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The Geopolitics of Food Security and Food Sovereignty in Latin America

Harmonizing Competing Visions or Reinforcing Extractive Agriculture

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ID3948288
AuthorsRoger Merino (0000-0002-0648-6203, Universidad del Pacífico, Lima, Perú, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume27
Issue3
Pages898-920
Publication date2022-05-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeopolitics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14650045.2020.1835864
OpenAlexW3108317445
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited57

In Latin America — the region with the biggest tropical forest on the planet and the largest potential for agricultural expansion — food security and food sovereignty are two competing approaches to food policies. Drawing on decolonial approaches to political geography, this paper provides a comparative analysis of food policies in the four countries (Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, and Bolivia) that make up the Andean Community of Nations (CAN), a supranational organisation that has enacted a regional food policy aimed at reconciling neoliberal and social orientations of its country-members. The paper contributes to the literature that highlights the multi-scalar nature of food security and food sovereignty by exploring the contentious building of food institutions from the grassroots to national and supranational scales in the Andean region. It also contributes to the critiques that highlight the limits to decolonization by explaining how – apart from hydrocarbon and mining dependence – food policies also express the permanence of coloniality in plurinational states. The paper argues that Andean supranational policies are apparent efforts to balance and harmonize the different interests at stake when actually reinforce a neocolonial sovereign state power that deepens the scalar tensions by intensifying the extractive transnational agriculture over pro-indigenous agriculture

Agriculture · Development economics · Economics · Economy · Food security · Food sovereignty · Food systems · Geography · Geopolitics · Grassroots · Indigenous · Latin Americans · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · Vision · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Law · Organic Food and Agriculture · Ecology

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Citations per year5,5
Citation span2024 - 2026 (3)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
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