Globalization vs. localization: global food challenges and local solutions

Quaye, Wilhemina; Jongerden, Joost; Essegbey, George Owusu; Ruivenkamp, Guido

doi:10.1111/j.1470-6431.2010.00868.x

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“…The analysis of the CMA case has shown that the characterization of the foodshed through the three designed indicators: (1) intensity, (2) variety of foodstuffs, and (3) freshness can bring to light the local scale of an LFS. What is advocated here, set against other definitions of "localness" stated hitherto by distance between producers and consumers, social constructions, and cultural elements [31,84,85], is that "local" is the critical convergence of the three scales extracted from the foodshed indicators, namely (1) the intensity scale, (2) the variety scale, and (3) the freshness scale. This implies that local is anchored to the food supply support structure and, concretely, to the area that holds a stronger and more consolidated supply linkage with the urban side.…”

Section: Local Scale For the Local Food Systemsmentioning

confidence: 90%

Regenerative Food Systems to Restore Urban-Rural Relationships: Insights from the Concepción Metropolitan Area Foodshed (Chile)

2019

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Cities, in recent years, have seen their functional and metabolic relationships with their agrarian hinterland being either broken off completely or substantially damaged. Within this context, Local Food Systems (LFS) can play a key role in restoring the supply relationships under regenerative assumptions. This paper analyses LFS within the Concepción Metropolitan Area (CMA) as a representative case of Metropolitan Areas in Chile. The aim of the paper is to evaluate whether LFS are regenerating sustainable rural-urban relationships, and to accomplish this goal, foodsheds have been used as a methodological tool to both characterise and represent food traceability. For this purpose, three quantitative foodshed indicators have been applied and three qualitative spatial analytical categories of the Regenerative Food Systems (RFS) defined to decode the behaviour of LFS in the CMA. The proposed method has been successful as an initial exploratory attempt to characterize the regenerative potential of RFS. The results highlight that LFS in the CMA are certainly restoring relationships between the city and its surrounding farmland by establishing new and renewed supply linkages. Further, the application of this method has shed light on some key aspects that show how an LFS is being converted into a potential RFS.

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Section: Local Scale For the Local Food Systemsmentioning

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Regenerative Food Systems to Restore Urban-Rural Relationships: Insights from the Concepción Metropolitan Area Foodshed (Chile)

2019

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“…In contrast to the conventional, increasingly delocalized or globalized, and centralized food production chain of the industrialized countries (IPES-Food, 2016, 2018; Ellen MacArthur Foundation, 2019), NAES as a generic model would result in a "glocalized" (e.g., Quaye et al, 2010) and distributed system of food production. In terms of food cultures, it would result in diversification as opposed to the current trend of homogenization (Ritzer, 2013;Clapp, 2016).…”

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Co-creating Agroecological Symbioses (AES) for Sustainable Food System Networks

Helenius¹,

Hagolani-Albov²,

Koppelmäki³

2020

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Critics of modern food systems argue for the need to shift from a consolidated and concentrated, often monoculture based agro-industrial model toward diversified, post-fossil, and nutrient recycling food systems. The abundance of acute and obvious environmental problems in the agricultural subsystems of the broader food system(s) have resulted in a focus on technological and natural scientific research into "solving" these point of production problems. Yet, there are many facets of food systems that are vital to sustainability which are not addressed even if the environmental problems were solved. In this article, we argue for agroecological symbiosis (AES) as a generic arrangement for re-configuring the primary production of food in agriculture, the processing of food, and development of a food community to work toward system-level sustainability. The guiding principle of this concept was the desire to base farming and food processing on renewable bioenergy, to close nutrient cycles, to break away from the consolidated food chain, to be more transparent and connected with consumers, and to revitalize the rural spaces where farms generally operate. Through a consistent and robust collaboration and co-creative process with transdisciplinary actors, ranging from food producers, and processers to policy actors, we designed a food system model based on networks of AES (NAES). The NAES would form place-based food networks, replacing the consolidated commodity chains. The NAES supports sustainable interactions from a biophysical and socio-cultural perspective. In this paper, we explain the AES concept, give an overview of the process of co-creating the pilot AES, and a proposal for the extension of the AES, as NAES, to create sustainable food systems. Overall, we conclude that the AES model holds potential for creating place-based food systems that further the sustainability agenda.

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“…Direct connections between farmers and consumers in local markets are lost as mega-size corporations with global downstream supermarket distributors gain control of the food market. As global food becomes cheaper, consumers gradually abandon local food and farmers (Wilhelmina et al, 2010;Andree et al, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%