The Struggle for Food Sovereignty in South Korea
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9200963 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Byeong-Seon Yoon, Byeongseon Yoon, Won-Kyu Song, Hae-jin Lee (0000-0002-0380-7024) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 56 |
| Publication date | 2013-05-05 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Monthly Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-0520 • E-ISSN: 0027-0520 |
| Publisher | Monthly Review Foundation (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.14452/mr-065-01-2013-05_5 |
| OpenAlex | W2060531512 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
On October 10, 2012, the Korean Women's Peasant Association (KWPA) was awarded the Food Sovereignty Prize at a ceremony held in New York City. This prize is an alternative to the World Food Prize founded by the late Norman Borlaug, "the father of the Green Revolution." While the World Food Prize emphasizes increased production through technology, the Food Sovereignty Prize champions solutions coming from those most impacted by the injustices of the global food system.... In order to understand how the KWPA won this prestigious award—even though South Korea's agriculture contributes only around 2 percent of the nation's total GDP, while the nation's market economy is ranked fourteenth among 188 countries—the changes in South Korea's agriculture under the modern agri-food system need to be examined.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Ceremony · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Food processing · Food security · Food sovereignty · Food systems · Green Revolution · Order (exchange) · Peasant · Political science · Politics · Sovereignty · Agricultural Systems and Practices · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2023 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |