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Definition "food sovereignty = “the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems. It puts the aspirations and needs of those who ...
Contextual Citation Liz Barry: "Thanks to the rise of the Internet, many people around the world are today sending many signals to many other people and/or governments with many tools, most of which were never designed for diverse constituencies to ...
- Rebranding Food and Alternative Narratives of Transition
- B.- Exploring The Multiple Dimensions of Food
- C.- Food-Related Elements Considered as Commons
- D.- Commoning from Below: Current Examples of Commons-Based Food Systems
- E.- Dialogue of Alternative Narratives of Transition
The first part of the book sets the stage. Its five chapters directly challenge the commodity-based nature of the mainstream narrative around food and food systems and invite the readers to imagine alternative scenarios. Here, the authors explore different theoretical approaches tonormative views of food, as a commons or as a public good, that reje...
The second part of the book explores the multiple dimensions of food and how they have been constructed through a continuous interaction and clashes between nature, authority, market, history and communities. Recasting food as a commons enables us to better value and protect the multi-dimensionality of food, and thereby to reverse the mono-dimensio...
Policy makers and academics are moving from the stringent and binary division of the world into public and private goods to a looser but more practical definition of the circumstances that takeinto consideration utility rather than ownership, as highlighted by the example of the so-called Global Commons, which would remain undersupplied in the abse...
Although the almost complete commodification of food has pervaded most national food systems and the global dynamics, there are still numerous examples where the underlying narrative about food is not based in its commodity properties or the value-in-exchange only. Those examplesrange from customary indigenous food systems that are resisting the pr...
The 2008 and 2011 food price peaks were two important events that positioned food at the very top of the political agendas at national and international level. The concerns about the food supply required to feed a growing population with diminishing natural resources under highly unpredictable climatic conditions has been triggering thousands of ev...
= "understanding the power and potential of food systems transformations to address critical issues globally". URL = https://foodsystemstransformations.org ...
Description 1. By Theresa Schumilas: "OFN is a global network in the early stages of setting new agenda for global ‘technology-enabled’ food governance in reaction to failures of both market and state to ensure sustainable and just food systems. Based in civil ...
Bowling Green, Kentucky. Jess Scully: "The Taiwan model may be catching on. Polis was used to bring 2,000 people together at a virtual town hall in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Asked how to improve the local area, residents found consensus around improving traffic flow, adding bike lanes, beautification of the waterfront, even access to broadband ...
Context within NORA Relationships to other needs Clean air to breathe Polluted air can contaminate the food as well (e.g., pesticides). Clean water to drink, for hygiene, for cooking and other household purposes If one's drinking water is polluted, so is one's food. A ...
