Includes bibliographical references and index.

Transnational agrarian movements: origins and politics, campaigns an d impact / Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Marc Edelman and Cristobal Kay -- P easants make their own history, but not just as they please / Philip Mc Michael -- Transnational organizing in agrarian Central America / Marc Edelman -- La Via Campesina and its global campaign for ag rarian refor m / Saturnino M. Borras Jr. -- Late mobilization : transnational peasan t networks and grassroots organizing in Brazil and South Africa / Brend a Baletti, Tamara M. Johnson and Wendy Wolford -- Mobilizing against GM crops in India, South Africa and Brazil / Brenda Baletti, Tamara M. Jo hnson and Wendy Wolford -- Trade and biotechnology in Latin America: de mocratization, contestation and the politics of mobilization / Peter Ne well -- Claiming the grounds for reform: agrarian and environmental mov ements in Indonesia / Nancy Lee Peluso, Suraya Afiff and Noer Fauzi Rac hman -- Whose rules rule? contested projects to certify local productio n for distant consumers / Harriet Friedmann and Amber McNair -- Migrant organization and hometown impacts in rural Mexico / Jonathan Fox and X ochitl Bada -- From covert to overt: everyday peasant politics in China and the implications for transnational agrarian movements / Kathy Le M ons Walker -- Where there is no movement: local resistance and the pote ntial for solidarity / Kevin Malseed.