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Global Activism in Food Politics InternationalRelationsandDevelopmentSeries SeriesEditors AndréLiebich,ProfessorofInternationalHistoryandPolitics,GraduateInstitute ofInternationalandDevelopmentStudies,Geneva,Switzerland MarcGalvin,PhD,HeadofPublications,GraduateInstituteofInternationaland DevelopmentStudies,Geneva,Switzerland Astomorrow’schallengesbecomeincreasinglyglobalandtheNorth–Southdivide narrows, the International Relations and Development Series edited by the Gradu- ateInstituteinGenevareliesonanapproachtoglobalproblemsthatintegrates internationalrelationsanddevelopmentstudies.Itaimstopromoteresearchcon- centratingonglobalandmulti-levelgovernance,involvingtheUnitedNations andotherinternationalorganisationsaswellaskeyregionsandregionalorgani- sations.Thedistinctivenessofthisseriesliesinthecombinationofawidedisci- plinaryrange,includingpoliticalscience,internationaleconomics,international law,anthropologyandhistoryfromaninterdisciplinaryperspective. Titlesinclude: SeunghoonEmiliaHeo RECONCILINGENEMYSTATESINEUROPEANDASIA AlanaMann GLOBALACTIVISMINFOODPOLITICS PowerShift KatrinMilzow NATIONALINTERESTSANDEUROPEANINTEGRATION DiscoursesandPoliticsofBlair,ChiracandSchröder JeanZiegler,ChristopheGolay,ClaireMahonandSally-AnneWay THEFIGHTFORTHERIGHTTOFOOD LessonsLearned InternationalRelationsandDevelopmentSeries SeriesStandingOrderISBN978–0230–27988–9 (outsideNorthAmericaonly) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to usattheaddressbelowwithyournameandaddress,thetitleoftheseriesand oneoftheISBNsquotedabove. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke,HampshireRG216XS,England Global Activism in Food Politics Power Shift Alana Mann SeniorLecturerandDirectoroftheMasterofStrategicPublicRelations,Departmentof MediaandCommunications,UniversityofSydney,Australia palgrave macmillan ©AlanaMann2014 Foreword©JeanZiegler2014 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2014 978-1-137-34139-6 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noportionofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, SaffronHouse,6–10KirbyStreet,LondonEC1N8TS. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorizedactinrelationtothispublication maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. Theauthorhasassertedherrighttobeidentifiedastheauthorofthiswork inaccordancewiththeCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Firstpublished2014by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN PalgraveMacmillanintheUKisanimprintofMacmillanPublishersLimited, registeredinEngland,companynumber785998,ofHoundmills,Basingstoke, HampshireRG216XS. PalgraveMacmillanintheUSisadivisionofStMartin’sPressLLC, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY10010. PalgraveMacmillanistheglobalacademicimprintoftheabovecompanies andhascompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld. Palgrave®andMacmillan®areregisteredtrademarksintheUnitedStates, theUnitedKingdom,Europeandothercountries. ISBN 978-1-349-46509-5 ISBN 978-1-137-34140-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137341402 Thisbookisprintedonpapersuitableforrecyclingandmadefromfully managedandsustainedforestsources.Logging,pulpingandmanufacturing processesareexpectedtoconformtotheenvironmentalregulationsofthe countryoforigin. AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. AcatalogrecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheLibraryofCongress. This book is dedicated to the women and men engaged in the struggle for food sovereignty Somostierraparaalimentaralospueblos(Wearetheland,tofeedthe peoples) Argentina Kabuhanan,Kalusugan,Kalikasan(Foreconomy,forhealth,and forNature) Philippines Ocupar,resistir,produzir!(Occupy,resist,produce!) Brazil SurinDeclaration,2012 Contents ListofTables ix Foreword x Acknowledgements xii ListofAcronymsandAbbreviations xiv 1 Introduction 1 Afoodsystemincrisis 1 Civilsocietyresponds 2 WhyLaViaCampesina? 4 What‘powershift’? 5 Materialisingthenetwork 9 Framingforcollectiveaction 11 Outlineofthebook 12 Part I 2 AnUndemocraticFoodSystem 19 Thestateofglobalagriculture 19 Competingparadigms 21 Fromseedtoshelf,fromfarmtofork 23 Consumingcitizensandalternativefoodnetworks(AFNs) 25 Trustandgovernance 29 3 ThePeasantWay,ThroughFoodSovereignty 33 Adiscursiveshift–fooddemocracyversus thedevelopmentproject 34 Theinvisiblepeasantmobilises 39 Theevolutionofatransnationalsocialmovement 43 Halftheskyandhalfthefarmers 47 Aconceptinaction 49 Redistributivelandreform,frombelow 55 Achievinggenuinefoodsecurity 59 Buildingalliancesandrespondingtocrises 63 vii viii Contents Part II 4 Poor,RuralandIndigenous:The‘TrebleStruggle’of ChileanWomen 73 A‘neoliberalsuccessstory’ 75 Thegenderednatureofcitizenship 79 TheIndigenas 83 Resource-pooryetresourceful 86 Dealingwiththemedia 89 Campaignframingandanalysis 92 5 FromtheTequilaCrisistotheTortillaCrisis:TheCaseof MexicanAgriculture 97 ThecrisisoftheMexicancountryside 100 Tradeliberalisationanditsimpacts 101 Clientelismandcorruption 107 Empoweringlocalproducers 108 Campesinomedia 112 Campaignframingandanalysis 113 6 ChallengingNotionsofSovereignty:BasqueFarmers inUnion 117 An‘imaginedcountry’ 118 Aunionoffarmers 121 Thebroaderpoliticalcontext:Europe 123 TheCommonAgriculturalPolicy(CAP) 127 MobilisingagainsttheGMOthreat 132 Reconnectingproducersandconsumers 134 Campaignframingandanalysis 136 Part III 7 TheCampaignforFoodSovereignty20YearsOn 141 Shiftingpowerthroughtransnationalactivism 143 Theinfluenceofpoliticalcontexts 147 Framingfoodsovereignty 151 Seekingdemocraticmedia 154 Thefutureoffoodpolitics 163 Bibliography 170 Index 194 Tables 3.1 ThesixpillarsoffoodsovereigntydevelopedatNyèlèni, 2007(FoodSecureCanada,2012) 51 4.1 Summaryofcampaignframes–LaAsociaciónNacional deMujeresRuraleseIndígenas(ANAMURI)(adapted fromSnowetal.,1986;Ryan,1991) 94 5.1 Summaryofcampaignframes– AsociaciónNacionalde EmpresasComercializadorasdeProductoresdelCampo (ANEC)(adaptedfromSnowetal.,1986;Ryan,1991) 114 6.1 Summaryofcampaignframes–EuskalHerriko NekazarienElkartasuna(EHNE)(adaptedfromSnow etal.,1986;Ryan,1991) 137 7.1 Comparisonofdynamicsofnationalpublicsphere 149 7.2 Comparisonofcollectiveactionframes 155 ix
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