Ingeborg Gaarde

Peasants Negotiating a Global Policy Space (eBook, ePUB)

La Vía Campesina in the Committee on World Food Security

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

With members in more than 80 countries of the world, the global peasant movement La Vía Campesina has planted itself firmly on the international scene. With a focus on agency (the capacity to act), this book explores the opportunities and challenges for mobilised peasants to engage directly in the global policy processes within the Committee on World Food Security.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315444949
• Artikelnr.: 47903250

Autorenporträt

Ingeborg Gaarde holds a PhD in Sociology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France. She has ten years of experience working with social movements on five continents. She has divided her time between research and consulting for international NGOs and the UN, mainly on issues related to natural resources conflicts, tenure governance and involvement of civil society actors and participation in global policy-making processes.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Exploring Agency in a Global Movement 2. The Consolidation of an
International Peasant Movement 3. Carving Out an Autonomous Space for
Participation in the UN Committee on World Food Security 4. The UN
Committee on World Food Security as a Political Battlefield 5. From the
Plough to the UN Negotiation Table 6. Reaching Outwards and Looking Inwards
7. Main Tensions and Debates: Strategic Engagement with Others Final
Conclusions and Perspectives: Peasants' Agency in the Global Age Society