Key Works

Food crisis and food sovereignty

Readings for the sessions on the food crisis and food sovereignty: Esther Vivas, Ian Angus, La Via Campesina and Marx on agriculture and surplus population.

8 works. Fourth International documents and the classics first, then by the number of teaching materials that cite them.

1. Capital, Volume One, Chapter 15, Section 10: Large-Scale Industry and AgricultureKarl Marx · 1867 · external link · cited in 4 teaching materials
2. The Progressive Production of a Relative Surplus Population or Industrial Reserve Army, Capital: Volume One, Chapter 25, Section 3, pp. 781-794Karl Marx · 1867 · external link · cited in 3 teaching materials
3. Food Crisis: Causes, Consequences and AlternativesEsther Vivas · 2009 · International Viewpoint · external link · cited in 5 teaching materialsAlso: esthervivas.wordpress.com
4. #Nov25: Peasants in the Struggle for our Rights, against the Virus of Capital and Patriarchy!La Via Campesina · 2020 · La Via Campesina · external link · cited in 3 teaching materials
5. Food crisis: world hunger, agribusiness and the food sovereignty alternativeIan Angus · 2008 · Climate and Capitalism · external link · cited in 3 teaching materialsAlso: climateandcapitalism.com
6. Food sovereignty is the flame that will show us the way, insists La Via Campesina as it marks 16 October in a pandemic yearLa Via Campesina · 2020 · La Via Campesina · external link · cited in 3 teaching materials
7. Sustainable Peasant and Family Farm Agriculture can Feed the WorldVia Campesina · 2010 · external link · cited in 3 teaching materials
8. Who we are? What are we fighting for? What are we fighting against?La Via Campesina · La Via Campesina · archived copy · cited in 3 teaching materials