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Contested Global Governance Space and Transnational Agrarian Movements

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An empirical, un-matched study of transnational movements deeply embedded in financialization theories.
“This is a very original book. Most analyses on financialization of food and ... Read More
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  • Publication Date: 21 September 2023
  • ISBN: 9781773636337
  • Pages: 144
  • Imprint: Fernwood Publishing
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This book is the first scholarly study of the new transnational agrarian movements (TAMs) from their perspective. It explores how they strategize within the global governance of agriculture to confront neoliberal aims of expanding capital penetration in the countryside. TAMs oppose this phase of financialization and instead foster a system based on agroecology and re-peasantization of production, valuing labour and natural resources over capital.

The book outlines how TAMs defend food sovereignty and oppose neoliberal policies in the context of climate change negotiations. It is written from their perspective, merging scholarship with activism through a methodology of observant participation.

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Price: $25.00
Pages: 144
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Imprint: Fernwood Publishing
Series: Critical Development Studies
Publication Date: 21 September 2023
Trim Size: 8.50 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9781773636337
Format: Paperback
“This is a very original book. Most analyses on financialization of food and agriculture are not linked to transnational agrarian movements, and most studies of transnational agrarian movements are not linked to financialization of food and agriculture. This book is the first attempt at combining analyses of the two. It is done from a scholar-activist perspective, making the book extra-ordinary and important.”
— Saturnino M. Borras Jr., International Institute of Social Studies (iss), Netherlands, co-author, Scholar-Activism and Land Struggles
Mauro Conti is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Calabria, Italy. He works as a consultant on family farming for FAO. He is the past global coordinator of the Secretariat of the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty and was serving as president and policy officer at Centro Internazionale Crocevia.

: Introduction: A Strategic Vision for the Agrarian Institutional Guerrilla
: Financialization and Capital Accumulation
: Globalization, Capital Accumulation and the Role of Agriculture
: Transnational Governance of Agriculture
: Climate Change and Family Farming: A Confrontation at the Agroecological Frontier
: Conclusion
: References