Castro-Vargas, Soledad;
Hernandez Rodriguez, Carol;
Navas, Grettel;
Castanon Ballivian, Enrique;
Xu, Yunan;
Marini, Daniela Ayelen;
(2025)
Pesticides and food sovereignty: (dis)connections and challenges for agrarian movements.
The Journal of Peasant Studies
10.1080/03066150.2025.2549340.
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Abstract
Agriculture has become increasingly dependent on pesticide use, with significant growth over the past three decades. While food sovereignty and agroecology have strengthened during the same period, the pesticide complex has expanded and deepened its reach. Drawing on research in China, Mexico, Costa Rica, Argentina, and Bolivia, we analyze the structural drivers behind pesticide adoption, the challenges faced by farmers, the tensions between pesticide use and socioecological health impacts in rural communities, and the strategies mobilized by anti-pesticide movements. This paper intends to open a political research agenda for rethinking food sovereignty in the context of chemically dependent agriculture.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Pesticides and food sovereignty: (dis)connections and challenges for agrarian movements |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/03066150.2025.2549340 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2025.2549340 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Social Sciences, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Anthropology, Development Studies, Pesticide complex, agriculture, social movements, China, Latin America, RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION, REVOLUTION, FARMERS, CHINA, TREADMILL, COMPLEX, JUSTICE, WORKERS, HEALTH, HUKOU |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of the Americas |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10217991 |
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