Abstract

PARDO NUNEZ, Joaliné. Identity, Organization and Strategy in Two Movements Struggling for Food Sovereignty in Mexico. Desacatos [online]. 2017, n.55, pp.152-171. ISSN 2448-5144.

I analyze and compare two movements for food sovereignty in Mexico, taking into account the collective identities that constitute each movement, the organizational forms they use for working and deciding, as well as the strategic decisions they make to orient their action. Both movements contribute to the debate for the construction of a new agrifood project in Mexico, addressing from different views similar problems to tackle the role of the countryside. Collective actors in each case share a common past in the campesino movement, but they constituted two projects, deriving from differentiated evaluations of the action and its results, that turn out as two different movements in their social configuration, their organization and its position towards the State.

Keywords : food sovereignty; arenas; demands; tactics; identities.