Can the food sovereignty movement really play a role in systemic transformation? Freedom, egalitarian societies, and planetary boundaries

Abstract

From the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century, the belief that the industrial working class was destined to transform the world prevailed. That small-scale food producers and Indigenous Peoples might similarly be the vectors of systemic transformation seemed heretical to most intellectuals. Yet, I will argue that the combination of the demand for equality and freedom, planetary limits, and the crisis of the industrialization model creates a situation in which the alternatives and struggles by peasants, along with other ‘nature-carers’, are regaining a central place.

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