ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on food sovereignty campaigns in the Global North in order to investigate how the rise of these campaigns in locales outside of the Global South raises challenges of definition and implementation regarding food sovereignty principles in apparently affluent countries where the basic demands for the right to food and access to land and resources are not so visible. The central demands of food sovereignty in the Global South focus on access to productive resources, spaces for peasant production, moral economies, and the preservation of traditional, agroecological farming systems. By tracing the discursive framings of campaigns representing principles of food sovereignty in the Global North, the chapter illustrates how digital platforms operate within the wider communication ecology as ‘reflexive forms of activism’. Digital media can be an important strategic resource for collective identity-building within and between movements.
