"Food sovereignty" expresses a complex concept, the key elements of which are attributable to a unitary matrix of political, social and economic order. It is, in other words, a political plan which is alternative to the neoliberal model, which on a global level dominates the agro-food sector....

Global food value chains : a conceptual guide -- Rents, power and governance in global value chains -- The financialization of land and agriculture : mechanisms, implications and responses -- Agriculture, end to end -- New forms of financing the agricultural sector in Brazil : the experience of...

Andrea suggests that the internationally accepted understanding of access to food as a human right has been violated by the current trend toward what Marx has aptly termed the commodification of food. Food markets need regulation, Andrea argues, because they affect the lives of billions of...