Annette Aurélie Desmarais
Biographic Data
| ID | 105115 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Annette Aurélie Desmarais |
| GIVEN NAMES | Annette Aurélie |
| FAMILY NAME | Desmarais |
| SIGNATURE | DESMARAIS A A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manitoba |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9274-8838 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 188 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Land data for whom? The marketization, privatization and commercialization of land data management in Canada
Envisioning prairie agroecology: Farmer visual constructions of place-based ecological agriculture in Canada
Climate change is driving new challenges for farmers around the world, provoking a sense of urgency in the search for on-farm solutions and pathways to sustainable agricultural systems. While agroecology has gained recognition as a promising option for climate resilience, it remains nascent in the Canadian Prairies—a significant agricultural region dominated by large-scale conventional agriculture. Amid the sprawling fields of grains and oilseeds…
The feminist dimensions of food sovereignty: Insights from La Via Campesina's politics
Expanding and defending women's rights and eradicating women's oppression have become key to La Via Campesina and its conceptualization and practice of food sovereignty. In this paper, we analyze how gender equality and feminism have gained momentum within the movement, and how the work on gender issues configures a feminist politics and praxis at the global level. As LVC celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, we examine what difference women…
The good, the bad, and the ugly of COP26: A conversation with two food sovereignty activists
The 26th UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP (Conference of Parties) took place in Glasgow, Scotland in November 2021 amidst intersecting global crises. The rising number and intensity of unprecedented extreme weather events in many countries, increased knowledge about industrial agriculture’s significant emission contributions to the climate crisis, and the vulnerability of the global food system in the wake of COVID-19 shocks…
“It is the Wild West out here”: Prairie farmers’ perspectives on farmland investment and land concentration
This research builds on the emerging body of literature investigating the implications of changing land tenure relations in the Prairie Provinces, where over 70% of Canada’s farmland is located. Through an analysis of survey data collected in 2019 from 400 grain farmers, we address the following research questions: How are farmers experiencing changing patterns of land tenure and control at the local level? What challenges and opportunities do fa…
They call it progress, but we don’t see it as progress’: Farm consolidation and land concentration in Saskatchewan, Canada
Food sovereignty, gender and everyday practice: The role of Afro-Colombian women in sustaining localised food systems
While social and political movements are the scale of action most often identified with food sovereignty-related struggles, everyday provisioning practices are critical for sustaining the distinctiveness and relative autonomy of localised food systems. We examine gendered provisioning in a Colombian, Afro-descendent community as a case study of how food sovereignty is enacted in daily life. Women's everyday food provisioning practices nourish hou…
Soberanía alimentaria desde el territorio: Aprovisionamiento, prácticas cotidianas y el papel de las mujeres afrocolombianas en el mantenimiento de sistemas alimentarios (Traducción)
Si bien los movimientos sociales y políticos son generalmente el ámbito de las luchas por la soberanía alimentaria, las prácticas cotidianas de aprovisionamiento son fundamentales para la persistencia de sistemas alimentarios locales y relativamente autónomos. En esta investigación examinamos el aprovisionamiento desde una perspectiva de género en una comunidad colombiana afrodescendiente como un caso de estudio de "soberanía alimentaria desde el…
Risk and responsibility in the corporate food regime: Research pathways beyond the Covid-19 crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has focused renewed public attention on the risks and harms generated by a globalized, industrialized, and corporatized food system. This crisis reinvigorates the need for a research agenda that identifies compelling ways of holding key actors in the corporate food regime accountable for creating and profiting from systemic risk in the food system. We draw upon theoretical conceptions of "risk," "rights," and "(ir)responsibi…
Solidarities from Below in the Making of Emancipatory Rural Politics: Insights from Food Sovereignty Struggles in the Basque Country
Exclusionary and regressive politics are on the rise globally. How do food sovereignty struggles help counter these forces? We ground our analysis on how EHNE-Bizkaia, a Vía Campesina member organisation in the Basque Country, conceptualises and practices food sovereignty. Inspired by Massey's 'politics of place beyond place' and Featherstone's work on left politics and solidarity, we shed light on the ways that this organisation mobilises food s…
Scholar-activists in an expanding European food sovereignty movement
This article analyzes the roles, relations, and positions of scholar-activists in the European food sovereignty movement. In doing so, we document, make visible and question the political dimensions of researchers' participation in the movement. We argue that scholar-activists are part of the movement, but are distinct from the affected constituencies, put in place to ensure adequate representation of key movement actors. This is because scholar-…
Propiedad Agrícola Para Los Inversionistas O Las Inversiones Sociales? La Transformación De La Propiedad De La Tierra en Saskatchewan, Canadá/Propriedade Agrícola Para Investidores Ou Investimentos So…
Cada vez más se reconoce que el acaparamiento de tierras es un fenómeno global. En Canadá los inversionistas están especialmente interesados en las tierras de Saskatchewan, la provincia donde se encuentra el 40 por ciento de la tierra agrícola del país. Este artículo examina cómo el contexto político, económico y legal neoliberal ha cambiado y configurado los patrones de la propiedad de la tierra entre 2002 y 2014 en Saskatchewan. Nuestra investi…
Agrobiodiversity, Rural Transformations and Household Experiences of Globalised Change: A Case Study from Southern Bolivia
This paper examines reconfigurations of household economies and agrobiodiversity through the experiences and responses of rural households to local manifestations of globalisation and environmental change in the Central Valley of Tarija, Bolivia, from the 1950s to the present. Research participant narratives from seven study communities document a widely experienced regional shift from rain-fed agriculture and pastured livestock production for ho…
Investor ownership or social investment? Changing farmland ownership in Saskatchewan, Canada
Farmers, foodies and First Nations: Getting to food sovereignty in Canada
This paper examines how the concept and framework of food sovereignty has been incorporated in food policy agendas across diverse sectors of Canadian society, particularly in the work and discourse of the National Farmers Union, Québec's Union Paysanne, Food Secure Canada and movements for Indigenous food sovereignty. This analysis highlights both the challenges to conceptualizing food sovereignty and the tensions in defining inclusive policies t…
Voices From Maputo: La Vía Campesina’s Fifth International Conference
We are the men and women of the land. We are those who produce food for the world. We have the right to continue being peasants and family farmers, and to shoulder the responsibility of continuing to feed our peoples. We care for seeds, which are life, and for us the act of producing food is an act of love. Humanity depends on us, and we refuse to disappear. —“Declaration of Maputo: V International Conference of La Vía Campesina, October 19–22, 2…
Peasant Resistance to Neoliberalism: La Via Campesina and Food Sovereignty
Since emerging in 1993, La Vía Campesina has become a powerful voice of opposition to the globalization of a modern, industrial and neoliberal model of rural development. By “building unity within diversity” La Vía Campesina pulls together rural movements to work for an alternative model of agriculture and community based on food sovereignty. This article sheds light on La Vía Campesina's contributions to this growing food sovereignty movement
The power of peasants: Reflections on the meanings of La Vía Campesina
La Vía Campesina (LVC) has emerged as a powerful global voice for peasant farmers. This paper explores the meanings of LVC for its members and the implications of its claims for contemporary understandings of peasant politics. It argues that LVC represents a significant shift in peasant politics, from a focus on national-level struggles to a more globalized and transnational form of activism. LVC's success lies in its ability to articulate a shar…
Tangled Routes: Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail
Farmers, foodies and First Nations: Getting to food sovereignty in Canada
This paper examines how the concept and framework of food sovereignty has been incorporated in food policy agendas across diverse sectors of Canadian society, particularly in the work and discourse of the National Farmers Union, Québec's Union Paysanne, Food Secure Canada and movements for Indigenous food sovereignty. This analysis highlights both the challenges to conceptualizing food sovereignty and the tensions in defining inclusive policies t…
The power of peasants: Reflections on the meanings of La Vía Campesina
La Vía Campesina (LVC) has emerged as a powerful global voice for peasant farmers. This paper explores the meanings of LVC for its members and the implications of its claims for contemporary understandings of peasant politics. It argues that LVC represents a significant shift in peasant politics, from a focus on national-level struggles to a more globalized and transnational form of activism. LVC's success lies in its ability to articulate a shar…
Investor ownership or social investment? Changing farmland ownership in Saskatchewan, Canada
Food sovereignty, gender and everyday practice: The role of Afro-Colombian women in sustaining localised food systems
While social and political movements are the scale of action most often identified with food sovereignty-related struggles, everyday provisioning practices are critical for sustaining the distinctiveness and relative autonomy of localised food systems. We examine gendered provisioning in a Colombian, Afro-descendent community as a case study of how food sovereignty is enacted in daily life. Women's everyday food provisioning practices nourish hou…
The feminist dimensions of food sovereignty: Insights from La Via Campesina's politics
Expanding and defending women's rights and eradicating women's oppression have become key to La Via Campesina and its conceptualization and practice of food sovereignty. In this paper, we analyze how gender equality and feminism have gained momentum within the movement, and how the work on gender issues configures a feminist politics and praxis at the global level. As LVC celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, we examine what difference women…
Scholar-activists in an expanding European food sovereignty movement
This article analyzes the roles, relations, and positions of scholar-activists in the European food sovereignty movement. In doing so, we document, make visible and question the political dimensions of researchers' participation in the movement. We argue that scholar-activists are part of the movement, but are distinct from the affected constituencies, put in place to ensure adequate representation of key movement actors. This is because scholar-…
Solidarities from Below in the Making of Emancipatory Rural Politics: Insights from Food Sovereignty Struggles in the Basque Country
Exclusionary and regressive politics are on the rise globally. How do food sovereignty struggles help counter these forces? We ground our analysis on how EHNE-Bizkaia, a Vía Campesina member organisation in the Basque Country, conceptualises and practices food sovereignty. Inspired by Massey's 'politics of place beyond place' and Featherstone's work on left politics and solidarity, we shed light on the ways that this organisation mobilises food s…
They call it progress, but we don’t see it as progress’: Farm consolidation and land concentration in Saskatchewan, Canada
Land data for whom? The marketization, privatization and commercialization of land data management in Canada
Risk and responsibility in the corporate food regime: Research pathways beyond the Covid-19 crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has focused renewed public attention on the risks and harms generated by a globalized, industrialized, and corporatized food system. This crisis reinvigorates the need for a research agenda that identifies compelling ways of holding key actors in the corporate food regime accountable for creating and profiting from systemic risk in the food system. We draw upon theoretical conceptions of "risk," "rights," and "(ir)responsibi…
Agrobiodiversity, Rural Transformations and Household Experiences of Globalised Change: A Case Study from Southern Bolivia
This paper examines reconfigurations of household economies and agrobiodiversity through the experiences and responses of rural households to local manifestations of globalisation and environmental change in the Central Valley of Tarija, Bolivia, from the 1950s to the present. Research participant narratives from seven study communities document a widely experienced regional shift from rain-fed agriculture and pastured livestock production for ho…
Peasant Resistance to Neoliberalism: La Via Campesina and Food Sovereignty
Since emerging in 1993, La Vía Campesina has become a powerful voice of opposition to the globalization of a modern, industrial and neoliberal model of rural development. By “building unity within diversity” La Vía Campesina pulls together rural movements to work for an alternative model of agriculture and community based on food sovereignty. This article sheds light on La Vía Campesina's contributions to this growing food sovereignty movement
Soberanía alimentaria desde el territorio: Aprovisionamiento, prácticas cotidianas y el papel de las mujeres afrocolombianas en el mantenimiento de sistemas alimentarios (Traducción)
Si bien los movimientos sociales y políticos son generalmente el ámbito de las luchas por la soberanía alimentaria, las prácticas cotidianas de aprovisionamiento son fundamentales para la persistencia de sistemas alimentarios locales y relativamente autónomos. En esta investigación examinamos el aprovisionamiento desde una perspectiva de género en una comunidad colombiana afrodescendiente como un caso de estudio de "soberanía alimentaria desde el…
Tangled Routes: Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail
Tangled Routes: Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail
Peasant Resistance to Neoliberalism: La Via Campesina and Food Sovereignty
Since emerging in 1993, La Vía Campesina has become a powerful voice of opposition to the globalization of a modern, industrial and neoliberal model of rural development. By “building unity within diversity” La Vía Campesina pulls together rural movements to work for an alternative model of agriculture and community based on food sovereignty. This article sheds light on La Vía Campesina's contributions to this growing food sovereignty movement
The power of peasants: Reflections on the meanings of La Vía Campesina
La Vía Campesina (LVC) has emerged as a powerful global voice for peasant farmers. This paper explores the meanings of LVC for its members and the implications of its claims for contemporary understandings of peasant politics. It argues that LVC represents a significant shift in peasant politics, from a focus on national-level struggles to a more globalized and transnational form of activism. LVC's success lies in its ability to articulate a shar…
Voices From Maputo: La Vía Campesina’s Fifth International Conference
We are the men and women of the land. We are those who produce food for the world. We have the right to continue being peasants and family farmers, and to shoulder the responsibility of continuing to feed our peoples. We care for seeds, which are life, and for us the act of producing food is an act of love. Humanity depends on us, and we refuse to disappear. —“Declaration of Maputo: V International Conference of La Vía Campesina, October 19–22, 2…
Farmers, foodies and First Nations: Getting to food sovereignty in Canada
This paper examines how the concept and framework of food sovereignty has been incorporated in food policy agendas across diverse sectors of Canadian society, particularly in the work and discourse of the National Farmers Union, Québec's Union Paysanne, Food Secure Canada and movements for Indigenous food sovereignty. This analysis highlights both the challenges to conceptualizing food sovereignty and the tensions in defining inclusive policies t…
Investor ownership or social investment? Changing farmland ownership in Saskatchewan, Canada
Propiedad Agrícola Para Los Inversionistas O Las Inversiones Sociales? La Transformación De La Propiedad De La Tierra en Saskatchewan, Canadá/Propriedade Agrícola Para Investidores Ou Investimentos So…
Cada vez más se reconoce que el acaparamiento de tierras es un fenómeno global. En Canadá los inversionistas están especialmente interesados en las tierras de Saskatchewan, la provincia donde se encuentra el 40 por ciento de la tierra agrícola del país. Este artículo examina cómo el contexto político, económico y legal neoliberal ha cambiado y configurado los patrones de la propiedad de la tierra entre 2002 y 2014 en Saskatchewan. Nuestra investi…
Agrobiodiversity, Rural Transformations and Household Experiences of Globalised Change: A Case Study from Southern Bolivia
This paper examines reconfigurations of household economies and agrobiodiversity through the experiences and responses of rural households to local manifestations of globalisation and environmental change in the Central Valley of Tarija, Bolivia, from the 1950s to the present. Research participant narratives from seven study communities document a widely experienced regional shift from rain-fed agriculture and pastured livestock production for ho…
Scholar-activists in an expanding European food sovereignty movement
This article analyzes the roles, relations, and positions of scholar-activists in the European food sovereignty movement. In doing so, we document, make visible and question the political dimensions of researchers' participation in the movement. We argue that scholar-activists are part of the movement, but are distinct from the affected constituencies, put in place to ensure adequate representation of key movement actors. This is because scholar-…
Risk and responsibility in the corporate food regime: Research pathways beyond the Covid-19 crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has focused renewed public attention on the risks and harms generated by a globalized, industrialized, and corporatized food system. This crisis reinvigorates the need for a research agenda that identifies compelling ways of holding key actors in the corporate food regime accountable for creating and profiting from systemic risk in the food system. We draw upon theoretical conceptions of "risk," "rights," and "(ir)responsibi…
Solidarities from Below in the Making of Emancipatory Rural Politics: Insights from Food Sovereignty Struggles in the Basque Country
Exclusionary and regressive politics are on the rise globally. How do food sovereignty struggles help counter these forces? We ground our analysis on how EHNE-Bizkaia, a Vía Campesina member organisation in the Basque Country, conceptualises and practices food sovereignty. Inspired by Massey's 'politics of place beyond place' and Featherstone's work on left politics and solidarity, we shed light on the ways that this organisation mobilises food s…
Soberanía alimentaria desde el territorio: Aprovisionamiento, prácticas cotidianas y el papel de las mujeres afrocolombianas en el mantenimiento de sistemas alimentarios (Traducción)
Si bien los movimientos sociales y políticos son generalmente el ámbito de las luchas por la soberanía alimentaria, las prácticas cotidianas de aprovisionamiento son fundamentales para la persistencia de sistemas alimentarios locales y relativamente autónomos. En esta investigación examinamos el aprovisionamiento desde una perspectiva de género en una comunidad colombiana afrodescendiente como un caso de estudio de "soberanía alimentaria desde el…
The good, the bad, and the ugly of COP26: A conversation with two food sovereignty activists
The 26th UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP (Conference of Parties) took place in Glasgow, Scotland in November 2021 amidst intersecting global crises. The rising number and intensity of unprecedented extreme weather events in many countries, increased knowledge about industrial agriculture’s significant emission contributions to the climate crisis, and the vulnerability of the global food system in the wake of COVID-19 shocks…
“It is the Wild West out here”: Prairie farmers’ perspectives on farmland investment and land concentration
This research builds on the emerging body of literature investigating the implications of changing land tenure relations in the Prairie Provinces, where over 70% of Canada’s farmland is located. Through an analysis of survey data collected in 2019 from 400 grain farmers, we address the following research questions: How are farmers experiencing changing patterns of land tenure and control at the local level? What challenges and opportunities do fa…
They call it progress, but we don’t see it as progress’: Farm consolidation and land concentration in Saskatchewan, Canada
Food sovereignty, gender and everyday practice: The role of Afro-Colombian women in sustaining localised food systems
While social and political movements are the scale of action most often identified with food sovereignty-related struggles, everyday provisioning practices are critical for sustaining the distinctiveness and relative autonomy of localised food systems. We examine gendered provisioning in a Colombian, Afro-descendent community as a case study of how food sovereignty is enacted in daily life. Women's everyday food provisioning practices nourish hou…
The feminist dimensions of food sovereignty: Insights from La Via Campesina's politics
Expanding and defending women's rights and eradicating women's oppression have become key to La Via Campesina and its conceptualization and practice of food sovereignty. In this paper, we analyze how gender equality and feminism have gained momentum within the movement, and how the work on gender issues configures a feminist politics and praxis at the global level. As LVC celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, we examine what difference women…
Envisioning prairie agroecology: Farmer visual constructions of place-based ecological agriculture in Canada
Climate change is driving new challenges for farmers around the world, provoking a sense of urgency in the search for on-farm solutions and pathways to sustainable agricultural systems. While agroecology has gained recognition as a promising option for climate resilience, it remains nascent in the Canadian Prairies—a significant agricultural region dominated by large-scale conventional agriculture. Amid the sprawling fields of grains and oilseeds…
Land data for whom? The marketization, privatization and commercialization of land data management in Canada
Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Agriculture (12 works) · Geography (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Food security (8 works) · Political economy (8 works)