The Struggle for Food Sovereignty Alternative Development and the Renewal of Peasant Societies Today

Introduction. -- Family agriculture in the present world: regional perspectives / Rémy Herrera and Kin Chi Lau -- Theoretical framework. -- Food sovereignty and the agrarian question: constructing convergence of struggles within diversity / Samir Amin -- Latin America. -- Reflections on the tendencies of capital in agriculture and challenges for peasant movements in Latin America / João Pedro Stedile -- Africa. -- Rebuilding African peasantries: inalienability of land rights and collective food sovereignty in Southern Africa? / Sam Moyo -- Asia (I). -- Rethinking 'rural China', unthinking modernisation: rural regeneration and post-developmental historical agency / Erebus Wong and Jade Tsui Sit -- Asia (II). -- The political-economic context of the peasant struggles for livelihood security and land in India / Utsa Patnaik -- Oceania. -- The Papua Niugini paradox: land property archaism and modernity of peasant resistance? / Rémy Herrera and Poeura Tetoe -- Europe. -- An overview of the European peasants and their struggles / Gérard Choplin [and eight others] -- Conclusion. -- Facing the domination of financial capital: the convergence of peasant struggles today / Rémy Herrera and Kin Chi Lau.