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La Via Campesina, Brazilian Peasants, and the Agribusiness Model of Agriculture: Towards an Alternative Model of Agrarian Democratic Governance
Abstract
Until recently, few people seemed aware of the importance of peasants,trade, and food politics in today’s political economic system. With the foodcrisis and the related financial, ecological, and energy crises, however, thesituation changed drastically. An increasing number of people, analysts, andgovernment officials are talking seriously about the need to transform theagribusiness model of agriculture that is devastating the ecosystem and smallscalefarming. With about half of the world population living in thecountryside, agriculture and agrarian reform have resurfaced as majorcontentious sociopolitical, cultural, and economic issues.1 In response tothe profound impact trade liberalization has on rural communities aroundthe world, mobilized small-scale farmers and peasants are emerging as keyplayers within alter-globalization movements.
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