More food sovereignty research

Annette Aurélie Desmarais’ work has contributed to reactivating research and public debate on peasant and farmer activism and their role in determining agrarian change and food system transformation. In addition to tackling the land question, she has engaged in participatory, multi-sited empirical research on the who, why, what and how of food sovereignty and food insecurity in various places. She accomplishes this by working collaboratively with some amazing international and local research teams. Below are the publicly available publications resulting from international, Canadian and more local research.

Discover more of Annette Desmarais’ food sovereignty work below.

Global

Calvário, Rita and Annette Aurélie Desmarais. 2023. The feminist dimensions of food sovereignty: Insights from La Via Campesina’s politics. Journal of Peasant Studies. DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2153042 Open access at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03066150.2022.2153042

MacInnes, Jessie, Roz Corbett and Annette Aurélie Desmarais. 2022. The good, the bad and ugly of COP 26: A conversation with two food sovereignty activists. Canadian Food studies, 9 (3), 4-16, https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/586/509

MacInnis, Jessie, Nettie Wiebe, Annette Aurélie Desmarais & Maywa Montenegro de Wit. 2022. “This Feminism is Transformative, Rebellious and Autonomous”: inside struggles to shape the CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, DOI: 10.1080/21683565.2022.2091717. Eprint available at https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XPAJHXS6CWIJP3VXDJTY/full?target=10.1080/21683565.2022.2091717

Bowness, Evan, Dana James, Annette Aurélie Desmarais, Angela McIntyre, Tabitha Robin, Colin Dring & Hannah Wittman. 2021. “Risk and responsibility in the corporate food regime: research pathways beyond the COVID-19 crisis.” Studies in Political Economy, 101:3, 245-263. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07078552.2020.1849986

James, Dana, Evan Bowness, Tabitha Robin, Angela McIntyre, Colin Dring, Annette Aurélie Desmarais, and Hannah Wittman. 2021. “Dismantling and Rebuilding the Food System after COVID-19: Ten Principles for Redistribution and Regeneration.” Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development. https://foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/923

Clapp, Jennifer, Annette Aurélie Desmarais, and Matias E. Margulis. 2015. “Mapping the State of Play on the Global Food Landscape.” Introduction to Special Issue, Canadian Food Studies, 2(2): 1-6. Available at https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/103/83.

Desmarais, Annette Aurélie. 2015. “The Gift of Food Sovereignty.” Canadian Food Studies, 2(2): 154-163. Available at https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/115

Desmarais, Annette Aurélie. 2013. “Harvest of Wisdom: Dialogue Among Vía Campesina Representatives.” La Vía Campesina’s Open Book: Celebrating 20 Years of Struggle and Hope. Available at https://viacampesina.org/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2013/05/EN-03.pdf

Desmarais, Annette Aurélie, and Paul Nicholson. 2013. “La Vía Campesina: An Historical and Political Analysis.” in La Vía Campesina’s Open Book: Celebrating 20 Years of Struggle and Hope. Available at https://viacampesina.org/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2013/05/EN-10.pdf

Latin America

Turner, Katherine L., C. Julián Idrobo, Annette Aurélie Desmarais, and Ana Marie Peredo. 2020. “Food Sovereignty, Gender and Everyday Practice: The Role of Afro-Colombian Women in Sustaining Localized Food Systems.” Journal of Peasant Studies. Published on-line on August 12. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2020.1786812.

Published in Spanish: Turner, K.L., Idrobo, C.J., Desmarais, A.A., y Peredo, A.M. (2021). Soberanía alimentaria desde el territorio: aprovisionamiento, prácticascotidianas y el papel de las mujeres afrocolombianas en el mantenimiento de sistemas alimentarios. Jangwa Pana, 20 http://revistas.unimagdalena.edu.co/index.php/jangwapana/article/view/3996/2878

Turner, Katherine, Iain Davidson-Hunt, and Annette Desmarais. 2017. “Agrobiodiversity, Rural Transformations and Household Experiences of Globalised Change: A Case Study from Southern Bolivia.” Rural Landscapes: Society, Environment, History, 4(1): 1-23. doi: http://doi.org/10.16993/rl.36.

Turner, Katherine L., Iain J. Davidson-Hunt, Annette Aurélie Desmarais, and Ian Hudson. 2016. “Creole Hens and Ranga-Ranga: Campesino Foodways and Biocultural Resource-Based Development in the Central Valley of Tarija, Bolivia.” Agriculture, Published on-line on August 26. Available at https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/6/3/41

Europe

Duncan, Jessica, Priscilla Claeys, Marta G. Rivera-Ferre, Elisa Oteros-Rozas, Barbara Van Dyck, and Annette Aurélie Desmarais. 2019. “Scholar-Activists in an Expanding European Food Sovereignty Movement.” Journal of Peasant Studies. 48 (4), pp. 875-900. Available at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03066150.2019.1675646.

Calvário, Rita Oliveira, Annette Aurélie Desmarais, and Joséba Azkarraga. 2019. “Solidarities from Below in the Making of Emancipatory Rural Politics: Insights from Food Sovereignty Struggles in the Basque Country.” Sociologia Ruralis. 60 (4), pp. 857-879 Available at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/soru.12264

Calvário, Rita, Annette Aurélie Desmarais, and Joseba Azkarraga-Etxagibel. 2019. “Countering Right-Wing Populism through Food Sovereignty and ‘Solidarity from Below’: An Example from the Basque Country.” Undisciplined Environments. Blog. Available at https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2019/10/17/countering-right-wing-populism-through-food-sovereignty-and-solidarity-from-below-an-example-from-the-basque-country/.

Calvário, Rita, Annette Aurélie Desmarais, and Joseba Azkarraga-Etxagibel. 2020. Translation into Greek of “Countering Right-Wing Populism through Food Sovereignty and ‘Solidarity from Below’: An Example from the Basque Country.” Undisciplined Environments. 2019. Available at https://alterthess.gr/antimetopizontas-ton-dexio-laikismo-meso-tis-diatrofikis-aytarkeias-kai-tis-allileggyis-apo-ta-kato-ena-paradeigma-apo-ti-chora-ton-vaskon/

Canada

Qualman, Darrin, A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Annette Aurélie Desmarais, and Sharada Srinivasan. 2018. “Forever Young? The Crisis of Generational Renewal on Canada’s Farms.” Canadian Food Studies, 5(3):100-127. Available at https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/284.

Desmarais, Annette Aurélie. 2018. “An Interview with Indigenous Food Sovereignty Matriarch Dawn Morrison.” Union Farmer Quarterly, Summer, 24(2):20-23. Available at https://www.nfu.ca/publications/union-farmer-quarterly-summer-2018/.

Roppel, Carla, and Annette Aurélie Desmarais. 2017. “Canadian Women Farmers Developing Farm Policy: A Gender-Inclusive Vision for Agricultural Policy.” In Everyday Experts: How People’s Knowledge Can Transform the Food System, edited by Colin Ray Anderson, Christabel Buchanan, Marina Chang, Javier Sanchez Rodriguez, and Tom Wakeford. Coventry, UK: Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience. Available at https://www.coventry.ac.uk/globalassets/media/global/08-new-research-section/signposts/everyday-experts-ch12.pdf (12 pp.).

Desmarais, Annette Aurélie, and Hannah Wittman. 2014. “Farmers, Foodies and First Nations: Getting to Food Sovereignty in Canada.” Journal of Peasant Studies, 41(6):1153-1173.

Wittman, Hannah, and Annette Aurélie Desmarais. 2012. “Food Sovereignty in Canada.” The Monitor, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, September. Available at http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/monitor/food-sovereignty-canada.

Roppel, Carla, Annette Aurélie Desmarais, and Diane Martz. 2006. “Farm Women and Canadian Agricultural Policy.” Ottawa, ON: Policy Research, Status of Women Canada. Available at https://www.nfu.ca/publications/farm-women-and-canadian-agricultural-policy/

Summary report: Roppel, Carla, Annette Aurélie Desmarais, and Diane Martz. 2006. “Farm Women and Canadian Agricultural Policy – an Educational Tool.” National Farmers Union, August. Available at http://www.nfu.ca/women/EDUCATIONAL_TOOL.pdf.

Manitoba

Bihun, Hannah, and Annette Aurélie Desmarais. 2020. Becoming a Young Farmer in Manitoba: A Summary Report. Presented to Manitoba Agriculture and the Keystone Agricultural Producers. Available at https://www.kap.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Final_BYF-Report_April-2020.pdf

Bohunichy, Michaela, Annette Aurélie Desmarais, and Meghan Entz. 2019. “Self-Operated Vs. Corporate Contract: A Study of Food Procurement at Two Universities in Manitoba.” Canadian Food Studies, 6(1):43-74. Available at https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/280/309.

Wendimu, Mengistu Assefa, Annette Aurélie Desmarais, and Tabitha Robin Martens. 2018. “Access and Affordability of ‘Healthy’ Foods in Northern Manitoba? The Need for Indigenous Food Sovereignty.” Canadian Food Studies, 5(2):44-72. Available at https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/ article/view/302

Wendimu, Mengistu Assefa, and Annette Aurélie Desmarais. 2018. “Why is Milk so Expensive in First Nations Communities? Access to and Affordability of Milk in Northern Manitoba.” Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba. Available at at https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/why-milk-so-expensive-first-nations-communities

Entz, Meghan, Joyce Slater, and Annette Aurélie Desmarais. 2017 “Student Food Insecurity at the University of Manitoba.” Canadian Food Studies, 4(1):139-159. Available at https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/ cfs/article/view/204.

Entz, Meghan, Joyce Slater, and Annette Aurélie Desmarais. 2017. “Education Vs. Groceries: University Student Food Insecurity in Manitoba.” Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba: Social and Economic Trends. March 30. Available at https://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/Manitoba%20Office/2017/03/Education_vs_groceries.pdf.