This book is the first study of the new transnational agrarian movements (TAMs) from their perspective. Merging scholarship with activism through a methodology of observant participation, it explores how TAMs strategize within the global governance of agriculture to confront neoliberal aims of expanding capital penetration in the countryside.
Mauro Conti is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Calabria, Italy. He works as a consultant on family farming for the FAO. He formerly served as the global coordinator of the Secretariat of the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty and as president and policy officer at Centro Internazionale Crocevia.