Food Sovereignty and the Anthropology of Food: Ethnographic Approaches to Policy and Practice

This introduction discusses the theoretical and methodological basis of the articles in the special issue: Food Sovereignty and the Anthropology of Food: Ethnographic Approaches to Policy and Practice'. Firstly, it argues a need for an ongoing anthropology of food, grounded in ethnographic studies at various points in supply chains. Secondly, it foregrounds an inherent similarity of approach between the thinking and methods of the Food Sovereignty movement, on the one hand, and anthropology, on the other.