Reframing Policy Regimes and the Future Resilience of Global Agriculture

Almås, Reidar; Campbell, Hugh

doi:10.1108/s1057-1922(2012)0000018015

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“…Trends and tendencies show, that the consumer interest and demand for local food have increased in the last decade in Sweden, as well as in other parts of the world. Yet, in many Western countries, resiliency and self-sufficiency in food are topics that have been more common on the political agenda in recent years [12][13][14]. An eventual disruption to the global food system could greatly impact any country, especially net food importing countries like Sweden.…”

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“…Asustainablefood system is described by Fresco (2009) [16] as being resource and energy efficient, productive, reducing vulnerability, responsive to changes, and limited in Green House Gas (GHG) emissions. Almås et al (2012) [12] state that a resilient food system can be understood as a socio-ecological-political system that possesses a given adaptive capacity to alleviate perturbations.…”

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Confusion and Misunderstanding—Interpretations and Definitions of Local Food

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Developing a more resilient food system based on sustainable food production and consumption is of major concern in creating food security. One issue in this complex field concerns the scale of the food system. Trends and tendencies show that the interest for local food has increased the last decade in Sweden, as well as in other parts of the world. Although the concept "local food" is commonly used, research shows that there is no single definition of it, instead definitions and meanings vary widely. This has led to a need by consumers of clearer information when buying "local food". Several main actors in the Swedish food sector have joined forces to meet this issue. This paper contributes to knowledge on definitions, interpretations, and practice on local food by presenting views and opinions among different actors in the food chain in a Swedish context, but also in the light of an international pilot study. Main findings concern how the meaning of "local food" related to production, processing, raw material, and distance differs among stakeholders in the food chain. A majority stated that the basic meaning of "local food" concerns both the production and consumption within a certain geographical area.

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Confusion and Misunderstanding—Interpretations and Definitions of Local Food

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“…Such neoproductivism has been repositioned in different ways across national political systems (Almas and Campbell, 2012). Although it encompasses a cooperative version enhancing farmers' knowledge, the focus here is a competitive market-driven productivism (Burton and Wilson, 2012).…”

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European transitions towards a corporate-environmental food regime: Agroecological incorporation or contestation?

Levidow

2015

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…For much of the 20 th century, thinking around public health and food was shaped by the perceived need to increase the supply of food [36,37] and the responsibility to protect the public from food borne illness and disease. One could argue that agri-food governance was productivist and protectionist.…”

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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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Reframing Policy Regimes and the Future Resilience of Global Agriculture

Cited by 21 publications

References 5 publications

Confusion and Misunderstanding—Interpretations and Definitions of Local Food

Confusion and Misunderstanding—Interpretations and Definitions of Local Food

European transitions towards a corporate-environmental food regime: Agroecological incorporation or contestation?

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

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