scholarly journals Food sovereignty in Ecuador : The role of the peasant farmer

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Alberto Vasconcellos Fernandez
Keyword(s):  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Peasant Farmer

Patrick Kavanagh and the Authentic ‘Dispensation’: Rereading the Role of Narrator in The Great Hunger

2012 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Kilcoyne
Keyword(s):  
National Literature ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Peasant Farmer ◽  
Nineteen Forties ◽  
Death Knell

This essay posits a challenge to the continued reading of The Great Hunger (1942) as a realist depiction of the Irish small-farming class in the nineteen forties. The widespread critical acceptance of the poem as a socio-historical ‘documentary’ both relies upon and propagates an outmoded notion of authenticity based upon the implicit fallacy that Kavanagh's body of work designates a quintessence of Irishness in contradistinction to his Revivalist predecessors. In 1959 Kavanagh referred to this delusion as constituting his ‘dispensation’, for indeed it did provide a poetic niche for the young poet. Kavanagh's acknowledgement of this dispensation came with his rejection of all prescriptive literary symbols. While this iconoclasm is widely recognised in his later career, the relevance of The Great Hunger to this question continues to be overlooked. In fact, this poem contains his strongest dialectic upon the use of symbols – such as the peasant farmer – in designating an authentic national literature. The close reading of The Great Hunger offered here explores the poem's central deconstruction of ruralism and authenticity. The final ‘apocalypse of clay’ is the poem's collapse under the stress of its own deconstructed symbolism; the final scream sounds the death knell to Kavanagh's adherence to his authentic dispensation.

Nimíciwinán, nipimátisiwinán – “Our food is our way of life”: On-Reserve First Nation perspectives on community food security and sovereignty through oral history in Fisher River Cree Nation, Manitoba

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shailesh Shukla ◽  
Jazmin Alfaro ◽  
Carol Cochrane ◽  
Cindy Garson ◽  
Gerald Mason ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Community Food Security ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
Indigenous Foods ◽  
Oral History Interviews

Food insecurity in Indigenous communities in Canada continue to gain increasing attention among scholars, community practitioners, and policy makers. Meanwhile, the role and importance of Indigenous foods, associated knowledges, and perspectives of Indigenous peoples (Council of Canadian Academies, 2014) that highlight community voices in food security still remain under-represented and under-studied in this discourse. University of Winnipeg (UW) researchers and Fisher River Cree Nation (FRCN) representatives began an action research partnership to explore Indigenous knowledges associated with food cultivation, production, and consumption practices within the community since 2012. The participatory, place-based, and collaborative case study involved 17 oral history interviews with knowledge keepers of FRCN. The goal was to understand their perspectives of and challenges to community food security, and to explore the potential role of Indigenous food knowledges in meeting community food security needs. In particular, the role of land-based Indigenous foods in meeting community food security through restoration of health, cultural values, identity, and self-determination were emphasized by the knowledge keepers—a vision that supports Indigenous food sovereignty. The restorative potential of Indigenous food sovereignty in empowering individuals and communities is well-acknowledged. It can nurture sacred relationships and actions to renew and strengthen relationships to the community’s own Indigenous land-based foods, previously weakened by colonialism, globalization, and neoliberal policies.

scholarly journals Collective and Organic Farming in Tamil Nadu: Women’s Participation, Empowerment and Food Sovereignty

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dhruv Pande ◽  
Munmun Jha
Keyword(s):  
Organic Farming ◽  
State Government ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
The State ◽  
Women Farmers ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Marginalized Women

<p>The aim of this paper is to explore the notion of women’s participation, empowerment and food sovereignty among the marginalized women farmers in the state of Tamil Nadu in India. The women farmers who belong largely to the so-called lower castes have been marginalized due to the persistent presence of the patriarchal structure and the continued oppression and discrimination in a caste-ridden society. This is supported and supplemented by the policies and politics of globalization through the state apparatus. This research, based on the fieldwork method, highlights the hitherto undermined role of women farmers in the wake of their efforts at establishing enhanced and sustainable socio-economic relations in connection with the local agricultural land which accounts for their economic and social independence and sovereignty, especially food sovereignty. The process marking this transformation includes collective and organic farming based on millets leading to the creation of an inherent and integral food sovereignty vis-a-vis the increasing usurpation of agricultural land through the nexus of the state government and private companies. The paper also analyzes the issue of land ownership, litigation cases involving women, and the role of community organizations which impel the hitherto marginalized women towards self-sustainable, self-sufficient and self-governed environment in rural agricultural economy.</p>

scholarly journals SPIRITUAL ASPECTS OF V. LIPINSKY’S STATE CONCEPT IN THE INTERPRETATION OF I. MIRCHUK

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Close Connection ◽  
Peasant Farmer ◽  
History Of ◽  
Philosophical Doctrine

The article analyzes the views of I. Mirchuk on the philosophical doctrine of V. Lipinsky through the prism of the Ukrainian spirituality and mentality. I. Mirchuk called the antaeism a key component of the Ukrainian spirituality, which affected the development of the state-political life of the Ukrainian nation. That particular feature of the objective spirit of the Ukrainian people, according to the thinker, has been the cause of both positive and negative tendencies in the formation of statehood. The close connection between the Ukrainians and the land afforded ground for V. Lipinsky to give the role of the bearer of the modern Ukrainian state to the peasant farmer. In addition, the merit of V. Lipinsky according to I. Mirchuk, was that he put his national theory of statehood on his own motivations. Another sign of the spirituality of Ukrainians, to which I. Mirchuk drew particular attention, was the concept of messianism, formed by V. Lipinsky. I. Mirchuk was one of the first, who explained the essence of this concept of the thinker, which was that the leading stratum, and the whole nation behind it, consider themselves called by the highest forces to make an extremely important, predestined mission in the history of humanity. I. Mirchuk defined V. Lipinsky’s messianism as a form of love for his neighbor, transferred from the sphere of individual relationships to the large masses of peoples.

scholarly journals Food sovereignty, gender and everyday practice: the role of Afro-Colombian women in sustaining localised food systems

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Katherine L. Turner ◽  
C. Julián Idrobo ◽  
Annette Aurélie Desmarais ◽  
Ana Maria Peredo
Keyword(s):  
Food Systems ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Everyday Practice ◽  
Colombian Women

Transnational Food Law

2021 ◽  
pp. 268-290
Author(s):  
Matthew Canfield
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Agricultural Systems ◽  
Security Governance ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food Law ◽  
Transnational Actors ◽  
Agrarian Struggles ◽  
Organization Of Markets

Transnational food law is a growing field of practice that has emerged with the globalization of food and agricultural systems. This chapter analyzes the role of food and agriculture as a legally constitutive site of struggle. As both a basic need and an economic commodity, food is an object around which struggles over the organization of markets, the authority of legal institutions, and the regulation of powerful actors have consistently fomented. After surveying the role of agrarian struggles in shaping early international law, this chapter analyzes the contentious regulatory space of transnational food security governance. It argues that contemporary governance is shaped by competing paradigms—a “productivist” and “food sovereignty” paradigm—which transnational actors struggle to translate across a variety of regulatory institutions, arenas, and processes. This chapter thereby demonstrates how food and agricultural governance remain a critical space of struggle over the democratic and regulatory possibilities of global governance.

scholarly journals Peasant activism and the rise of food sovereignty: Decolonising and democratising norm diffusion?

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Dunford
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Diffusion Process ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Norm Diffusion ◽  
United Nations Declaration ◽  
La Via Campesina

‘Food sovereignty’ emerged from grassroots peasant mobilisations, and has been spread globally by a democratically organised social movement, la Vía Campesina. This process has seen food sovereignty influence global political discourse, transform national constitutions and be incorporated into a proposed United Nations declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas. By examining the role of grassroots actors in the global South in the construction of this emerging global norm, I militate against tendencies of West-centrism and elitism in existing literature on the contemporary diffusion of norms. By also discussing the potential marginalisation of grassroots peasant voices in recent United Nations discussions, I suggest that these elitist and West-centric tendencies may also exist in the norm diffusion process itself.

scholarly journals Sámi Gastronomy: the Role of Traditional Knowledge

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-49
Author(s):  
Ravdna Biret Marja E. Sara ◽  
Svein Disch Mathiesen
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Meat Quality ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Meat Tenderness ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Cold Temperatures

Traditional knowledge in food security is important for achieving sustainable food production systems. One example of food security is tenderness and meat quality. This article investigates the lack of Sámi reindeer herders' knowledge of meat tenderness and explores its relation to gastronomy and food sovereignty. Sámi family-produced reindeer meat is regarded as tender, while such meat is rarely available for visiting tourists. Therefore, a multidisciplinary approach combines different knowledge of meat tenderness in this article. When slaughtering in cold temperatures, a common slaughtering procedure is performed: dievás njuovvat (slaughtering reindeer outdoors on the ground) and bakkahit (a deliberate action of reindeer herder to leave the rumen inside the reindeer for tenderization). Decrease in intramuscular pH in sirloin, longissimus dorsi, from the baggan reindeer supports Sámi traditional knowledge of highquality meat. In the Sámi language there are a variety of concepts that include knowledge of slaughtering practices and quality of meat. This is the first scientific study of Sámi reindeer herders' traditional knowledge and their specialist language of reindeer meat quality. The Sámi language is a prerequisite for the food sovereignty governed by Sámi reindeer herders' families through generations, regardless of state policies and modernization. Everyday food from Sámi households could offer an important template for future Sámi gastronomy, and lead to stronger food sovereignty and improved food for visiting tourists.

scholarly journals Coalition Building and Maintenance: The case of Food Secure Canada (2001-2012)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Duni
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food System ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Coalition Building ◽  
Advocacy Coalitions ◽  
Advocacy Coalition

This study deals with the question of advocacy coalition formation and maintenance, in the specific case of Food Secure Canada (FSC), a pan-Canadian alliance of non-profit organizations and individuals working together to advance food security and food sovereignty in Canada. Using theoretical frameworks from literature on the Advocacy Coalition Framework and Resource Mobilization Theory, this dissertation provides a case study of FSC. Examining food civil society organizations in Canada from the 1970’s onward, this study provides insights on the social, economic and political context that surrounded the formation of FSC as an advocacy coalition. Through review of existing reports and documents produced by FSC and 21 semi-structured interviews this project provides insights into the role of coalition building and maintenance. The study provides insights on how advocacy coalitions form, maintain unity and deal with internal differences and how they utilize resources in overcoming organizational challenges. This study also explores how FSC built consensus around its three goals -zero hunger, a sustainable food system, and healthy and safe food - between 2001-2006 and how it managed to stir its Policy Framework of food security to food sovereignty between 2006-2012. This case study, will contribute to the literatures on food policy and advocacy coalitions with a focus on the role of coalition building and maintenance in the policy making process.

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