Food policy and climate change: uncovering the missing links

Sodano, Valeria

doi:10.3920/978-90-8686-753-0_37

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“…However, is food-safety governance really complicit in reproducing such health risks? Sodano [73], for example, answers yes, albeit she recognizes this happens by default. She argues that food-safety policy persistently fails to address the profound threats to food-safety and food security coming from climate change.…”

Section: The Dynamic Nature Of Food-safety Governancementioning

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What Food is to be Kept Safe and for Whom? Food-Safety Governance in an Unsafe Food System

McMahon

2013

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This paper argues that discussion of new food-safety governance should be framed by the realization that the dominant food system within which food-safety governance is designed to makes food safe is itself a structural and systemic sources of food un-safety, poor health and a future of food insecurity for many. For some, an appropriate policy response lies in addressing the connections between the food system and diseases such as heart disease, obesity and diabetes. For others it means subsuming food-safety governance within food security governance. For yet others, safe food implies food sovereignty governance and the primacy of a climate change resilient food system. Conventional approaches to food-safety governance are typically framed within a liability model of responsibility that has limited usefulness for addressing institutional, structural or systemic sources of harm such as those critics increasingly attribute to the dominant food system and which are not amenable to remedy by food-safety governance as it is widely understood. One cannot identify critical hazard points where risk is to be managed. These are food-system safety challenges. Because food-safety governance is so deeply political there needs to be greater attention to issues of governance rather than the more usual focus on the technologies of food-safety. Feminist political theorists have much to contribute to re-thinking food-safety governance in the context of diversity and the complexities of power. One could usefully start with the simple questions, "what food is to be kept-safe, for whom and who is the subject of food-safety governance in a post-Westphalian political economic order?" These questions can help unpack both the narrow parochialism and the misleading universalism of food-safety talk. This paper answers that neither the citizens of a particular state (or network of states) nor the falsely universalizing identity of 'the consumer' are adequate answers to these questions about 'who' and 'what'. Answering these questions about who and what with respect to food-safety governance brings issues OPEN ACCESS

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Section: The Dynamic Nature Of Food-safety Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

What Food is to be Kept Safe and for Whom? Food-Safety Governance in an Unsafe Food System

McMahon

2013

Laws

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Food policy and climate change: uncovering the missing links

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What Food is to be Kept Safe and for Whom? Food-Safety Governance in an Unsafe Food System

What Food is to be Kept Safe and for Whom? Food-Safety Governance in an Unsafe Food System

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