Alternative Land Tenure: A Path Towards Food Sovereignty in Saskatchewan?

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dc.contributor.advisorDesmarais, Annette
dc.contributor.authorBeingessner, Naomi Ellen
dc.contributor.committeememberEaton, Emily
dc.contributor.committeememberMagnan, Andre
dc.contributor.committeememberStewart, Michelle
dc.contributor.externalexaminerMcLaughlin, Darrell
dc.date.accessioned2013-10-31T14:59:50Z
dc.date.available2013-10-31T14:59:50Z
dc.date.issued2013-03
dc.descriptionA Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Justice Studies, University of Regina. viii, 155 l.en_US
dc.description.abstractIn the past few years, a global food crisis has fuelled corporate investment and speculation in land and the attendant dispossession of smallholders and ecological damage, while doing little to alleviate hunger or secure livings for rural dwellers. This phenomenon is most evident in the Global South, but it is happening in Canada too. The dominant industrial agricultural model in Saskatchewan, with roots in the foundation of colonial capitalist agriculture and private ownership of land on the prairies, has resulted in a decades-long “farm crisis” as smaller farmers are forced off the land and agribusinesses consolidate and dominate production. A radically different vision of access to and control over land, as the basis of a new food system, is necessary in striving for socially and ecologically just agriculture. In this thesis, the concept of food sovereignty is used as a theoretical framework because it challenges the hegemony of global industrial agriculture and offers an alternative vision for land tenure and agrarian reform based on principles of social justice. Using data from in-depth qualitative interviews as well as critical discourse analysis of primary documents, this thesis explores alternative land tenure models proposed and practised by farmers involved in a progressive agrarian organization and participants in alternative agricultural land-ownership models in Saskatchewan. Analyzing key themes from the qualitative data using food sovereignty's principles of agrarian reform, this thesis illuminates the ideology behind the dominant global industrial agriculture system, provides historical, global, and Saskatchewan-specific context for issues of access to land, and suggests an approach that unites resistance and expands possibilities for alternatives, based on the social justice principles of food sovereignty.en_US
dc.description.authorstatusStudenten
dc.description.peerreviewyesen
dc.identifier.tcnumberTC-SRU-3831
dc.identifier.thesisurlhttp://ourspace.uregina.ca/bitstream/handle/10294/3831/Beingessner_Naomi_196401062_MA_JUST_Spring2012.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10294/3831
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherFaculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Reginaen_US
dc.subject.lcshLand tenure--Saskatchewan
dc.subject.lcshLand reform--Saskatchewan
dc.subject.lcshLand trusts--Saskatchewan
dc.subject.lcshFood sovereignty--Saskatchewan
dc.subject.lcshAgriculture--Saskatchewan
dc.subject.lcshAgriculture--Economic aspects--Saskatchewan
dc.titleAlternative Land Tenure: A Path Towards Food Sovereignty in Saskatchewan?en_US
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.departmentDepartment of Justice Studiesen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineJustice Studiesen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Reginaen
thesis.degree.levelMaster'sen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (MA)en_US
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