Feeding a tourism boom: changing food practices and systems of provision in Hoi An, Vietnam

Hansen, Arve; Pitkänen, Outi; Nguyen, Binh

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“…Tourism scholars have reported that tourism has not only outcompeted agriculture for limited labor, land, and water resources but can also drive up food prices (Berno, 2011;Brown, 2013;Pirani & Arafat, 2016). The tourism industry's reliance on imported food can significantly affect the social and economic impacts of tourism, resulting in loss of earnings for local producers while contributing to changes in local diet (Hansen et al, 2023). As part of the neoliberal economic model, commercial tourism seeks lowwage labor and cheap natural resources to sustain profits (Patel & Moore, 2018), including importing food, which reduces the chances to expand local food production and direct farm-to-fork restaurant sales.…”

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Food democracy as food security strategy: The case of a Costa Rican tourism town

Little,

Horn,

Sit

2024

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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Tourism communities such as Monteverde, Costa Rica, the site of this study, have been profoundly impacted by the loss of tourism revenue during COVID-19. Faced with intensified food insecurity caused by the cascading impacts of this pandemic, the community has organized initiatives to stimulate local, sustainable food production to increase food security during the COVID-19 economic recovery. This paper adopts a food democracy framework to analyze restaurants’ regional food purchases, barriers to local purchasing, and tourists’ interest in and ability to identify local food products. Our findings show that nearly all restaurant owners identified benefits of purchasing regional food but reported multiple barriers to buying locally. Tourists reported high interest in eating locally produced food but do not have enough information to identify farm-to-fork options. Local food initiative stakeholder interviews show that emergent strategies demonstrate a move toward food democracy actions by promoting communication and co-learning between restaurants, food producers, and tourists to reinforce principles of food democracy. Based on our findings, we recommend (a) strengthening producer-to-restaurant networks, (b) enhancing communication of local food production benefits and responsibilities to restaurants, and (c) promoting the locally made certification for restaurants to strengthen localized food networks and direct tourists to transformative food strategies underway in Monteverde.

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Food democracy as food security strategy: The case of a Costa Rican tourism town

Little,

Horn,

Sit

2024

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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Eating Out in Contemporary Hanoi: Middle-Class Food Practices, Capitalist Transformations, and the Late-Socialist Good Life

Hansen

2023

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Vietnam's embrace of the Leninist-capitalist hybrid known as the socialist market economy has led to a number of food transformations. These include increasing food imports, heavy investment by powerful domestic and foreign actors in food production and retailing, and the scaling up of domestic agriculture, as well as a range of problematic dietary changes. In an urban food scene that is tremendously rich in the number and diversity of its food spaces, the prevalence of eating out has increased dramatically. Related to affordability, convenience, time, consumer culture, and the search for the good life, eating out has become embedded in everyday life in late-socialist Hanoi. Ongoing food transformations are seeing many of these food practices move from the streets to air-conditioned restaurants. Based on eating ethnography, this article analyzes the boom in eating out in contemporary Hanoi. Studying the interplay among social practices, urban foodscapes, and political economy, and focusing on the middle-class good life and the structural conditions underpinning it, the article analyzes the visible and invisible geographies of food. The latter includes the increasing dominance of capitalist actors in late-socialist foodscapes as cheap food is enabled by intensified animal slaughter and the deep structural inequalities produced by Vietnam's compressed capitalism.

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Feeding a tourism boom: changing food practices and systems of provision in Hoi An, Vietnam

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Food democracy as food security strategy: The case of a Costa Rican tourism town

Food democracy as food security strategy: The case of a Costa Rican tourism town

Eating Out in Contemporary Hanoi: Middle-Class Food Practices, Capitalist Transformations, and the Late-Socialist Good Life

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