Food Sovereignty

Abstract

In many ways, regardless of both the formal international structures that govern the Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) confederation and the regional agreements between the four ‘blocs’, it is at the campaign level where we see the organics and dynamics of how FoEI works. At the 2006 Biennial General Meeting (BGM) in Abuja, despite days of discussion and manoeuvring by various regional, national and personalistic networks, in the end, slabs of paper were plastered on the walls of the entrance hall of the hotel, and national representatives were asked to add their country’s name if they were involved — or wanted to be involved — in specific campaigns. It is the campaign’s political sphere that defines action on the ground, as well as provides actual frames and lenses through which we can discover the public face of the organization. In the next two chapters, we concentrate on this level of organizational and movement politics.