GFG - "Greening" global food governance

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The New Governance of Sustainable Food Systems: Shared Insights from Four Rural Communities in Canada and the EU

“…Yet beyond ecological concerns, recent food scholarship continues to note a severe lag in governance strategies' ability to adapt or allow for food system alternatives (Clapp et al, 2015a;Duncan, 2015;Mount, 2012). More specifically, scholars question how power is distributed within food system governance, given the (limited) role of democratic engagement within these systems and the primacy given to an industrial logic for food systems (IPES-Food, 2016a).…”

“…Reflexive governance requires adaptability, flexibility, and creativity. Through its iterative processes, reflexive governance tries to anticipate the direct and indirect longterm effects of its policies -often lacking in traditional decision-making (Duncan, 2015;Voss et al, 2006). As many of the trends in our current global food system lack this sense of long-term clarity and vision, applied to SLFSs, more reflexive governance strategies allow communities to critically think through their processes and their effects.…”

Performing food and nutritional security in Europe: claims, promises and limitations

“…These type of place specific relations, interdependencies and contingencies make it more appropriate to speak of ‘the politics of scale’, where, according to Wald and Hill (2016: 205) ‘ the movement of food across the world and the conditions under which it grows [..] is itself a consequence of scalar contestation’ . Candel’s (2014) undertheorizing of the significance of power relations and differences in normative and ideological positioning in relation to rescaling as well other identified principle FNS governance challenges, appears also in food scholars’ requests for more ‘joined-up’, ‘coherent’, ‘consistent’, ‘holistic’ or ‘integrative’ policy-making (Duncan 2015; Kirwan et al 2017; Duncan and Barling 2012; Clapp and Murphy 2013). In line with such requests, Sassen (2008), analysing global policy processes from a ‘weak’ assemblage perspective (that is, by primarily making use of its dictionary meaning), comes to the conclusion that the world nowadays faces the challenge to facilitate ‘ the formation of larger and more encompassing normative orders ’ (ibid.…”

“…Secondly, an assemblage perspective enables one to acknowledge the relevance of new elements that are brought into the debates about food security, such as health and public entitlement efforts. Thirdly, it advances, in a nuanced, analytically innovative way, the much-needed move to go beyond primarily technical or production foci on FNS (Devereux and Maxwell 2001; Allen 2013; Marsden 2013, 2017; Fouilleux et al 2017) and to reflexively interrogate the role of public policy-making and governance arrangements (Lang and Barling 2012; Duncan 2015) by engaging critically with various strands of both political economy and governance scholarly thought (Stoker 1998).…”

Assessing Sustainable Food and Nutrition Security of the EU Food System—An Integrated Approach

“…The need to change our food systems to be more sustainable (including in health, environmental, social and economic terms) is widely acknowledged in research and policy circles [6][7][8][9]. Governance is considered an important lever in changing these systems to becoming more sustainable and to reaching these goals [10][11][12][13][14], but food systems encompass many different actors, each with their own set of driving forces and goals [15][16][17]. These need to be considered when discussing and negotiating change in the system.…”