476 research outputs found
Introduction: In Search of Better Options: Food Sovereignty, the Right to Food and Legal Tools for Transforming Food Systems
No full textThe stakes for building better food systems are high. Our current path is leaving many behind, destroying the environment and entrenching inequality and systemic poverty. This introduction sets the scene to Rethinking Food Systems and provides an account of the legal and rights-based approaches taken throughout the book. It also begins a discussion on the benefits and limitations to using the law to address hunger and malnutrition. Further, by examining the arguments of the contributing authors and the crosscutting themes in their chapters, this introduction begins to explore the following questions: What are just, sustainable, and equitable food systems? What are the values on which they are built? What tools are available to push for change? What are the advantages and disadvantages of rights-based approaches? Should actors focus on the sub-national, national, regional or global level in their advocacy efforts? And should these actors push for new laws, focus instead on policies and programmes, or put efforts into developing alternative practices? How should they approach the challenge of large-scale land acquisitions in the Global South, intellectual property regimes imposed from above or the growing fragmentation in the international management of food systems? What is and what should be the role of the state in addressing issues of hunger and food insecurity and what role do and should international institutions, consumers and producers play
Land is a Human Right
Full text linkThis chapter explores the human right to land from both a historical and a normative perspective. It analyzes the key developments that have led to the recognition of the human right to land in international human rights law. The first part of the chapter explores land as a key component of other human rights, such as the rights to food, housing, property, and other economic, social, and cultural rights. The second part then describes how various international legal instruments came to recognize land as a self-standing human right. It discusses the various dimensions of the right to land and what this right means for different groups, with a focus on Indigenous Peoples, peasants, and other people working in rural areas. Finally, the third part explores current challenges for the implementation of the right to land, with an emphasis on forced evictions and displacements, the gender and intersectional dimensions, and the impacts of transnational corporations. The overall objective is to highlight the benefits of adopting a human rights approach to land issues, seeing land, not as a mere commodity, but as central to the realization of human rights
The Author\u27s Series
No full textModerator: Daphine Priscilla Brown-Jack
Guest Panelist: Carlos Wallace
Guest Panelist: Rachel B-Fo
Priscilla Yeung : Wildflowers and Weeds
No full textFrohman's descriptive analysis of Yeung's exhibition calls attention to how questions inscribed within the works are informed by the artist's everyday life experience - her physical stature, gender and race. Topics such as collection, memorabilia, temporality and the fantastic are considered in relation to the "value" and "performance" of the art object. Includes artist's statement. Brief biographical notes on artist and author. 1 bibl. ref
Indigenous Futurism
No full textJesse and Priscilla talk with scholar and author, Grace Dillon about Indigenous Futurism, a term she coined to describe indigenous art, literature, and media expressed as science fiction with an emphasis on science
Vía Campesina’s Struggle for the Right to Food Sovereignty: From Above or from Below?
No full textThe transnational agrarian movement La Vía Campesina has successfully mobilized a human rights discourse in its struggle against capitalism and neoliberalism. As La Vía Campesina celebrates its 20th anniversary, this chapter proposes a critical overview of the right of peoples to food sovereignty. Looking at food sovereignty both as La Vía Campesina’s most prominent collective action frame and as a new collective human right, this chapter explores some of the challenges social movements are confronted with when using human rights. It discusses efforts by La Vía Campesina to achieve the international recognition of food sovereignty as a new human right and explores past and current challenges involved in the institutionalization of food sovereignty
"...e tu sei apparsa fra le brume lontane, Africa del mio destino": note su Milo Corso Malverna, artista coloniale (1899-1970)
No full textThis essay aims to provide a first new contribution on the figure of Milo Corso Malverna, a versatile author who moved to Africa during the Ventennio. The artist, his activities and his works have only been studied superficially and partially, and for the most part in relation to a group of paintings and sculptures now in the Museum of Civilisations in Rome. This work therefore wishes to broaden the knowledge about this artist, who, through his heterogeneous activity, was fully inserted in the colonialist vein, assuming the roles of painter, illustrator, sculptor, exhibition organiser, writer, art critic and poet. Arrived in Somalia in 1927 and then moved to Libya in 1931, Corso Malverna made a name for himself in the Tripolin context, where among other things he held the position of President of the Fascist Colonial Syndicate of Fine Arts for several years. Back in Italy after the Second World War and settled in Rome, the artist continued his activity in the wake of the African experience, both by collaborating on the
preparation of exhibitions related to AFIS (the Italian Trust Administration of Somalia), and by continuing to present, in various solo and group exhibitions, works related to the period spent overseas.
Il presente saggio mira a fornire un primo nuovo contributo sulla figura di Milo Corso Malverna, versatile autore giunto in Africa durante il Ventennio. L’artista, le sue attività e le sue opere sono stati studiati solo superficialmente e in minima parte, per lo più in relazione a un gruppo di dipinti e sculture oggi conservati presso il Museo delle Civiltà di Roma. Questo lavoro desidera quindi ampliare le notizie in merito al personaggio, il quale, attraverso la sua eterogenea attività, si inserì a pieno nel filone colonialista, vestendo i panni di pittore, disegnatore, scultore, organizzatore di mostre, scrittore, critico d’arte e poeta. Giunto in Somalia nel 1927 e trasferitosi poi in Libia nel 1931, Corso Malverna si affermò nel contesto tripolino, ove fra le altre cose ricoprì per diversi anni la carica di Presidente del Sindacato Coloniale Fascista delle Belle Arti. Rientrato in Italia nel secondo dopoguerra e stabilitosi a Roma, l’artista proseguì l’attività nel solco dell’esperienza africana, sia collaborando all'allestimento di rassegne connesse all’AFIS (Amministrazione Fiduciaria Italiana della Somalia), sia continuando a proporre, in diverse mostre personali e collettive, lavori legati al periodo trascorso oltremare
Writing 101, Publishing, Marketing
No full textDaphine Priscilla Jack: Author, Criminal Justice, Reform Advocate
Carlos Wallace: Best-Selling Author, Filmmaker, Co-creator of VR Eval
Liz Fablus-Wallace: Best-Selling Author, Publisher Publicist
Avery Washington: Best-Selling Author Poet Family, Advocate, Publisher, Podcaster, Speaker
Lynn C. Page: Author and Illustrato
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