a PhD Candidate at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in the Netherlands, a researcher at the Transnational Institute (TNI), and a Fellow of the Guatemalan Institute of Agrarian and Rural Studies (IDEAR). Todd Holmes is a postdoctoral fellow with the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University. He earned his PhD in history at Yale University, where for four years he served as the Program Coordinator for the Yale Agrarian Studies Program. Martha Jane Robbins is a PhD Researcher at ISS in the Netherlands and holds a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship.

• Exploring the ‘localisation’ dimension of food sovereignty. Food sovereignty, food security and fair trade: the case of an influential Nicaraguan smallholder cooperative. Food sovereignty and the quinoa boom: challenges to sustainable re-peasantisation in the southern Altiplano of Bolivia. Food sovereignty as praxis: rethinking the food question in Uganda. Giuliano Martiniello Challenges for food sovereignty policy making: the case of Nicaragua’s Law 693. Operationalising food sovereignty through an investment lens: how agro-ecology is putting ‘big push theory’ back on the table. Accelerating towards food sovereignty. We are not all the same: taking gender seriously in food sovereignty discourse. Land and food sovereignty. Contextualising food sovereignty: the politics of convergence among movements in the USA.

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