ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on major themes discussed in the previous chapters of this book. The book focuses on social change and development in agriculture and food in Latin America, and addresses how agriculture and food unfold within the vitality of everyday experience. It draws on highly empirical research to illustrate how people play a crucial role in creating real-life events. By fulfilling democratic values, the book provides relevant instances capable of moving food debates beyond the present-day controversies over food security and sovereignty. It explores how people draw upon different repertoires of knowledge, assets, values, and forms of civic movement to create new forms of corporeality. Interested in strengthening the empirical grounding of food studies, the chapter views this as part of an ongoing reappraisal of the relationships embodied in food production, circulation, and consumption.
