Re-thinking agrarian reform, land and territory in La Via Campesina

Rosset, Peter

doi:10.1080/03066150.2013.826654

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“…In addition, the land sovereignty frame treats the role of the state non-dogmatically, accepting that states both facilitate land dispossession and concentration, and offer potential opportunities for increased land access for non-elites (Borras & Franco, 2012, p. 7). Land sovereignty addresses redistribution, for economic (but also gender) justice; recognition and protection of the land rights and cosmologies of indigenous peoples; and attention to the intra-community inequalities around land that exist (Rosset, 2013). Land sovereignty's 'access' orientation focuses on what works with regard to democratizing land resources, and opens up food sovereignty to encompass a wider array of avenues toward land access.…”

Section: Land Sovereignty As Potential Unifying Frame?mentioning

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Broadening the Land Question in Food Sovereignty to Northern Settings: A Case Study of Occupy the Farm

Roman-Alcalá

2015

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Land access is an accepted corollary to food sovereignty, long promoted by the transnational agrarian movement La Via Campesina (LVC). LVC's land access politics have evolved with increased incorporation of diverse perspectives, but remain largely focused on achieving 'integral agrarian reform' in the global South. Here, I take a case where food sovereignty activists ('Occupy the Farm' (OTF)) occupied land owned by a public university in California, the USA, in order to broaden food sovereignty's land access considerations beyond the South, and to analyze conditions where political actions (including occupations) can help achieve changes in land access regimes. The OTF action was successful in challenging cultural norms about property and achieving access, partly due to the occupation having foregrounded multiple appealing narratives that invited participation and wider support. These narratives included agroecology versus biotechnologies; community/public access versus privatization; participatory versus bureaucratic governance structure; and green space/food production versus urban development. The article tests the use of the 'land sovereignty' frame in expanding food sovereignty's land politics, to encompass land contestation contexts globally and deal with the particular conditions surrounding lands. The case indicates that land occupations in the North are potentially useful-but uncertain, and very context-dependent-tactics to promote land and food sovereignty.

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Section: Land Sovereignty As Potential Unifying Frame?mentioning

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Broadening the Land Question in Food Sovereignty to Northern Settings: A Case Study of Occupy the Farm

Roman-Alcalá

2015

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“…7 Fue la primera ocasión en que se reunieron no sólo campesinos, sino representantes de comunidades indígenas, pastores, pescadores artesanales, pobladores urbanos y consumidores en torno a la agroecología -algo que ya había ocurrido para la reforma agraria y la soberanía alimentaria (MARTÍNEZ-TORRES y ROSSET, 2014;ROSSET, 2013). La declaratoria (LVC, 2015a) constituye un documento fundamental ya que por primera vez agrupó diversas visiones para definir, mediante el diálogo de saberes, lo que es la agroecología para los movimientos sociales.…”

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La agroecología en una encrucijada: entre la institucionalidad y los movimientos sociales

Giraldo¹,

Rosset

2016

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La agroecología está de moda. Es un acontecimiento nuevo con el cual ha aparecido una constelación de oportunidades que pueden aprovechar los movimientos sociales para avanzar en la transformación del sistema alimentario. Sin embargo, también ha emergido el riesgo de que sea cooptada, institucionalizada y despojada de su contenido político. Esta es la disyuntiva que analizamos en el presente artículo en clave de la ecología política: si la agroecología va a terminar siendo parte de la caja de herramientas del sistema agroindustrial para reestructurarse en el contexto de la crisis civilizatoria, o sí, por el contrario, se potenciará como una movilizadora alternativa política para transitar hacia la construcción de las alternativas al desarrollo.

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“…Both of these bodies of literature have also highlighted how MST members call upon peasant histories and identities, religious understandings, existing inequalities in land distribution, and constitutional requirements in making their demand for rights to land and food (see also MST, 2013 8 andRosset, 2011). Literature on la Via Campesina, meanwhile, has focused on the nature and effects of Via Campesina as a transnational actor, calling attention to the transnational factors driving peasant oppression (Weis, 2013;White et al, 2012), the history, practices and effects of Via Campesina (Borras Jr. 2010;Claeys, 2012;Holt-Gimanez, 2010;Martinez-Torres and Rosset, 2010;Rosset, 2013;Via Campesina, 2014;), and the novel nature of their demand for food sovereignty (Claeys, 2012;Dunford, 2014;Holt-Gimenez, 2009;Patel, 2007;Rosset, 2011). But existing literature has not rooted the novelty of this demand in the particular histories, cultures and political contexts of the grass roots peasant mobilisations, like the MST, that constitute the wider movement.…”

Section: Section Three: the Mst And La Via Campesinamentioning

confidence: 99%