- Title
- Food sovereignty and community economies: researching a Spanish case study
- Creator
- Gordon, Rhyall
- Relation
- Routledge Handbook of Community Development Research p. 210-222
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315612829
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- The food sovereignty movement is at the forefront of both the practice of sustainable agriculture and the debates around the politics of food. The movement's concept of sustainable agriculture encompasses issues such as women's rights, access to land, control over seeds and the fundamental interdependence of environmental, social and economic practices. It advocates an approach to economics that supports small-scale and family farmers. More specifically, the food sovereignty movement argues for economic justice through non-capitalist forms of sustainable agriculture. But what tools might researchers use to analyse and understand these non-capitalist food sovereignty economies? In this chapter I explore the economic practices of food sovereignty collectives in the province of Asturias in the north of Spain. I draw on Gibson-Graham's concept of community economy, and in particular her ethical coordinates, to unpack the collectives' diverse economic practices (Gibson-Graham, 2006, pp. 87-97).
- Subject
- food sovereignty; community economies; case study; Spain
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1403271
- Identifier
- uon:35146
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781472469014
- Language
- eng
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