Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century - Transnational Social Movements and Agrarian Change

Illuminates the transnational agrarian movements that are remaking rural society and the world's food and agriculture systems. Edelman explains how peasant movements are staking their claims from farmers' fields to massive protests around the world, shaping heated debates over peasants' rights and the very category of ""peasant"" within the agrarian organizations and in the United Nations.