Soberanía alimentaria desde el territorio: aprovisionamiento, prácticas cotidianas y el papel de las mujeres afrocolombianas en el mantenimiento de sistemas alimentarios (Traducción)

While social and political movements are the scale of action most often identified with food sovereignty-related struggles, everyday provisioning practices are critical for sustaining the distinctiveness and relative autonomy of localised food systems. We examine gendered provisioning in a Colombian, Afro-descendent community as a case study of how food sovereignty is enacted in daily life. Women’s everyday food provisioning practices nourish households, sustain socio-cultural and ecological relationships, and maintain greater self-sufficiency within market economy integration processes. Deeper analysis of gendered provisioning highlights complexities, power relationships and challenges within localised food systems and contributes to greater understanding of the gender dimensions of food sovereignty.Si bien los movimientos sociales y políticos son generalmente el ámbito de las luchas por la soberanía alimentaria, las prácticas cotidianas de aprovisionamiento son fundamentales para la persistencia de sistemas alimentarios locales y relativamente autónomos. En esta investigación examinamos el aprovisionamiento desde una perspectiva de género en una comunidad colombiana afrodescendiente como un caso de estudio de "soberanía alimentaria desde el territorio". Encontramos que las prácticas cotidianas de aprovisionamiento de las mujeres sostienen los hogares, mantienen las relaciones socioculturales y ecológicas y permiten una mayor autosuficiencia en el contexto de procesos de integración económica al mercado. Aproximarse al aprovisionamiento desde una perspectiva de género deja entrever las complejidades, relaciones de poder y desafíos que subyacen a estos sistemas alimentarios locales. Indagar sobre esta dimensión frecuentemente ignorada puede contribuir a identificar y comprender mejor el aporte de las mujeres a la construcción cotidiana de la soberanía alimentaria

Achieving Food System Resilience Requires Challenging Dominant Land Property Regimes

Although evidence continues to indicate an urgent need to transition food systems away from industrialized monocultures and toward agroecological production, there is little sign of significant policy commitment toward food system transformation in global North geographies. The authors, a consortium of researchers studying the land-food nexus in global North geographies, argue that a key lock-in explaining the lack of reform arises from how most food system interventions work through dominant logics of property to achieve their goals of agroecological production. Doing so fails to recognize how land tenure systems, codified by law and performed by society, construct agricultural land use outcomes. In this perspective, the authors argue that achieving food system “resilience” requires urgent attention to the underlying property norms that drive land access regimes, especially where norms of property appear hegemonic. This paper first reviews research from political ecology, critical property law, and human geography to show how entrenched property relations in the global North frustrate the advancement of alternative models like food sovereignty and agroecology, and work to mediate acceptable forms of “sustainable agriculture.” Drawing on emerging cases of land tenure reform from the authors’ collective experience working in Scotland, France, Australia, Canada, and Japan, we next observe how contesting dominant logics of property creates space to forge deep and equitable food system transformation. Equally, these cases demonstrate how powerful actors in the food system attempt to leverage legal and cultural norms of property to legitimize their control over the resources that drive agricultural production. Our formulation suggests that visions for food system “resilience” must embrace the reform of property relations as much as it does diversified farming practices. This work calls for a joint cultural and legal reimagination of our relation to land in places where property functions as an epistemic and apex entitlement

Achieving food system resilience requires challenging dominant land property regimes

International audienceAlthough evidence continues to indicate an urgent need to transition food systems away from industrialized monocultures and toward agroecological production, there is little sign of significant policy commitment toward food system transformation in global North geographies. The authors, a consortium of researchers studying the land-food nexus in global North geographies, argue that a key lock-in explaining the lack of reform arises from how most food system interventions work through dominant logics of property to achieve their goals of agroecological production. Doing so fails to recognize how land tenure systems, codified by law and performed by society, construct agricultural land use outcomes. In this perspective, the authors argue that achieving food system “resilience” requires urgent attention to the underlying property norms that drive land access regimes, especially where norms of property appear hegemonic. This paper first reviews research from political ecology, critical property law, and human geography to show how entrenched property relations in the global North frustrate the advancement of alternative models like food sovereignty and agroecology, and work to mediate acceptable forms of “sustainable agriculture.” Drawing on emerging cases of land tenure reform from the authors' collective experience working in Scotland, France, Australia, Canada, and Japan, we next observe how contesting dominant logics of property creates space to forge deep and equitable food system transformation. Equally, these cases demonstrate how powerful actors in the food system attempt to leverage legal and cultural norms of property to legitimize their control over the resources that drive agricultural production. Our formulation suggests that visions for food system “resilience” must embrace the reform of property relations as much as it does diversified farming practices. This work calls for a joint cultural and legal reimagination of our relation to land in places where property functions as an epistemic and apex entitlement

Do we need to categorize it? Reflections on constituencies and quotas as tools for negotiating difference in the global food sovereignty convergence space

Convergence–as an objective and as a process–designates the coming together of different social actors across strategic, political, ideological, sectoral and geographic divides. In this paper, we analyze the global food sovereignty movement (GFSM) as a convergence space, with a focus on constituencies and quotas as tools to maintain diversity while facilitating convergence. We show how the use of constituencies and quotas has supported two objectives of the GFSM: alliances building and effective direct representation in global policy-making spaces. We conclude by pointing to some convergence challenges the GFSM faces as it expands beyond its agrarian origins.</p

Les paysannes de la Vía Campesina et la souveraineté alimentaire

Cet article analyse la lutte que mènent les femmes des zones rurales contre la mondialisation de l’agriculture, en étudiant la participation de ces femmes au mouvement paysan transnational de la Vía Campesina. Je vais dans un premier temps étudier la signification du concept de « durabilité » tel qu’il est employé dans les processus dominants de formulation des politiques en matière d’agriculture, d’alimentation et de développement rural. J’analyserai ensuite le concept de « souveraineté alim..

“The WTO . . . will meet somewhere, sometime. And we will be there!”

Prepared for VOICES: The Rise of Nongovernmental Voices in Multilateral Organizations Financial support from CIDA and the Aspen Institute is gratefully acknowledged.Available on the web at: www.nsi- ins.c