GS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Social Innovation, Via Campesina, Invisible Hand
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Neoliberalism is a political economic theory that proposes that human wellbeing can be best achieved by liberating individual entrepreneurial freedoms and skills within an institutional framework characterized by strong private property rights, free markets and fair trade. Neoliberalism appeals to our desire through concepts of human dignity and individual freedom . Via campesina: an alternative vision for agriculture and movement building: we saw a via campesina video in the week on global food systems. Via campesina: origins and objectives: founded by network of national and regional movements in 1993 o three key prongs to their advocacy: Food sovereignty, land and agrarian reforms agroecology and defense of local seeds. Peasant rights: decentralized organization with global conferences every 4 years and a rotating secretariat. Via campesina: national and regional roots: e. g. Movimento dos trabalhadores rurais sem terra (mst) in brazil, working since the. To achieve agrarian reform: social function of property.
