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Title Food movements unite! : strategies to transform our food systems / edited by Eric Holt-Gimenez.

Imprint Oakland, CA : Food First Books, ©2011.

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 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  338.19 HOLT-GIMENEZ    Check Shelf
Description xviii, 348 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Food sovereignty : alliances and transformation / Paul Nicholson -- People need food sovereignty / Joao Pedro Stedile and Horacio Martins de Carvalho -- Without clarity on parity, all you get is charity : we can have any kind of food system we want / George Naylor -- Rural women and food security in West Africa / Tabara Ndiaye and Miriame Outtara -- Irrepressibly toward food sovereignty / John Wilson -- Transforming NGO roles to help make food sovereignty a reality / Fatou Batta [and others] -- Survival pending revolution : what the Black Panthers can teach the US food movement / Raj Patel -- Beyond voting with your fork : from enlightened eating to movement building / Josh Viertel -- Racism and food justice : the case of Oakland / Brahm Ahmadi -- Consciousness + commitment = change / Lucas Benitez -- The Food Chain Workers Alliance / Jose Oliva -- We eat, we decide / Xavier Montagut -- Local food key to local economic recovery / Ken Meter -- The transformative potential of the right to food / Olivier De Schutter -- Agriculture at the crossroads / Hans R. Herren and Angela Hilmi -- Now's the time to make it happen : the UN's Committee on Food Security / Nora McKeon -- Food sovereignty and climate justice / Brian Tokar -- Women's autonomy and food sovereignty / Miriam Nobre -- Transforming our food system by transforming our movement : from a conversation with Rosalinda Guillen -- Synopsis : food movements unite! Making a new food system possible / Eric Holt-Gimenez and Annie Shattuck.
Summary Food Movements Unite! lays out a new grassroots and social movements approach for creating a new food system. The leaders writing in this book call on us to come together to dismantle the industrial agri-foods complex and to construct local food systems based on food sovereignty. -- from cover.
Subject Food supply.
Agricultural productivity.
Food industry and trade.
Food supply -- Environmental aspects.
Agriculture and state.
Agricultural productivity. (OCoLC)fst00801250
Agriculture and state. (OCoLC)fst00801722
Food industry and trade. (OCoLC)fst00930843
Food supply. (OCoLC)fst00931196
Food supply -- Environmental aspects. (OCoLC)fst00931202
Added Author Holt-Gimenez, Eric.
ISBN 9780935028386
0935028382
9780935028393
0935028390
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