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Venezuelan Food Sovereignty Movement

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Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics

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Agroecology; Food security; Food sovereignty; Latin American social movements

Introduction

The Venezuelan food sovereignty movement represents an attempt by the government to establish a national food system that strives to provide equitable food access by offering multitiered, decentralized strategies supported by legislation. The movement emerged during Hugo Chavez’s period as President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. It encompasses aspects of land reform, agroecology, and distribution and is supported by principles of independence from corporate control, equality, social inclusion, shared wealth and resources, endogenous development, and participatory democracy. The food sovereignty movement represents a strategy toward greater social equality. The desire for food sovereignty arose from a history of political and economic instability that created the conditions for Dutch disease, inflation, unequal land distribution, urbanization, and poverty. While the exact...

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  1. Department of Geography, Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Ferne Edwards

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  1. Michigan State University Dept. Philosophy, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

    Paul B. Thompson

  2. University of North Texas Dept. Philosophy & Religion Studies, Denton, Texas, USA

    David M. Kaplan

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Edwards, F. (2017). Venezuelan Food Sovereignty Movement. In: Thompson, P., Kaplan, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6167-4_514-1

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