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Giulio Iocco, Université de Calabre, Martina Lo Cascio, Université de Palerme &#38;Domenico Perrotta, Université de BergameIn SouthernItaly – as well as in other areas of Mediterranean Europe – theover-exploitation of migrant farm labourers appears as a structural factor in agri-foodchains. In recent years, several actors within policy-making and civil societynetworks have proposed diverse and competing responses to this major socialissue. For radical European peasant and food movements, building an alternativefood system inspired by the principles of peasant farming and food sovereignty representsthe only possible way to end the over-exploitation of migrant farm labourers. InSouthern Italy, this approach has since 2011 inspired the birth of severalgrassroots farming initiatives uniting local farmers, precarious workers,activists and migrant labourers. Nevertheless, how to translate thisperspective in practice in specific contexts is a problematic issue that raisesseveral major questions. In what ways can peasant farming and food sovereigntybe built in areas characterised by monocultures and export-orientedagro-industrial production? How can the (often competing) interests of actorswith highly different social positions (in terms of class, national origin,age, life project, etc.) such as farmers and migrant farm workers be mediated?Can migrant farm workers become truly protagonists within the food sovereigntyproject – and as a “sovereign” subject as local actors? This presentation discussesthese questions through an analysis of three political and productive projects:SOS Rosarno, active in Calabria since 2011; Contadinazioni, active in Sicilysince 2015; Funky Tomato, active in Basilicata and Campania since 2015. Albeiteach with its own specific features, these three projects have been ideated asa form of social intervention in areas characterized by the over-exploitationof migrant labour; they are all animated by activists, small-scale farmers, andlocal and migrant workers, who have embraced a process of repeasantisation as away out of labour exploitation. After a description of the projects, we explorethe political and economic difficulties and contradictions they have faced aswell as the steps forward they have made towards the construction of mutualisticforms of organization at both a local and a national level. https://soundcloud.com/lest_umr7317/responding-to-the-over?in=lest_umr7317/sets/migration-agriculture-en