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In the contemporary world we face a systemic crisis where multiple dimensions converge, including an economic crisis, a financial crisis, a climate crisis, an energy crisis, a food crisis, and runaway land grabbing. Peter Rosset argues for a paradigm shift toward food sovereignty based on genuine agrarian reform and sustainable peasant agriculture, which he sees as the only way to address the multiple crises.
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Sources for much of the information that is not footnoted in the article can de found in Rosset, 2006a.
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Rosset, P. Food Sovereignty and Alternative Paradigms to Confront Land Grabbing and the Food and Climate Crises. Development 54, 21â30 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2010.102
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