JPS on agrarian movements & food sovereignty – free until March 31

Thanks to Mindi for pointing this out. Nothing about China here, but of interest to people concerned with rural issues.

The Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS) has published during the past couple of years several cutting-edge articles on (trans)national agrarian movement politics, food sovereignty and La Via Campesina. Several of these articles can be downloaded free of charge from the journal website until 31st March 2011.

Marc Edelman and Carwil James (2011) Peasants’ rights and the UN system: quixotic struggle? Or emancipatory idea whose time has come? JPS, 38(1)

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g932370015



Joan Martinez-Alier (2011) The EROI of agriculture and its use by the Via Campesina, JPS, 38(1)

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g932370015



Eric Holt-Gimenez and Annie Shattuck (2011) Food crises, food regimes and food movements: rumblings of reform or tides of transformation? JPS, 38(1)

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g932370015



Peter Michael Rosset, Braulio Machin Sosa, Adilén María Roque Jaime and Dana Rocío Ávila Lozano (2011) The Campesino-to- Campesino agroecology movement of ANAP in Cuba: social process methodology in the construction of sustainable peasant agriculture and food sovereignty, JPS 38(1) http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g932370015


Oliver Pye (2010) The Biofuel Connection – Transnational Activism and the Palm Oil Boom, JPS, 37(4) http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g927244768



Bernardo Mançano Fernandes, Clifford Andrew Welch and Elienaí Constantino Gonçalves (2010) Agrofuel Politics in Brazil: Para­digmatic and Territorial Disputes, JPS 37(4)

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g927244768\



Jeff Boyer (2010) Food Security, Food Sovereignty, and Local Challenges for Transnational Peasant Movements: The Honduras Case, JPS 37(2)

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g921502978



Nashieli Rangel Loera (2010) Encampment Time: An anthropological analysis of the land occupations in Brazil, JPS 37(2) http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g921502978



Sergio Schneider and Paulo André Niederle (2010) Resistance strategies and rural livelihood diversification: the construction of autonomy among Brazilian family farmers, JPS 37(2)

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g921502978



Eric Holt-Gimenez, Guest editor (2010) Grassroots Voices Section: Linking farmers’ movements for advocacy and practice, JPS 37(1)

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g918809762



Wendy Wolford (2010) Participatory democracy by default: land reform, social movements and the state in Brazil, JPS 37(1) http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g918809762 <http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g918809762>



Maria Elena Martinez-Torres & Peter Michael Rosset (2010) La Via Campesina: the birth and evolution of a transnational social movement, JPS 37(1) http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g918809762


Ryan Isakson (2009) No hay ganancia en la milpa: the agrarian question, food sovereignty, and the on-farm conservation of agro­biodiversity in the Guatemalan highlands, JPS 36(4)

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g917022268



Hannah Wittman (2009) Reworking the metabolic rift: La Vía Campesina, agrarian citizenship, and food sovereignty, JPS 36(4)

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g917022268



Ian Scoones (2009). The politics of global assessments: the case of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development, JPS 36(3).

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g916400439



Raj Patel, guest editor (2009) Grassroots Voices Section: What does food sovereignty look like?, JPS 36(3)

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g916400439



Jonathan Fox, Carlos García Jiménez and Libby Haight (2009) Rural democratization in Mexico’s deep south: grassroots right-to-know campaigns in Guerrero, JPS 36(2)

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g913348896

Marc Edelman (2009) Synergies and tensions between rural social movements and professional researchers, JPS 36(1) http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g911010938