Food sovereignty and new peasantries: on re-peasantization and counter-hegemonic contestations in the Basque territory

Calvário, Rita

doi:10.1080/03066150.2016.1259219

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“…How can state funding shift from the current emphasis on top-down technological fixes, towards appropriately supporting the decentralised social learning processes being advanced by social movements? Similarly, how can farmers and other actors meaningfully participate in transformative agroecological learning on a long-term basis given the precarity of their own material circumstances (Calvário 2017;Pimbert 2011). Although we have focused on collective learning processes as a social movement strategy, further work is needed to understand how this social-political pedagogy is connected to individual transformative learning processes (e.g.…”

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Transformative agroecology learning in Europe: building consciousness, skills and collective capacity for food sovereignty

2018

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Agroecology has been proposed as a key building block for food sovereignty. This article examines the meaning, practices and potentials of 'transformative agroecology learning' as a collective strategy for food system transformation. Our study is based on our qualitative and action research with the European Coordination of Via Campesina to develop the European Agroecology Knowledge Exchange Network (EAKEN). This network is linked to the global network of La Via Campesina and builds on the strong experiences and traditions of popular education in Latin American peasant movements. Rather than focusing on agroecology education as a process of individual learning, we analyse how a transformative agroecology education can be strengthened as a critical repertoire of action used by social movements to advance food sovereignty. Our analysis contributes a new theory of transformative agroecology learning based on four key characteristics or qualities: horizontalism; diálogo de saberes (wisdom dialogues); combining practical and political knowledge; and building social movement networks. While these different elements of transformative agroecology learning were present across EAKEN, they were unevenly developed and, in many cases, not systematized. The framework can help to strategically and reflexively systematize and strengthen a transformative agroecology learning approach as a key building block for food sovereignty.

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Transformative agroecology learning in Europe: building consciousness, skills and collective capacity for food sovereignty

2018

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“…Born clandestinely in 1976, EHNE-Bizkaia has a history of left-wing political activism to 'defend baserritarras and dignify their work', as Unzalu Salterain, the current coordinator of the organisation, explains. It now represents about ten per cent of farmers in the province of Bizkaia (Calvário 2017). Throughout much of its existence, EHNE-Bizkaia has adopted an 'outward-lookingness', as Doreen Massey would put it.…”

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“…only accessible to some sectors of the population. Also, many producers only manage to set prices low while accommodating the burden of higher costs of living namely by increasing self-provision and adding working hours in an already labour-intensive model (Calvário 2017). Consequently, Unzalu suggests a 'restructuring of the entire agrifood system' away from corporate control, with the intervention of the state, is required.…”

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“…More than half of EHNE-Bizkaia's affiliates are lifelong farmers who are over 50 years old and practice conventional farming. The others engage in agroecological farming and their background varies from being children of farmers and landless rural workers, to having no background in farming (Calvário 2017). Most baserritarras who participate in Nekasarea are new and young producers.…”

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“…Although all of our interviewees recognise the important work of the union, some ideologically rejected hierarchical forms of organisation like trade-unions, whereas others argued they lacked time for militancy. In fact, alternative models are time-consuming and demand much attention in addition to the daily activities on the farm thus effectively placing limitations to a more active political participation (Calvário 2017). All these issues pose important challenges for EHNE-Bizkaia: how best to rebuild imaginaries of collective action while adapting forms of organising that fit and emerge from the needs and the aspirations of the subaltern?…”

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Solidarities from Below in the Making of Emancipatory Rural Politics: Insights from Food Sovereignty Struggles in the Basque Country

2019

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Exclusionary and regressive politics are on the rise globally. How do food sovereignty struggles help counter these forces? We ground our analysis on how EHNE-Bizkaia, a Vía Campesina member organisation in the Basque Country, conceptualises and practices food sovereignty. Inspired by Massey's 'politics of place beyond place' and Featherstone's work on left politics and solidarity, we shed light on the ways that this organisation mobilises food sovereignty to establish political bonds between those marginalised by neo-liberalism, helping to construct political identities and enact forms of subaltern agency that challenge uneven power relations and geographies. We argue that 'solidarity from below' is key in building an emancipatory rural politics rooted in class-based alliances, intersectionality, and internationalism as well as non-exclusionary notions of sovereignty. The article provides theoretical and empirical insights on what constitutes an emancipatory politics of food sovereignty that has the potential to act as a counterforce to right-wing populism. Calvário et al.

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Gender equity as a key element for agroecological transitions: Neo‐rural women as managers of agroecological initiatives

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Gender equity is considered to be a key element for the agroecological transitions of agri‐food systems and sustainable transformation of socioecological systems. Many women have recently become agroecological farmers. Few studies have examined this phenomenon and its potential implications for the agri‐food system and in rural areas, where men's experiences are still considered to be universal, from a gender‐focused perspective. We conducted semi‐structured interviews with 15 women leading agroecological initiatives in the Madrid region and performed content and critical discourse analyses of the interview transcripts to examine: (1) the women's motivations for agroecological project initiation; (2) the influences of the project composition, women's marital status and their trajectories in agroecological initiatives; and (3) the barriers they face and strategies they have developed to overcome difficulties. All interviewees highlighted political and lifestyle motivations, that is, based on environmental and agroecological ideals, such as liking to work closely with nature generating positive impacts on the territory and the pleasure of doing what they wanted. Motivations and barriers varied according to origin; neo‐rural women faced the most difficulties, although all interviewees reported gender‐specific barriers. We propose pathways to integrate the plurality of actors and values and to promote new rural identities that fall from traditional stereotypes to enhance gender equity and move towards a true agroecological transition. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Food sovereignty and new peasantries: on re-peasantization and counter-hegemonic contestations in the Basque territory

Cited by 41 publications

References 18 publications

Transformative agroecology learning in Europe: building consciousness, skills and collective capacity for food sovereignty

Transformative agroecology learning in Europe: building consciousness, skills and collective capacity for food sovereignty

Solidarities from Below in the Making of Emancipatory Rural Politics: Insights from Food Sovereignty Struggles in the Basque Country

Gender equity as a key element for agroecological transitions: Neo‐rural women as managers of agroecological initiatives

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