Vía campesina’ struggle for the right to food sovereignty: From above or from below?

Priscilla Claeys

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-7778-1_2

Vía campesina’ struggle for the right to food sovereignty: From above or from below?

Priscilla Claeys

University of Louvain

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Abstract

The transnational agrarian movement La Via Campesina has successfully mobilized a human rights discourse in its struggle against capitalism and neoliberalism. As La Vía Campesina celebrates its 20th anniversary, this chapter proposes a critical overview of the right of peoples to food sovereignty. Looking at food sovereignty both as La Vía Campesina’s most prominent collective action frame and as a new collective human right, this chapter explores some of the challenges social movements are confronted with when using human rights. It discusses efforts by La Vía Campesina to achieve the international recognition of food sovereignty as a new human right and explores past and current challenges involved in the institutionalization of food sovereignty.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Rethinking Food Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Structural Challenges, New Strategies and the Law
Editors	Nadia C. S. Lambek, Priscilla Claeys, Adrienna Wong, Lea Brilmayer
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	29-52
Number of pages	24
ISBN (Electronic)	978-9-4007-7778-1
ISBN (Print)	978-9-4007-7777-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7778-1_2
Publication status	Published - 11 Jan 2014
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Food sovereignty
Human rights
Peasant movements
Trade
Via Campesina

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Environmental Science(all)

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Vía campesina’ struggle for the right to food sovereignty: From above or from below? / Claeys, Priscilla.
Rethinking Food Systems: Structural Challenges, New Strategies and the Law. ed. / Nadia C. S. Lambek; Priscilla Claeys; Adrienna Wong; Lea Brilmayer. Springer Verlag, 2014. p. 29-52.

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