Public Policies for Food Sovereignty

Annette Aurelie Desmarais is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Human Rights, Social Justice and Food Sovereignty, University of Manitoba, Canada. Priscilla Claeys is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR), Coventry University, UK.Amy Trauger is Associate Professor of Geography, University of Georgia, USA.

• 1 Introduction: Will the Revolution be Institutionalized? Part I States, Institutions and Food Sovereignty 2 State-Led Grassroots Participation and Ecuador’s Land Law 3 Exporting Zero Hunger: PAA Africa and the Possibilities of Food Sovereignty with South-South Cooperation 4 Community-Based Rights to Food Sovereignty: The case of the Local Food and Community Self-Governance Ordinances in Maine, USA Part II Power and Politics -- Social Movement Challenges to Institutionalizing Food Sovereignty 5 Institutionalizing Relational Sovereignties- Educational and Food Sovereignty within Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement 6 The Involvement of Community Supported Agriculture Networks in a Swiss Popular Initiative for Food Sovereignty 7 The Role of Land Rights in Social Transformation: Stories from Boston and Philadelphia 8 Food Sovereignty Struggles in Quebec: Co-optation and Resistance Part III Determining the Rules of Engagement -- Challenges Within Social Movements 9 Urban Food Policy Alliances as Paths to Food Sovereignty? Insights from Sustainable Food Cities in the UK 10 Understanding food sovereignty in Canada: Settler Colonialism and Indigenous-settler Alliances 11 Autonomy, Coalition-building, and Cultural Survival: Towards Food Sovereignty in the U.S. South 12 Youth Producing Food for an Alternative Society: Insights from the Basque Country