POLS 196 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: World Food Summit, Food Sovereignty, Via Campesina
3 Apr 2020
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The guiding idea in multilateral development institutions (mdis) like the imf, world bank, Wto and un (fao, ifad, escap) is agricultural productivity. Large scale agriculture produces higher crop yields per hectare, but small-scale agriculture produces higher total output per hectare: small scale agriculture is more likely to produce other positive benefits as well: Food self-reliance must come before food trade because trade isn"t a path to food security: can reduce metabolic rift by incorporating costs of production that would otherwise be externalized in industrial systems. Via campesina was the movement from which food sovereignty emerged. In 1992 it emerged at a meeting of small farmer organizations and peasants in nicaragua. The following year they met in belgium for their first international conference. Identified themselves as a political movement: declared there would be no solution to food crises, malnutrition and global hunger without active participation of those that grow the food.
