Oil, Land and Food: Food Sovereignty and Agrarian Reform in Venezuela
Broadly, my work focuses on rural social movements and the functions and possibilities of small-scale agriculture for rural livelihoods in the global South.
My dissertation examines the contemporary Venezuelan agrarian reform. I analyze how Venezuela’s position as an oil-producer and as a self-proclaimed socialist state shape and constrain agrarian policy formation and implementation. My dissertation also explores how different conceptions of food sovereignty shape contestation over policy and structures relationships between the state and the peasant and commercial farming sectors.