10. Eating Far from Home: Latino/a Workers and Food Sovereignty in Rural Vermont

Mares, Teresa M.; Wolcott-MacCausland, Naomi; Mazar, Jessie

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“…Clendenning and Dressler 15 look at the degree to which urban agriculture and other urban food initiatives might serve as building blocks toward food sovereignty in the US, while Roman-Alcalá 16 looks at a particular case in the Bay Area in which global food sovereignty framing is inspiring a local struggle over land. For Alkon, 17 worker-led initiatives are among the most promising bridges toward food sovereignty in the US, while Minkoff-Zern 18 and Mares et al 19 note the unique challenges, as well as opportunities, facing farmworkers, vis-à-vis food sovereignty.…”

Section: Convergence In the Us Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Contextualising food sovereignty: the politics of convergence among movements in the USA

Brent¹,

Schiavoni²,

Alonso-Fradejas³

2018

Food Sovereignty

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As food sovereignty spreads to new realms that dramatically diverge from the agrarian context in which it was originally conceived, this raises new challenges, as well as opportunities, for already complex transnational agrarian movements. In the face of such challenges, calls for convergence have increasingly been put forward as a strategy for building political power. Looking at the US case, we argue that historically rooted resistance efforts for agrarian justice, food justice and immigrant labor justice across the food system are not only drawing inspiration from food sovereignty, but helping to shape what food sovereignty means in the US. By digging into the histories of these resistance efforts, we can better understand the divides that exist as well as the potential for and politics of convergence. The US case thus offers important insights, especially into the roles of race and immigration in the politics of convergence that might strengthen the global movement for food sovereignty as it expands to new contexts and seeks to engage with new constituencies.

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Section: Convergence In the Us Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…al describe how Latino farmworkers in Vermont have limited mobility for fear of being deported. 98 What does a path towards food sovereignty look like starting from this reality? And how can the movement provide support in those daily struggles?…”

Section: Convergence Throughout the Food Chainmentioning

confidence: 99%