Agriculture and Sustainability Governance in the Global South

Abstract

This panel examines the politics of agricultural sustainability governance in the Global South. It explores how competing visions of productivity, environmental sustainability, and social justice shape agricultural policy and food system transformations. The contributions analyse contestation between top-down, technology-driven approaches and bottom-up, agroecological and smallholder-centred alternatives, highlighting the role of discourse, power relations, and plural governance arrangements. Across diverse regional contexts, the panel shows how sustainability transformations are politically negotiated, uneven, and sometimes regressive rather than linear or progressive.

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