Food as commons

Food self-provisioning: a review of health and climate implications

“…Overall, FSP is defined and used in different ways in the literature depending on the scale of the ‘self’. Typically, with respect to individuals, households, and communities, FSP is defined as food production, consumption, and/or exchange/gifting outside of the market (Balázs, 2018; Colby & Kennedy, 2017; De Hoop & Jehlička, 2017; Smith & Jehlička, 2013; Sovová et al, 2021). Most commonly, FSP is perceived as growing food in allotments or community gardens or on the premises of an apartment building, house, or summer cottage, and consuming and sharing the yield without selling it (Smith et al, 2015).…”

“…Most commonly, FSP is perceived as growing food in allotments or community gardens or on the premises of an apartment building, house, or summer cottage, and consuming and sharing the yield without selling it (Smith et al, 2015). For example, Balázs (2018, p. 296) considers FSP through a ‘food as commons’ framework and based on previous literature defines community-based FSP as ‘the production and distribution of food by means other than buying and selling: in other words, a non-market distribution of local foods. It is accomplished primarily by gifting and bartering’.…”

“…At the community scale, FSP can be identified to improve community wellbeing through practices that involve sharing of food, knowledge, and company of others. Practices of sharing and gifting food with family, friends, neighbours, and co-workers is widely discussed and noted in the literature (Ančić et al, 2019; Balázs, 2018; Córdoba et al, 2021; Daněk & Jehlička, 2020; Feola et al, 2020; Hendrickson et al, 2020; Jehlička & Smith, 2011; Jehlička et al, 2013, 2019; Pinto-Correia et al, 2021; Piras, 2020; Pungas, 2019; Smith et al, 2015; Sovová, 2015; Sovová et al, 2021; Vávra et al, 2021; WinklerPrins & de Souza, 2005). The element of sharing not only food but knowledge, a traditional way of life, and company of others seems to be important (Harper & Afonso, 2016; Mincytė et al, 2020; Pungas, 2020; Sovová & Krylová, 2019; Sovová & Veen, 2020; WinklerPrins & de Souza, 2005).…”

Varieties of Deliberation: Framing Plurality in Political CSR

“…Relatedly, the deliberative aspect of political CSR can benefit from the multiparty dispute resolution and negotiation literature (e.g., De Schutter, Mattei, Pol, & Ferrando, 2018; Menkel-Meadow, 2012; Susskind, 2008). This scholarship can address important pragmatic questions about how enforcement or compliance is accomplished and how trust operates in multistakeholder situations.…”

How food in the commons can help to address inequity in US food and land access

“…Commons are publicly owned goods, accessible to all through a system of rules devised by the people using the commons. A commons is a civic “third way” between private and state ownership and control 11 and allows management for the public good and local control by the users. In the US, air and water are often considered commons, and we might be starting to understand that biodiversity and soil should be managed as commons.…”