ABSTRACT
The fight for food sovereignty is a response to the current corporate food regime, one predicated on industrial modes of production, corporate concentration in supply chains, the patenting of seeds and biotechnology, and neoliberal trade policies that displace agrifood systems in poor and developing countries. While peasants throughout the Global South fare poorly as their land and labor are integrated into the global agrifood system often in the name of sustainable development many are also at the forefront of new peasant-based agrarian movements. The food sovereignty movement represents the most global and diverse challenge to the energy-intensive and global greenhouse gas (GHG)-emitting global agrifood system. An ecological debt has emerged whereby lifestyles of rich countries necessitate high levels of consumption and GHG emissions that disproportionately contribute to global climate change (GCC), ozone depletion, and fishery impacts for people living in poor countries. To mitigate these ecological and social impacts requires transforming the global agrifood system.
