Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This article explores the intersections between food sovereignty and illicit drug crop (IDC) economies, centering the experiences of coca, cannabis, and poppy growers. We argue that these economies open important possibilities for food-sovereign alternatives to emerge. These possibilities arise from the ways IDC economies disrupt the logics of agrarian capitalism – even as they simultaneously deepen its contradictions. Through empirical cases, we demonstrate how IDCs reveal the structural terrain the food sovereignty movement must navigate and transform – particularly across its six foundational pillars. Therefore, we invite a reimagining of IDC cultivation as a generative site of critical reflection, and systemic change.
Source: The Journal of Peasant Studies
Authors: Miryam Nacimento, Sinwa Naw
Institutions: Syracuse University, Sophia University
Language: English
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4414520665