Food justice: turning private choices into public issues
AbstractThis paper uses distinctions between differing senses of “private,” “public” and “political” in the United States to argue for the value of framing food issues as a collective problem that calls for broadscale demands for justice. We argue that food choices do not simply belong to the realm of private preferences and market transactions. Rathe r, they are a set of decisions that have systemic causes and public consequences. They are shaped and constrained by public policies that underwrite the transportation of food over long distances as well as particular crops and foodstuffs, and by the vendors and a...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - October 23, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Correction: Producer and consumer perspectives on supporting and diversifying local food systems in central Iowa
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Source: Agriculture and Human Values - October 19, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
How do the people that feed Europe feed themselves? Exploring the (in)formal food practices of Almer ía’s migrant and seasonal food workers
AbstractThe EU's Farm to Fork strategy (European Commission European Commission. 2020. Farm to Fork strategy.https://food.ec.europa.eu/horizontal-topics/farm-fork-strategy_en. Accessed 31 August 2023.) highlights the need for a resilient food system capable of providing affordable food to citizens in all circumstances. Behind the provision of affordable food for EU citizens there is the effort of many migrant and seasonal food workers (MSFWs). In Almer ía, Spain, the area with the biggest concentration of greenhouses in the world, MSFWs face vulnerability in the form of physical and institutional invisibility despite perf...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - October 18, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Bringing together urban systems and food systems theory and research is overdue: understanding the relationships between food and nutrition infrastructures along a continuum of contested and hybrid access
AbstractUrban dwellers ’ food and nutritional wellbeing are both dependent on infrastructure and can be indicative of wider wellbeing in urban contexts and societal health. This paper focuses on the multiple relationships that exist between food and infrastructure to provide a thorough theoretical and empirical groundin g to urgent work on urban food security and nutrition in the context of rapid urban and nutrition transitions in the South. We argue that urban systems and food systems thinking have not been well aligned, but that such alignment is not only timely and overdue but also fruitful for both thematic are as of...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - October 13, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Agropastoralism and re-peasantisation: the importance of mobility and social networks in the p áramos of Boyacá, Colombia
AbstractThe p áramos of Boyacá in Colombia are earmarked for delimitation to prevent the expansion of the agricultural frontier and protect endemic flora that contribute to water provision for cities. A varied conservation toolbox will be used, including the creation of protected areas for re-wilding and the ‘ sustainable’ transitioning of livelihoods identified as environmentally destructive. Agriculture and cattle livestock farming has been identified for transitioning. Despite the negative discourse related to livestock holding, this paper argues that small-scale agropastoralism contributes to re-pea santisation a...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - October 6, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Agropastoralism and and re-peasantisation: the importance of mobility and social networks in the p áramos of Boyacá, Colombia
AbstractThe p áramos of Boyacá in Colombia are earmarked for delimitation to prevent the expansion of the agricultural frontier and protect endemic flora that contribute to water provision for cities. A varied conservation toolbox will be used, including the creation of protected areas for re-wilding and the ‘ sustainable’ transitioning of livelihoods identified as environmentally destructive. Agriculture and cattle livestock farming has been identified for transitioning. Despite the negative discourse related to livestock holding, this paper argues that small-scale agropastoralism contributes to re-pea santisation a...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - October 6, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Food justice in community supported agriculture – differentiating charitable and emancipatory social support actions
AbstractCommunity Supported Agriculture (CSA) seeks to address injustices in the food system by supporting small-scale farmers applying agroecological practices through a long-term partnership: a community of members covers the cost of production and receives a share of the harvest throughout the season in return. Despite an orientation towards a more just and inclusive food system, the existing literature points towards a rather homogeneous membership in CSA. A majority of CSAs tends to involve (upper) middle-class consumers with above average education and income levels. Low income is still a major obstacle in joining a ...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - October 2, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Beyond social embeddedness: probing the power relations of alternative food networks in China
AbstractFood justice scholars have criticized alternative food networks (AFNs) for lacking concern about gender, class, race, and ethnicity, thus not addressing structural inequalities. This paper further suggests that the incorporation of social justice into AFNs ’ on-the-ground operations is critical in creating a more sustainable and just agri-food system that challenges the industrial and corporate-controlled food system. By exploring an urban–rural mutual aid cooperative in southwest China, this paper highlights a localized AFN that has successfully cultivated close social ties between ethnic minority small farmer...
Source: Agriculture and Human Values - September 27, 2023 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
