Networks in Action
Local groups and the connections among them help people coordinate this kind of action, rather than working alone. (Ch. 7, introduction)
Collective action
Snipstal identifies this international peasant movement as the organization that introduced food sovereignty as a political project and social vision. (Snipstal, pp. 164–165)
La Vía Campesina
Unequal access to this resource can prevent people from growing food or practicing agroecology. (Ch. 8, Disabling Conditions)
Land
This concept of fairness accounts for people’s different needs and circumstances, including unequal access to resources and power. (Ch. 8, pp. 113–115)
Equity
In White Earth, Minnesota, Anishinaabeg efforts to reclaim this traditional food connect food practices with Indigenous self-determination. (Ch. 8, p. 120)
Wild Rice
Networks can connect isolated “islands of success,” helping farmers share resources, labor, and this intangible resource built through experience. (Ch. 7, introduction)
Knowledge
Snipstal describes the struggle for democratic and autonomous control of the food system by this name. (Snipstal, p. 169)
Food sovereignty
This form of oppression privileges men and can limit women’s access to resources and decision-making. (Ch. 8, pp. 113–115)
Patriarchy
The authors argue that ecological farming practices alone do not automatically produce this kind of fairness in food systems. (Ch. 8, pp. 113–115)
Social justice or equity
In Paraíba, Brazil, rural women organized with support from AS-PTA and came to recognize themselves as this kind of agricultural experimenter. (Ch. 8, p. 118)
Farmer-Innovators
This occurs when powerful actors absorb agroecology while changing or weakening its transformative values and political goals. (Ch. 7, Bringing on Board New Actors)
Co-optation
For La Vía Campesina, this approach to agriculture is a key pillar of food sovereignty and a movement for social transformation—not just a set of ecological practices. (Snipstal, pp. 165–166)
Agroecology
Historical land theft and continuing discriminatory policies are examples of this form of racism embedded in institutions and systems. (Ch. 8, Disabling Conditions)
Structural racism
This concept describes how forms of inequality—such as gender, race, caste, and class—interact to shape people’s experiences. (Ch. 8, pp. 114–116)
Intersectionality
In Telangana, India, Dalit women organized in these collectives to reflect and act against violence while pursuing agroecology and food sovereignty. (Ch. 8, p. 120)
Sanghams
In Araponga, Brazil, farmer unions worked with academic groups and this type of organization to develop and spread agroecology. (Ch. 7, Bringing on Board New Actors)
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
This Spanish term for training or formation describes a movement education process involving dialogue, action, and critical reflection. (Snipstal, p. 167)
Formación
An organization promises to advance equity but provides neither staff nor funding to carry out the work. What is missing from its commitment? (Ch. 8, Disabling Conditions)
Resources for implementation
This process involves developing awareness and agency, individually and collectively, to change unequal relationships and structures. (Ch. 8, pp. 115–116)
Empowerment
This intergenerational learning center associated with the India Food Sovereignty Alliance connects agroecology with anti-caste, anti-patriarchal, and anti-capitalist organizing. (Ch. 8, pp. 121–122)
Kūdali
In South Africa, a multi-stakeholder platform helped advance voluntary guidelines governing tenure of land, fisheries, and this third resource. (Ch. 7, Box 7.1)
Forests
Snipstal argues that research for food sovereignty should treat small farmers, peasant organizations, and activists as these central participants—not as passive objects of study. (Snipstal, p. 171)
Protagonists of the research
To address historical harms such as land theft and slavery, the chapter points toward this kind of action to repair those harms—not just a promise to stop future discrimination. (Ch. 8, Enabling Conditions)
Reparations or reparative action
When a food initiative has diverse participants but land, funding, and decisions remain controlled by a privileged few, the authors would call attention to this deeper kind of inequality. (Ch. 8, pp. 113–115; Disabling Conditions)
Structural Inequality
Recognizing women’s seed work and care is important, but a gender-just approach must also avoid increasing this type of labor without pay or shifting the gendered division of work. (Ch. 8, pp. 115–121)