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Preventing hunger: change economic policy: simply giving people food is not enough to prevent famine, says Peter Rosset. Instead, we need to overhaul the policies that have upended the food supply by Rosset, Peter

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Peter Rosset, Raj Patel, and Michael Courville, eds. Promised Land: Competing Visions of Agrarian Reform. Oakland, Calif.: Food First Books, 2006. xv + 380 pp. Tables. Notes. References. Index. $21.95. Paper by Manji, Ambreena

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World Hunger: Twelve Myths by Frances Moore Lappe, Joseph Collins, Peter Rosset, with Luis Esparza by Srinivas, K Ravi

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Agroecology as a territory in dispute: between institutionality and social movements by Giraldo, Omar Felipe, Rosset, Peter M.

“…Agroecology is in fashion, and now constitutes a territory in dispute between social movements and institutionality. This new conjuncture offers a…”
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Fernando  Funes, Luis  Garcia, Martin  Bourque, Nilda  Perez, and Peter  Rosset, eds. Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance: Transforming Food Production in Cuba . Oakland, Calif.: Food First Books, 2002. Pp. 320. $18.95 by Johnson, D. Gale

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La Vía Campesina: the birth and evolution of a transnational social movement by Martínez-Torres, María Elena, Rosset, Peter M.

“…The origin and evolution of the transnational peasant movement La Vía Campesina is analysed through five evolutionary stages. In the 1980s the withdrawal of…”
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Diálogo de saberes in La Vía Campesina: food sovereignty and agroecology by Martínez-Torres, María Elena, Rosset, Peter M

“…The transnational rural social movement La Vía Campesina has been critically sustained and shaped by the encounter and diálogo de saberes (dialog among…”
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Emancipatory agroecologies: social and political principles by Giraldo, Omar Felipe, Rosset, Peter Michael

“…We examine how the policies of governments and the projects of international agencies and many NGOs strip agroecology of its emancipatory potential. Adhering…”
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Rural Social Movements and Agroecology: Context, Theory, and Process by Rosset, Peter M., Martínez-Torres, Maria Elena

“…Rural social movements have in recent years adopted agroecology and diversified farming systems as part of their discourse and practice. Here, we situate this…”
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Preventing hunger: Change economic policy by Rosset, Peter

“…Simply giving people food is not enough to prevent famine, says Peter Rosset. Instead, we need to overhaul the policies that have upended the food supply…”
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Critical Latin American agroecology as a regionalism from below by Rosset, Peter M., Barbosa, Lia Pinheiro, Val, Valentín, McCune, Nils

“…Latin America has long been a hot bed for social movement organization and innovation, and for dialogue among different types of knowledge ('dialogo de…”
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Multi-criteria social sustainability assessment of highland maize monoculture in Northern Thailand using the SAFA tool by Leknoi, Unruan, Rosset, Peter, Likitlersuang, Suched

“…The Sustainability Assessment of Food and Agriculture System (SAFA) is a multi-criteria sustainability assessment tool developed by the Food and Agriculture…”
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The Campesino-to-Campesino agroecology movement of ANAP in Cuba: social process methodology in the construction of sustainable peasant agriculture and food sovereignty by Rosset, Peter Michael, Machín Sosa, Braulio, Roque Jaime, Adilén María, Ávila Lozano, Dana Rocío

“…Agroecology has played a key role in helping Cuba survive the crisis caused by the collapse of the socialist bloc in Europe and the tightening of the US trade…”
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Zero Budget Natural Farming in India – from inception to institutionalization by Khadse, Ashlesha, Rosset, Peter

“…This paper delineates the growth of Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) in India. From its origins as a peasant-led social movement in the state of Karnataka,…”
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Mediated territoriality: rural workers and the efforts to scale out agroecology in Nicaragua by McCune, Nils, Rosset, Peter M., Salazar, Tania Cruz, Saldívar Moreno, Antonio, Morales, Helda

“…The Spanish word formación can be translated as 'training' or 'education', but Latin American social movements use it as inspired by Che Guevara's notion of…”
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The Long Road: Rural Youth, Farming and Agroecological Formación in Central America by McCune, Nils, Rosset, Peter M., Cruz Salazar, Tania, Morales, Helda, Saldívar Moreno, Antonio

“…Across the globe, the countryside faces the "generation problem": Who will grow food when the current generation of aging small farmers and peasants…”
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Agroecology. Biological Resource Management . C. Ronald Carroll , John H. Vandermeer , Peter Rosset by Forcella, Frank

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Comparative analysis of the CLOC/Vía Campesina peasant agroecology schools in Latin America and the Caribbean by Magorie St Fleur, Peter Rosset, Cecilia Elizondo, Valentín Val

“…This article provides a comparative analysis of the schools or “peasant universities” of the Latin American Coordination of Rural Organizations (CLOC) and La…”
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Taking agroecology to scale: the Zero Budget Natural Farming peasant movement in Karnataka, India by Khadse, Ashlesha, Rosset, Peter Michael, Morales, Helda, Ferguson, Bruce G.

“…This paper analyzes how peasant movements scale up agroecology. It specifically examines Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF), a grassroots peasant agroecology…”
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Re-peasantization of indigenous youth as a strategy for territorial defense in Chiapas by Chahim Huet Macz, Peter Rosset, Saraí Miranda Juárez, León Enrique Ávila Romero

“…This document presents the results of a research study carried out with the objective of learning the perspective of young indigenous graduates of two…”
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