ABSTRACT
This chapter examines developments in the food and agriculture movement - the social movement home for a Canadian organisation, Food Share. The labour movement's relative success arises in great part from labour's comparatively greater resources. Well-financed unions, which already enjoyed a tradition of working together for many years, responded to the challenge of North American Free Trade Agreement by building cross-border labour networks. Many have argued that the most successful movement of the last hundred years is the women's movement. An analysis of its success shows a politics that worked successfully on multiple planes: rooting itself in grassroots movement, lobbying at the level of the nation-state, and eventually exercising agency in the global arena. Many governments in the world, particularly in the member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, have subsidised their food and agriculture sector for decades. The chapter concludes with observations about how resistance movements could be more effectively organised in the future.
