Annette Aurélie Desmarais

CURRENT FOOD, economic and environmental crisesare marked by volatile food prices, urban food riots and the continued displacement of the rural poor – a clear indication that the dominant model of agricultural development has not succeeded in eradicating poverty or world hunger. La Vía Campesina, an international agrarian movement that promotes peasant and family-farm sustainable agriculture, argues that these linked crises result directly from an industrial, capital-intensive and corporate-led model of agriculture and that the time for “food sovereignty” has come.