Empowering European farmers: Insights from decolonial theory and indigenous people in Latin America

Lecuye, L., Calla, S., Coolsaet, Brendan, Rodriguez, I. and Young, J. C. (2025) Empowering European farmers: Insights from decolonial theory and indigenous people in Latin America. Journal of Rural Studies, 117. ISSN 0743-0167

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Abstract

The modernization of European agriculture and new societal concerns around global environmental change and food quality have led to forms of marginalization and misrecognition of European farmers. These include limited political agency in decision-making, economic dependency on industrial inputs, devaluation of traditional farming knowledge, restrictive regulatory frameworks, socio-technical lock-ins reinforcing productivist models, and increasing social stigmatization by the public. We draw parallels between the root causes of farmers' marginalization in Europe and the oppression of Indigenous people in the Global South. Their common struggle for recognition allows us to see how a decolonial approach could contribute to addressing the social malaise of farmers in Europe. There is much to learn from Indigenous people's experience in facing the coloniality matrix of power in their claim for more justice that could benefit farmers and the transformation toward a fairer agri-food system in Europe

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Data availability statement: No data was used for the research described in the article. This work was supported by the French Investissements d’Avenir Program, Project ISITE-BFC (Contract ANR-15-IDEX-0003) and built on the collaboration of authors from the POWERBIODIV project, funded by Centre for the Synthesis and Analysis of Biodiversity (CESAB) of the Foundation for Research on Biodiversity (FRB).
Uncontrolled Keywords:	marginalization,way-of-being,knowledge,coloniality,power,decolonialism,geography, planning and development,development,sociology and political science,3*,3* ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3305
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development) University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Area Studies Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Global Environmental Justice University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	15 Apr 2025 16:30
Last Modified:	15 Apr 2025 16:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/99047
DOI:	10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103651

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