Transnational agrarian movements confronting globalization / edited by Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Marc Edelman and Cristóbal Kay.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Transnational agrarian movements: origins and politics, campaigns and impact / Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Marc Edelman and Cristóbal Kay -- Peasants make their own history, but not just as they please / Philip McMichael -- Transnational organizing in agrarian Central America / Marc Edelman -- La Vía Campesina and its global campaign for agrarian reform / Saturnino M. Borras Jr. -- Late mobilization : transnational peasant networks and grassroots organizing in Brazil and South Africa / Brenda Baletti, Tamara M. Johnson and Wendy Wolford -- Mobilizing against GM crops in India, South Africa and Brazil / Brenda Baletti, Tamara M. Johnson and Wendy Wolford -- Trade and biotechnology in Latin America: democratization, contestation and the politics of mobilization / Peter Newell -- Claiming the grounds for reform: agrarian and environmental movements in Indonesia / Nancy Lee Peluso, Suraya Afiff and Noer Fauzi Rachman -- Whose rules rule? contested projects to certify local production for distant consumers / Harriet Friedmann and Amber McNair -- Migrant organization and hometown impacts in rural Mexico / Jonathan Fox and Xochitl Bada -- From covert to overt: everyday peasant politics in China and the implications for transnational agrarian movements / Kathy Le Mons Walker -- Where there is no movement: local resistance and the potential for solidarity / Kevin Malseed.

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