Food sovereignty

Patel, Raj

doi:10.1080/03066150903143079

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“…Tribal nations are part of a global food sovereignty movement that maintains the rights of all persons to define their own policies and strategies for sustainable food and agriculture systems. La Via Camaesina, the International Indian Treaty Rights Council, and allies catalyzed the movement in the 1990s, presenting a declaration to the United Nations, which also stated that food sovereignty is a necessary condition to assure food security (49)(50)(51).…”

Section: The Land -Place -As a Social Determinant Of Health And Of Trmentioning

confidence: 99%

Health Promotion and Diabetes Prevention in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities — Traditional Foods Project, 2008–2014

Satterfield¹,

DeBruyn²,

Santos³

et al. 2016

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Section: The Land -Place -As a Social Determinant Of Health And Of Trmentioning

confidence: 99%

Health Promotion and Diabetes Prevention in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities — Traditional Foods Project, 2008–2014

Satterfield¹,

DeBruyn²,

Santos³

et al. 2016

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“…Recently, Wittman [37], and Schneider and McMichael [38] proposed reworking and repairing the historic, capitalist metabolic rift under the auspices of "food sovereignty". Similar ideas of co-benefits between peasant autonomy and agro-ecological sustainability were put forward by several other scholars [39][40][41][42][43][44]. In the wake of the global land-grabbing processes of past years, critical agrarian studies have studied the disproportionate accumulation of "empty" and "cheap" land in the hands of a few globalized, corporate agro-businesses or national governments at the expenses of peasant communities, mostly in rural hinterlands of the Global South [45][46][47].…”

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confidence: 79%

Surplus, Scarcity and Soil Fertility in Pre-Industrial Austrian Agriculture—The Sustainability Costs of Inequality

Gizicki-Neundlinger

Güldner

2017

Sustainability

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This paper takes a Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research (LTSER) perspective to integrate important aspects of social inequality into Socio-Ecological Metabolism (SEM) research. SEM has dealt with biophysical features of pre-industrial agricultural systems from a largely apolitical perspective, neglecting social relations and conditions of peasant production and reproduction. One of the politically and economically most important manorial systems in Early Modern Austria (Grundherrschaft Grafenegg) serves as a case study to reconstruct the unequal distribution of central resources between ruling landlords and subjected peasants. We show that peasant land use systems generated small surpluses only, whereas landlords enjoyed significant economies of scale. Furthermore, we explore what these conditions of landlord surplus and peasant scarcity implied for their respective agro-ecological sustainability. Finally, we argue that within pre-industrial agrarian systems sustainability costs of inequality were severely limiting margins for agricultural intensification and growth of peasant economies.

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“…On the local farm level, changing agricultural land to other uses has negative economic, social and environmental effects (Altieri 2009;Chappell et al 2013;Patel 2009). Continued farming provides incomes and employment and, from a food sovereignty perspective, enables control of the resource base (i.e., the land and soil quality).…”

Section: Agricultural Land Change Food Security and Food Sovereigntymentioning

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“…Using arable land for other uses can affect national and international food security as well as access by individuals to food and the possibility of remaining on their land in this and future generations (e.g., food sovereignty) (FAO 2009;Patel 2009). Based on concerns about food security and food sovereignty, it is appropriate to scrutinise the societal measures for protecting agricultural land from conversion to other uses.…”

Section: Introduction Studying the Competition For Cultivated Land Bymentioning

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Preservation of Agricultural Land as an Issue of Societal Importance

Slätmo

2017

Rural Landscapes: Society, Environment, History

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Based on concerns about food security and food sovereignty, it is appropriate to scrutinise societal measures for protecting agricultural land from conversion to other uses. Changes from agricultural to urban land use are particularly problematic, as they are largely irreversible. By analysing relevant Swedish policy, the present study investigated how the protection of agricultural land is framed as an issue of societal importance. Protection of agricultural land is enshrined in Swedish law, but its use is still continually changing to housing and other constructions. In a structured policy analysis, two questions were examined: (1) what are the societal motives for protecting agricultural land in Sweden, and (2) how do these motives influence the governance of agricultural land? The meaning of 'national importance', 'suitable for cultivation' and 'significant national interests' in Swedish land-use law was also analysed. The results showed that formulations in the law reflect the ambivalent discourses on agricultural land preservation and that the Swedish authorities view other land uses as more important than agriculture.The Swedish governance system is currently built on trust that municipal institutions will make satisfactory decisions concerning land and water use. However, it has been shown that these decisions have not been satisfactory concerning the protection of agricultural land, and it is important to acknowledge that the sum of local decisions can be degrading for these life-supporting resources. The present analysis revealed a looming conflict between the preservation of soils for food production, on one hand, and local participation in decision making, on the other. This raises the question of whether it is more important to defend subsidiarity or to preserve certain resources which are important for food security, such as agricultural land.

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Food sovereignty

Cited by 604 publications

References 9 publications

Health Promotion and Diabetes Prevention in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities — Traditional Foods Project, 2008–2014

Health Promotion and Diabetes Prevention in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities — Traditional Foods Project, 2008–2014

Surplus, Scarcity and Soil Fertility in Pre-Industrial Austrian Agriculture—The Sustainability Costs of Inequality

Preservation of Agricultural Land as an Issue of Societal Importance

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