The next stage of the food sovereignty debate

Abstract

Food sovereignty advocates are only beginning to discuss polemical issues, such as the role of long-distance trade, the implementation of relevant legal norms, and whether agroecological production can feed a growing global population. The questions of whether food sovereignty and food security are complementary or oppositional and the extent to which they overlap or have overlapped in the past are similarly debated. The genealogies of both concepts are older than is generally assumed. The key task for food sovereignty advocates is to think through the governance and policy issues that until now have been largely implicit in the way paradigm has been framed.