ABSTRACT
While other chapters in this book have tended to adopt a local or national lens to look at different forms of resistance, many have also alluded to the international connections that exist, whether through resistance to different food products, land conversion for export crops, market integration, or commoditization of local knowledge. Unsurprisingly, rural resistance is increasingly organized transnationally in Southeast Asia (Piper and Uhlin 2004). One could further argue that this tendency accelerated following the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis. In a context where one can witness the multiplication of transnational organizations, ranging from large multinational enterprises to small non-government organizations (NGOs), I examine here how transnational advocacy networks engage in debates on agrarian processes and offer support to peasant and rural-based movements, in particular looking at how transnational advocacy networks can link local-level rural concerns and struggles with global processes.
