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Drafting a Law, Dissolving a Proposal: Food Sovereignty and the State in Ecuador

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  • Alexandra Martinez Flores
  • Guido Ruivenkamp
  • Joost Jongerden

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Upon being sworn in as the 56th Ecuadorian President on 15 January 2007, Rafael Correa immediately convened, through a referendum, a National Constituent Assembly to draw up a new constitution. One of the concerns of the assembly was to translate into law a food-sovereignty proposal put forward by social movements. In the process of becoming law, the food-sovereignty proposal was much changed. How is it possible that the final version, the law, so far fell short of the food-sovereignty movement’s original proposal? Addressing this question implies a reflection on the role of the state. We argue that (a) instead of strengthening the role of peasants, their participation was reduced to a bureaucratic structure (a ‘council’) that lacked the capacity to define or implement policies, and (b) the issue of the social function of land and land-reform was removed. I therefore conclude that the social movements’ proposal for food sovereignty was stripped of its essentials.

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  • Alexandra Martinez Flores & Guido Ruivenkamp & Joost Jongerden, 2018. "Drafting a Law, Dissolving a Proposal: Food Sovereignty and the State in Ecuador," Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, Centre for Agrarian Research and Education for South, vol. 7(3), pages 351-380, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:agspub:v:7:y:2018:i:3:p:351-380
    DOI: 10.1177/2277976018800590
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