Tanya M Kerssen

Grabbing Power (eBook, ePUB)

The New Struggles for Land, Food and Democracy in Northern Honduras

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Grabbing Power explores the history of agribusiness and land conflicts in Northern Honduras focusing on the Aguán Valley, where peasant movements battle large palm oil producers for the right to land. In the wake of a military coup that overthrew Honduran president Manuel Zelaya in June 2009, rural communities in the Aguán have been brutally repressed, with over 60 people killed in just over two years. United States military aid--spent in the name of the War on Drugs--fuels the Honduran government's ability to repress its people. A strong and inspiring movement for land, food and democracy has grown over the last two years, and it shows no sign of backing down.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Food First Books
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Altersempfehlung: ab 16 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780935028447
• Artikelnr.: 38241050

Autorenporträt

Tanya Kerssen is a researcher at Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy

Inhaltsangabe

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Foreword by Eric Holt-Giménez Introduction: Grabbing
Power PART I: From Bananas to Palm Oil Chapter 1. The Aguán Valley: Land
for the People Chapter 2. The Decline of Agriculture and the Rise of the
Maquila Chapter 3. Grabbing Land and Power: The New Agro-Oligarchs Chapter
4. Militarization and the War on Drugs: Security for Whom? Chapter 5. The
War on Peasants PART II. Palm Oil and the Corporate Food Regime Chapter 6.
The Making of a "Food Like Substance” Chapter 7. Subsidizing Corporate
Expansion Chapter 8. Free Trade and Fast Food Chapter 9. Greening the
Regime, Part 1: Fueling the "Green” Economy Chapter 10. Greening the
Regime, Part 2: Ecotourism or Eco-colonialism? PART III. The New Aguán
Movements: Land, Resistance and Food Sovereignty Chapter 11. The New Cycle
of Struggle: A Sketch of Two Aguán Movements Chapter 12. Fighting
Fragmentation, Constructing Unity Chapter 13. Peasant-Controlled Palm Oil:
The case of Salamá Chapter 14. From Palm Oil to Food Sovereignty Chapter
15. Conclusion: Grabbing Power Back