Transnational Agrarian Movements Confronting GlobalizationSaturnino M. Borras, Jr., Marc Edelman, Cristóbal Kay Readers of this book will encounter peasants and farmers who struggle at home and traverse national borders to challenge the World Trade Organization and other powerful global institutions.
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Contents
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2 Peasants Make Their Own History
But Not Just as They Please | 37 |
HistoriesChallengesProspects | 61 |
4 La Vía Campesina and its Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform | 91 |
Transnational Peasant Networks and Grassroots Organizing in Brazil and South Africa | 123 |
6 Mobilizing Against GM Crops in IndiaSouth Africa and Brazil | 147 |
DemocratizationContestation and the Politics of Mobilization | 177 |
Agrarian and Environmental Movements in Indonesia | 209 |
9 Whose Rules Rule?Contested Projects to Certify Local Production for Distant Consumers | 239 |
10 Migrant Organization and Hometown Impacts in Rural Mexico | 267 |
Everyday Peasant Politics in China and the Implications for Transnational Agrarian Movements | 295 |
Local Resistance and the Potential for Solidarity | 323 |
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activists actors agendas Agrarian Change agrarian question agrarian reform agriculture alliances anti-GM areas argued ASOCODE biotechnology Borras Brazil campaign capital Central America China civil society claims coalitions collective action communities context countries countryside cultural debate diverse economic Edelman example exports farming food sovereignty forest forms GCAR global GM crops GMOs Greenpeace groups human rights IFAP impact important India indigenous Indonesia institutions issues Karen villagers KRRS labour land reform landless Latin America leaders maize McMichael ment Mexican Mexico Michoacán migrants MLAR mobilization Monsanto neoliberal networks NGOs participation peasant movements peasant organizations People’s political production programmes projects protest region remittances representation resistance sector Slow Food social movements South Africa strategies struggles Studies supermarkets sustainable TAMs Tatmadaw trade transformation transnational agrarian movements Transnational Peasant University Press urban Vía Campesina workers World Bank