Food security, food sovereignty and the special rapporteur: Shaping food policy discourse through realising the right to food

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2014-06-25
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Sage, Colin
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Over the past 6 years, the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, has vigorously defended the case for small-scale and sustainable farming and has helped to establish the political legitimacy of food sovereignty in high-level expert fora. This commentary offers brief reflections on De Schutter’s contribution focusing on the welcome shift of emphasis from food to nutritional security as well as his strong support for agroecology. It argues that he has offered a powerful and coherent alternative to the prevailing paradigm of productivism that has helped reshape food policy discourse.
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Olivier De Schutter , Agroecology , Food security , Food sovereignty , Right to food , Nutritional security
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Sage, C. (2014) 'Food security, food sovereignty and the special rapporteur: Shaping food policy discourse through realising the right to food', Dialogues in Human Geography, 4(2), pp. 195-199. doi: 10.1177/2043820614537156
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© The Author 2014. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.