Food Security Governance

McKeon, Nora

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“…We support WTO-consistent, non-trade distorting special measures aimed at creating incentives for smallholder farmers in developing countries, enabling them to increase their productivity and compete on a more equal footing on world markets. (FAO, 2009, p. 4) Ignoring the existence, and value, of local markets, the value-chain project is largely geared to incorporating small producers into international markets, and to growth in agribusiness profit, turning farmers into farm labor on their own land (McKeon, 2014b;McMichael, 2013a). And the public sector is an important complement to this vision.…”

Section: The Value-chain Challengementioning

confidence: 98%

“…Contrary to liberal conceptions of individual (or market) rights, food sovereignty implies collective or group rights. This is expressed in grassroots resistance to 'food security' land grabbing (see, e.g., Kerssen, 2013;Klopp & Lumumba, 2014;McKeon, 2014b). The rights-based strategy builds on extant international rights instruments (the 1948 UN Declaration is a watershed convention), with the aim of expanding the realm of rights and concretizing them with social purpose.…”

Section: Human Rights Politicsmentioning

confidence: 98%

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The Land Question in the Food Sovereignty Project

McMichael

2014

Globalizations

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This essay explores the changing landscape of food sovereignty politics in the shadow of the so-called 'land grab'. While the food sovereignty movement emerged within a global agrarian crisis conjuncture triggered by northern dumping of foodstuffs, institutionalized in WTO trade rules, the twenty-first-century food, energy and financial crises intensify this crisis for the world's rural poor (inflating prices of staple foods and agri-inputs) deepening the process of dispossession. The circulation of food is compounded by global financial flows into enclosing land for industrial agriculture and/or speculation, challenging small producer rights across the world. Under these conditions, the terms of struggle for the food sovereignty movement are shifting towards a human rights politics on the ground as well as in global forums like the FAO's Committee on World Food Security. This includes in particular the need to develop a discursive politics to reframe what is at stake, namely the protection and support of a production model based on social co-operation, multifunctionality and ecologically restorative principles.

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Section: The Value-chain Challengementioning

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Section: Human Rights Politicsmentioning

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The Land Question in the Food Sovereignty Project

McMichael

2014

Globalizations

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“…Under this regime, 'food security' was represented as best achieved through the world market, under the aegis of the global grain traders. Th e crisis politicised this neoliberal representation and has arguably allowed a renewed understanding, particularly in UN agencies, of the importance of domestic food security (De Schutter 2011 ;McKeon 2015). Th e original concept of 'food security' was anticipated in the 1941 Atlantic Charter's vision of 'freedom from want', which in turn informed the creation of the UNFAO, with its mandate to stabilise world agriculture and establish global food security (Jarocz 2009 ).…”

Section: Food Security and Developmentmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Th is public-private partnership approach to agroindustrialisation is exemplifi ed by the G8-sponsored New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (NAFSN), dedicated to 'accelerating the fl ow of private capital' for poverty reduction via agricultural-led growth in at least ten African countries. NAFSN capitalises the land (for agro-industrial estates) and labour (as contract farming) under the control of international investors, traders, and retailers, promoting 'growth corridors' on the best lands and 'value chains' to leverage legitimacy (Paul and Steinbrecher 2013 ;McKeon 2014 ).…”

Section: Food Security Via Land Acquisitionmentioning

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Food Security, Land, and Development

McMichael

2016

The Palgrave Handbook of International Development

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IntroductionIn a fundamental sense, modern 'development' has been premised on replacing peasantries. Th is has been the case since the appearance of the fi rst monocultures in non-European colonies, 1 and it has informed understandings and theories of development over the last one and a half centuries as factory labour forces and industrial technology have emerged. Since the register of development is the (apparent) 2 absence of peasantries 3 in the Global North, this condition is projected as a universal goal-and has been written into representations of (capitalist and socialist) development from classical political economy through Rostow ( 1960 ) and Barrington Moore ( 1967 ) to contemporary World Bank and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) publications. Given the substantial agrarian features of the non-European world, its (development) future has been represented as one in which peasantries disappear. 1 C.L.R. James observed that slave labour systems in the Americas prefi gured the fi rst proletariat, insofar as extensive monocultures in Europe were disallowed at the time by guild laws and property relations ( 1963 ). 2 Nevertheless, the USA, UK, France, the Netherlands, and New Zealand have a percentage of small farms in the range of 10-25 % (Hilmi 2012 : 69). 3 'Peasantries' are diverse across time and space, sharing attributes of the 'farm as a place of labour, where… labour is provided by the family and mobilised within the community through relations of reciprocity' (Hilmi 2012 : 25).

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“…90 Compared to their historical experience in the meetings of the CFS and its host institution, the FAO, where their participation was largely episodic (confined to specific events such as the 2006 International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development) or discretionary (depending on the chair of a specific meeting opening up floor space for them), these gains are profoundly significant. 91 And crucially, civil society participants in the CFS have been able to see the impacts of their inclusion: shaping the terms of key debates, introducing new perspectives into the CFS's work, and influencing the content of important CFS outcomes. 92 Such instances of civil society impact on transnational policymaking are extremely rare, and further underscore the unique character of the CFS.…”

Section: The Reformed Un Committee On World Food Securitymentioning

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La Vía Campesina and the UN Committee on World Food Security: Affected publics and institutional dynamics in the nascent transnational public sphere

Brem-Wilson

2016

Rev. Int. Stud.

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The emergence of the transnational as a site and object of governance has triggered concern amongst both affected publics subject to these effects, and scholars keen to locate the democratic potentials therein. Increasingly, public sphere theory is being promoted as a lens for interrogating the democratic potential of the transnational. However the project of transposing public sphere theory from its Westphalian origins to the transnational has been frustrated by a lack of empirical examples in which the properties of a transnational public sphere can be easily identified. In this article, examining the encounter between La Vía Campesina and the UN Committee on World Food Security, I argue for the existence of a nascent transnational public sphere in the specific domain of transnational food and agricultural policymaking. The existence of this concrete example, I argue, defends public sphere theory’s transnational turn against either the charge of utopianism, or the need to suspend some of the framework’s core conditions in order to accommodate the ‘actually possible’. It also allows us to advance public sphere theory’s empirical research agenda, and in this article I introduce an analytical framework to take this further.

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Food Security Governance

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La Vía Campesina and the UN Committee on World Food Security: Affected publics and institutional dynamics in the nascent transnational public sphere

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