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Towards Food Sovereignty: Dismantling the Capitalist Brahminic-Patriarchal Food Farming Regime

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  • Sagari R. Ramdas

    (Food Sovereignty Alliance and Faculty at Kudali Learning Centre)

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Country-specific national pathways to sustainable food systems, reinforce how the ‘transformation’ of food systems envisaged by the United Nations Food Systems Summit is about endorsing hegemonic agribusiness capitalist markets control of global food systems. Using India as the site of analysis, the article argues that radical transformation is about dismantling and rebuilding a food system where social justice is central to Food Sovereignty. This is foremost a project of liberation from systemic structures of enslavement, and in the case of India these are capitalism, Brahminism and Brahminical patriarchy. It is an historic moment for movements (farmers, anti-caste, adivasi) to re-imagine, revision, and collectively act to create a democratic, egalitarian and just food system, core elements of which are redistributive agrarian land reforms and democratic territorial relocalizing of food farming systems.

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  • Sagari R. Ramdas, 2021. "Towards Food Sovereignty: Dismantling the Capitalist Brahminic-Patriarchal Food Farming Regime," Development, Palgrave Macmillan;Society for International Deveopment, vol. 64(3), pages 276-281, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:develp:v:64:y:2021:i:3:d:10.1057_s41301-021-00307-y
    DOI: 10.1057/s41301-021-00307-y
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