Enacting food sovereignty: values and meanings in the act of domestic food production in urban Australia

Larder, Nicolette; Lyons, Kristen; Woolcock, Geoffrey

doi:10.1080/13549839.2012.716409

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“…The focus on agency, (by which we mean the aspiration of individuals to initiate actions that have particular effects-in this case contributing to the climate change and food security) and aspirations to offset fears about food security and climate change also is consistent with ongoing discourse at wider levels: in recent years there has been an increase in mainstream discussion around food security issues in Australia, especially after natural disasters such as floods and cyclones in Queensland which have impacted food availability for the whole country (Larder, Lyons & Woolcock, 2014). One paper estimates that food insecurity affects more than 5% of the population, particularly those living in urban areas (Pires, 2011).…”

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“…One paper estimates that food insecurity affects more than 5% of the population, particularly those living in urban areas (Pires, 2011). Future impacts are being researched: for instance, a study in Sydney found that 52% of the city's vegetable production sites are within areas proposed for future urban development (Larder, Lyons & Woolcock, 2014). In direct terms, community gardening allows people the space and tools to grow their own fresh produce, which is particularly important when urban densification means that private backyard ownership is becoming scarcer (Agustina & Beilin, 2012).…”

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“…• Food production (Guitart, Pickering & Byrne, 2014;Guitart, Byrne & Pickering, 2013;Turner, 2011) • Combatting food insecurity (Evers & Hodgson, 2011;Guitart, Pickering & Byrne, 2012;Turner, Henryks and Pearson, 2011;Agustina & Beilin, 2012;Pires, 2011;Larder, Lyons & Woolcock, 2014;Cameron & Wright, 2014) • Building community and social networks (Guitart, Byrne & Pickering, 2013;Ghose & Pettygrove, 2014;Agustina & Beilin, 2012) • Encouraging sustainable practices (Mintz & McManus, 2014;Larder, Lyons & Woolcock, 2014;Turner, 2011;Stoker & Barnett, 1998). …”

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Community gardens as pathways to community resilience? Reflections on a pilot study in Adelaide, South Australia

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South Australian Geographical Journal

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Cities across the world are facing increasing challenges from the impacts of urbanisation, pollution and climate change. Green spaces and urban vegetation are at ongoing risk of destruction or removal. New residential developments rarely plan for or provide gardens. Nonetheless, the need to maintain urban green spaces is more important than ever. This paper discusses the role of community gardens and whether or not they have a role to play in enhancing community resilience to issues such as climate change. Using a case study of Adelaide, we present the results of a study on community gardens, concluding that they do offer the possibility of building community resilience and social cohesion as well as urban green space. IntroductionAt the turn of last century, Ebenezer Howard's book Tomorrow: a peaceful path to real reform (1898) reprinted as Garden cities: a way forward (1902), presented a vision for the future of urbanisation and offered a suite of suggestions for how gardens and cities could co-exist. Over a century later, how gardens and cities can co-exist remains a pertinent question, particularly as the need to maintain urban green spaces in the context of growing climate change and food security concerns continues to grow (Burton et al. 2011). By 2030, it is estimated that over 60% of the global population will live in cities. Cities will increasingly be subject to the impacts of climate change and food security: for example, currently London imports more than 80% of its food from outside of the United Kingdom. As noted by a key report on cities and climate change:Food distribution, energy provision, water supply, waste removal, information technology, and susceptibility to pandemics are all the Achilles heels of cities. Social unrest from shortages and price spikes of key commodities, mass migration, high unemployment, terrorism, geophysical and climatic disasters also threaten cities. Climate change exacerbates these current threats. (World Bank 2010, 8)

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“…Larder et al (2012) concluded that study participants were more reflexive actors, their critical motivation being "the opportunity it provided for the right to choose, or to enact choices, within the food system" (p.10). The approach taken in this study of Brisbane was to discern the discursive emphasis in reflexive constructs of the local place.…”

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“…This research concluded that the 'act of growing food at home offers space for hope -where small acts can be seen as part of the broader food sovereignty movement seeking to remake our food system' (p.1). Larder et al (2012) recognised backyarders as active agents in shaping a diverse 'urban agri-food futures' in Brisbane. This position stands in opposition to other Australian literature that regards backyarders as "valued by their owners as havens of privacy and freedom" (Head et al, 2007, p.327).…”

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A reflexive discourse of the local place: urban food gardeners in Brisbane, Australia

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In response to the dissatisfaction with the pitfalls of the corporatised global food system over the last two decades, urban dwellers in the Global North have begun to implement alternative food initiatives (AFIs). AFIs tend to be underpinned by discourses of localism with discursive emphasis on the local place where communities can embed food production and distribution with an ethics of care, social justice and ecological responsibility. Urban AFIs consist of biochemical free production initiatives such as: commercial urban agriculture projects (city farms); growing food on sidewalk verges, vacant land and in community and backyard gardens; and distribution initiatives of crop swaps; farmers' markets; and box schemes. This thesis builds on a growing body of research that often discuss the constructions of localism discourses with some arguing that AFIs in the developed world should realise a 'reflexive' localism underpinned by a discourse that acknowledges issues at scales other than the geographic point of local system i.e. discursive emphasis on structural political change at state and global scales.Critics of many current AFIs claim that the lack of capacity of AFIs to challenge, or at least offer a viable alternative to, the corporatised global food system is partly due to practitioners' articulations of an 'unreflexive' discourse of defensive localism. The discourse of defensive localism embeds a non-negotiable geographic boundary enclosing a particular cohort's personal sentiments and values, which are unrepresentative of local issues at that particular place. An 'unreflexive' discourse of defensive localism includes discursive emphasis on personal responsibility, voluntary action, competition and efficiency.This thesis examines this phenomenon and is based on theorisations of subjective reflexivity and constructions of discourses at the local place, focusing on urban backyard and community garden food gardeners in the city of Brisbane, Australia. The question addressed by this thesis is: Are urban food gardeners in Brisbane, Australia merely growing food or reflexively constructing the local place as a response to a dysfunctional food system?The research question is explored using a qualitative, social constructivist epistemology.Using a methodology of discourse analysis, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 19 urban food gardeners who produced some of their household food requirements in community gardens and household backyards. Urban food gardeners viewed the iv hegemonic food system in Queensland as dysfunctional based on perceptions of the ecologically unsound, mechanised cultivation practices and unequal power relations that favour large scale food retailers over farmers -interpretations that conform in many respects to Marx's concept of metabolic rift.Interpretations of gardeners' strategies and motivations were theorised using Farrugia's (2013) 'reflexive subjectivity theory' along with food and agriculture studies that approach the implications of constructions of localism dis...

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Urban Agriculture: Overview of the Field and Early Models of Urban Food Governance

Thornton

2018

Space and Food in the City

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Enacting food sovereignty: values and meanings in the act of domestic food production in urban Australia

Cited by 60 publications

References 49 publications

Community gardens as pathways to community resilience? Reflections on a pilot study in Adelaide, South Australia

Community gardens as pathways to community resilience? Reflections on a pilot study in Adelaide, South Australia

A reflexive discourse of the local place: urban food gardeners in Brisbane, Australia

Urban Agriculture: Overview of the Field and Early Models of Urban Food Governance

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