Conceptualizing food systems for global environmental change research

Ericksen, Polly J.

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2007.09.002

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“…O uso da expressão alternative food networks, doravante referida como AFN, consagrou-se na literatura anglo-americana e europeia ao abordar temas sobre as iniciativas que surgem em diversos países em resposta aos graves problemas que enseja o modelo dominante de produção, distribuição e consumo de alimentos em termos de sustentabilidade ambiental e social, mas também em termos econômicos, particularmente para as pequenas explorações de caráter familiar (Ericksen 2008;Roberts, 2008). Conceitos como relocalização, reespacialização e reconexão descrevem a natureza de alternativas possíveis ao sistema prevalecente (Renting, Marsden & Banks, 2003).…”

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A dinâmica dos canais curtos de comercialização: o caso do Projeto Campagna Amica na Itália

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2017

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Resumo A última década esteve marcada pelo surgimento de uma inovação que a literatura internacional reconheceu como redes agroalimentares alternativas (AFN), regidas por uma lógica que se opõe ao regime operado pela grande distribuição e pelas cadeias globais de suprimento. Uma das mais importantes experiências de AFN europeia é o Projeto Campagna Amica, levada a efeito pela principal confederação sindical agrária italiana (Coldiretti). Desde a sua criação, em 2009, a ênfase tem sido no sentido de reconstruir as relações entre produtores e consumidores através de um processo de aproximação que se desenvolve dentro de mercados de venda direta de produtos agroalimentares. A ênfase desse estudo é mostrar as peculiaridades que ensejam o seu surgimento, mas também as contradições, as ambivalências e os desafios desse processo de construção social da qualidade.

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A dinâmica dos canais curtos de comercialização: o caso do Projeto Campagna Amica na Itália

Anjos

Caldas

2017

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“…However, we prefer to refine these concepts by equating them with food security. This can be measured by using the three variables of 'food availability' (agricultural production), 'food access' (food distribution) and 'food utilization' (food per capita) (Ericksen, 2008;Fang et al, 2013). Long-term climate change has significant direct effects on regional agricultural production (Galloway, 1986;Su et al, 2014;Yin et al, 2014), which in turn affects regional land carrying-capacity.…”

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Macro-Economic Cycles Related to Climate change in Dynastic China

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Investigations of the relationships between climate and human history often place more emphasis on the science of climate change than on understanding human socio-economic processes, and therefore suffer from superficial results and an unbalanced perspective. This is partly due to the lack of high-resolution data concerning long-term socio-economic processes. Here, we base our study of climate and society on a series of 2130-yr-long economic proxy data from China with decadal resolution. The economy was associated significantly with temperature and precipitation at the two predominant bands of 100 and 320 yr. The phase transition of economic states was influenced positively by long-term temperature change combined with triggering effects of short-term changes in precipitation. However, climatic impact on economy should not be recognized as simple causality but some driving-response relation coupled with meditation by human agency at multiple scales. A model of 'adaptive cycles' implies, in relative to the developing phases, climate-economy relationship during the declining phases was more easily moderated by slower processes like rigidity and faster processes like unrest. From a more-macro perspective, climatic driving for the macro-economic cycles was moderated by larger and slower processes like social memory, spatial shifting of key economic areas, and social-technical advance.

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“…During this same time period the notion of sustainability was increasingly applied formally by international organizations to food security (9)(10)(11)(12) . It is not clear why there was such a time lag in this recognition since commentators such as Paul Ehrlich, Lester Brown and concerned scientists had been warning of these issues for far longer (13,14) .…”

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