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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “priscilla claeys”
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  • Human Rights and the Food Sovereignty Movement

    Reclaiming control

    by Priscilla Claeys ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
    Our global food system is undergoing rapid change. Since the global food crisis of 2007-2008, a range of new issues have come to public attention, such as land grabbing, food prices volatility, agrofuels and climate change. Peasant social movements are trying to respond to these challenges by organizing from the local to the global to demand food sovereignty. As the transnational agrarian movement ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Rethinking Food Systems

    Structural Challenges, New Strategies and the Law

    Edited by Priscilla Claeys, Adrienna Wong, Lea Brilmayer, Nadia C.S. Lambek ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Taking as a starting point that hunger results from social exclusion and distributional inequities and that lasting, sustainable and just solutions are to be found in changing the structures that underlie our food systems, this book examines how law shapes global food systems and their ongoing transformations. Using detailed case studies, historical mapping and legal analysis, the contributors ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Public Policies for Food Sovereignty

    Social Movements and the State

    Edited by Annette Aurelie Desmarais, Priscilla Claeys, Amy Trauger ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
    An increasing number of rural and urban-based movements are realizing some political traction in their demands for democratization of food systems through food sovereignty. Some are pressuring to institutionalize food sovereignty principles and practices through laws, policies, and programs. While the literature on food sovereignty continues to grow in volume and complexity, there are a number of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • The Deserter's Tale

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