Peasants' rights and agrarian violence in transitional settings: From transitional justice to transformative agrarian justice

Hoddy, Eric

doi:10.1080/14754835.2020.1850242

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“…Seventy percent of those who suffer from the most acute forms of hunger are small-scale producers and rural workers (UNCTAD, 2013). Moreover, recent years have seen increasingly criminalization of and violence against social movements fighting for land and water (Hoddy, 2021). While Member States remain the primary voting members of the CFS, the CSM and PSM were invited to participate in setting the agenda and negotiating policy recommendations within the CFS (Duncan, 2015;McKeon, 2015).…”

Section: The Food Sovereignty Countermovement: Agrarian Crisis and Cfs Reformmentioning

confidence: 99%

UN Food Systems Summit 2021: Dismantling Democracy and Resetting Corporate Control of Food Systems

Canfield

Anderson

McMichael

2021

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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This article analyzes the development and organization of the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), which is being convened by UN Secretary General António Guterres in late 2021. Although few people will dispute that global food systems need transformation, it has become clear that the Summit is instead an effort by a powerful alliance of multinational corporations, philanthropies, and export-oriented countries to subvert multilateral institutions of food governance and capture the global narrative of “food systems transformation.” This article places the upcoming Summit in the context of previous world food summits and analyzes concerns that have been voiced by many within civil society. It elaborates how the current structure and forms of participant recruitment and public engagement lack basic transparency and accountability, fail to address significant conflicts of interest, and ignore human rights. As the COVID-19 pandemic illuminates the structural vulnerabilities of the neoliberal model of food systems and the consequences of climate change for food production, a high-level commitment to equitable and sustainable food systems is needed now more than ever. However, the authors suggest that the UNFSS instead seems to follow a trajectory in which efforts to govern global food systems in the public interest has been subverted to maintain colonial and corporate forms of control.

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Section: The Food Sovereignty Countermovement: Agrarian Crisis and Cfs Reformmentioning

confidence: 99%

UN Food Systems Summit 2021: Dismantling Democracy and Resetting Corporate Control of Food Systems

Canfield

Anderson

McMichael

2021

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

153

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“…Setenta por ciento de los que padecen las formas más agudas de hambre, son pequeños productores y trabajadores rurales [21]. Además, en los últimos años se ha visto una creciente criminalización y violencia contra los movimientos sociales que luchan por la tierra y agua [22]. Si bien los Estados miembros siguen siendo los principales miembros con derecho a voto del CFS, se invitó al MSC y al PSM a participar en el establecimiento de la agenda y la negociación de recomendaciones de políticas dentro del CFS [23,24].…”

Section: Transformaciones Neoliberales: Acuerdos De Libre Comercio Y ...unclassified

Cumbre de Sistemas Alimentarios de la ONU 2021: Desmantelando la democracia y restableciendo el control corporativo de los sistemas alimentarios

2022

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Este artículo analiza el desarrollo y la organización de la Cumbre de Sistemas Alimentarios de las Naciones Unidas (UNFSS), que está siendo convocada por el Secretario General de la ONU, António Guterres, a finales de 2021. Aunque pocas personas discutirán que los sistemas alimentarios globales necesitan transformación, ha quedado claro que la Cumbre es, en cambio, un esfuerzo de una poderosa alianza de corporaciones multinacionales, organizaciones filantrópicas y países orientados a la exportación para subvertir las instituciones multilaterales de gobernanza alimentaria y capturar la narrativa global de la “transformación de los sistemas alimentarios”. Este artículo sitúa la próxima Cumbre en el contexto de cumbres mundiales sobre la alimentación anteriores y analiza las preocupaciones expresadas por muchos miembros de la sociedad civil. Explica cómo la estructura y las formas actuales de reclutamiento de participantes y compromiso público carecen de transparencia y rendición de cuentas básicas, no logran abordar conflictos de intereses significativos e ignorar los derechos humanos. A medida que la pandemia de COVID-19 ilumina las vulnerabilidades estructurales del modelo neoliberal de los sistemas alimentarios y las consecuencias del cambio climático para la producción de alimentos, ahora más que nunca se necesita un compromiso de alto nivel con los sistemas alimentarios equitativos y sostenibles. Sin embargo, los autores sugieren que el UNFSS, en cambio, parece seguir una trayectoria en la que los esfuerzos para gobernar los sistemas alimentarios globales en el interés público han sido subvertidos para mantener el colonialismo y formas corporativas de control.

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“…The notion of transformative 'agrarian' justice was developed by interrogating the pre-and post-conflict and transition issues that peasants and other people in rural areas face, and their significance for building future peace and stability (Hoddy 2021). It drew on Paul Gready and Simon Robins' (2014) influential critique of transitional justice to interrogate the limitations in the way the field has engaged with peasants as a distinct social group, including the social, economic and political issues they face and the agrarian structures and processes that underlie ongoing violence against them.…”

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“…Finally, the transformative actions identified may provide a framework for 'barking back' at international actors and transitional justice blueprints, and the ways in which the latter may be applied or reconfigured, distorted and undermined in domestic political arenas. With regard to structural and systemic violence in agrarian settings, there are very real tensions between the kinds of deep, structural changes often desired by rural-based social movements and organizations on the one hand, and the priorities of fields like transitional justice and peacebuilding and of domestic rural elites on the other that promote or are more accommodating of neoliberal economic agendas (Hoddy 2021). Community organizing and advocacy work may intervene before or during a transitional justice process to impact the actions and activities of transitional justice actors in rendering justice processes more accountable and responsive to the needs, priorities and interests of rural communities.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In a recent article in the Journal of Human Rights, I suggested the practices and activities of the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT) during Brazil's transition to democracy (1979)(1980)(1981)(1982)(1983)(1984)(1985)(1986)(1987)(1988)(1989)(1990)) may be a useful source of insights for academics and practitioners concerned with delivering 'transformative agrarian justice' (Hoddy 2021). This suggestion was made in the context of a discussion around peasant rights issues and agrarian violence in transitional justice, and of the actors, organizations and processes that may be involved in securing justice for rural populations.…”

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Transformative Justice in Practice: Reflections on the Pastoral Land Commission During Brazil’s Political Transition

Hoddy¹

2021

Journal of Human Rights Practice

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There has been a growing interest among transitional justice academics and practitioners in pursuing more transformative agendas for practice. There remain however few illustrations, if any, of work to deliver transformative justice in practice. This article considers the work of Brazil’s Pastoral Land Commission (CPT) during Brazil’s political transition as a potentially useful source of insights for practice. An organ of the Catholic Church and ecumenical in orientation, the CPT worked directly with marginalized communities to defend and promote the rights of small farmers and rural workers and peaceful solutions to land and labour conflicts. Its work was steered by a forward-looking vision of justice in which the violence, marginalization and exclusion of the past and present would be overcome by empowering rural populations to transform their social circumstances and address root causes. This article outlines the practices and activities through which the CPT sought to foster transformative change and reflects on what lessons these might hold for transformative justice in transitional settings.

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Peasants' rights and agrarian violence in transitional settings: From transitional justice to transformative agrarian justice

Cited by 9 publications

References 84 publications

UN Food Systems Summit 2021: Dismantling Democracy and Resetting Corporate Control of Food Systems

UN Food Systems Summit 2021: Dismantling Democracy and Resetting Corporate Control of Food Systems

Cumbre de Sistemas Alimentarios de la ONU 2021: Desmantelando la democracia y restableciendo el control corporativo de los sistemas alimentarios

Transformative Justice in Practice: Reflections on the Pastoral Land Commission During Brazil’s Political Transition

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