ABSTRACT
Food sovereignty proponents seek fundamental social change, a transformation of society as a whole that can be achieved through the vehicle of food and agriculture. To better understand food sovereignty as an organizing frame for transformative social change, it is useful to conceptualize it as a process involving persistent, diverse and interconnected struggles. This means paying attention to the multiplicity of sites and the multifaceted nature of resistance to dispossession and inequality occurring in different parts of the world and understanding how they are connected. A range of factors, including history, social relations (class, race, gender, age), ecology, politics, and culture shape the particular nature of each food sovereignty struggle in any given place. Food sovereignty in Canada, for example, will be different than in Indonesia or Peru.
