ABSTRACT
Food sovereignty is clear about decommodifying food and transforming the politicaleconomic foundations of the global food system/corporate food regime. Food sovereignty is also clear about the production of alternative subjectivities and the transformation of society. Food sovereignty is as much about changing systems of production as it is about something more fundamental and perhaps more ontologically threatening to capitalist modernity: the transformation of meaning, primarily around the meaning of capital, exchange and decision-making authority. All of these differences set food sovereignty outside the existing social movements for change in the food system, in terms of both what is resisted and how it is resisted. The narrative is less about how poor people have a right to food and more about how buying and selling land generates inequities that lead to poverty. It is about how people have rights to make decisions about production and consumption activities, and not just rights to food. It is also a narrative about how people have rights to a particular kind of life, and that corporations and transnational capital kill. It is a much more fundamental narrative, and it implicates both the state and capital for having complicity in bringing death and disease to the food system. It also looks elsewhere for solutions.
