Drawing on participatory action research with La Via Campesina’s US
member groups, this paper traces the coloniality of US agricultural
policy. The framework of
coloniality conjures history, contextualizing US Department of
Agriculture (USDA) racism within long legacies of subjugation, while
paying homage to historical resistance. It raises the stakes regarding
the neo-imperialism of agribusiness monopolies, while highlighting
divide-and-conquer strategies and the colonialist mentalities that
linger on despite reform. The
discursive impact of coloniality builds upon existing, grassroots
articulations of the need to decolonize agricultural policy. Calling out
the coloniality of US agricultural policy echoes global revalorizations
of peasant agriculture, while overcoming the constraints of the term
‘peasant’ in US-English-speaking contexts.
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