'One Does Not Sell the Land Upon Which the People Walk': Land Grabbing, Transnational Rural Social Movements, and Global Governance

Globalizations

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 105-122

  McKeon, Nora ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Committee on World Food Security; global democracy; global governance; La Via Campesina; land grabbing; resistance; transnational agrarian movements; United Nations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874185091     PISSN: 14747731     EISSN: 1474774X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2013.760911     Document Type: Article

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