The governmentality of tropical forests and sustainable food systems, and possibilities for post-2020 sustainability governance

Smallwood, Joanna Miller; Delabre, Izabela; Vergara, S. Pinheiro; Rowhani, Pedram

doi:10.1080/1523908x.2022.2082931

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“…In these books, Lukes adds new chapters, not to further develop the theory presented in 1974, but to claim its relevance and robustness in the face of criticism received over time (Marzano, 2022). Of particular relevance is Lukes' discussion relating to Foucault's concepts of biopower and governmentality (Lukes, 2005, p. 88-98), especially in light of their use in food policy literature (Leach et al, 2020;Juskaite and Haug, 2023;Smallwood et al, 2023). The Foucauldian notion of governmentality refers to the ways in which modern societies' various authorities administer populations, leading individuals to shape their own selves through disciplinary techniques that allow for the exercise of biopower, a power inscribed in people's bodies, changing their attitudes and behaviors from the inside.…”

Section: Food System Digitalization and Associated Risksmentioning

confidence: 99%

Food system digitalization and power shifts

Sodano

2024

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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The article provides new insights into the assessment of food system digitalization by analyzing how the entire process is mainly power-driven rather than the outcome of fair competition among alternative technological patterns. It focuses on the power forces that have accelerated the digital revolution in the food system and how this revolution is enabling certain subjects to exercise old and new forms of power in the economic, political, and geopolitical spheres. The analysis begins with a brief review of food digital technologies and how the existing literature has discussed their possible benefits and risks. It then focuses on the role of agenda power in promoting digitalization and on hegemonic power as the most important form of power produced by digitalization. The aim of the study is to offer a new perspective, based on the analysis of shifts from one form of political power to another, to better analyze the political issues raised by food system digitalization. The results suggest that to resist the negative aspects of digitalization, it is necessary to transform covert conflicts into overt ones and to understand the mechanisms through which the exercise of power blocks the transition from awareness of conflicts to political action.

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Section: Food System Digitalization and Associated Risksmentioning

confidence: 99%

Food system digitalization and power shifts

Sodano

2024

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…To evaluate the production costs within the food supply chain, this paper has opted for data on land resources, water intensity, and the usage of fertilizers and pesticides. Changes in consumption habits have led to an increased demand for palm oil, soybean, timber, and beef, resulting in deforestation [15] and added pressure on habitats and biodiversity. Furthermore, in certain regions considering alterations to agricultural practices, the rising cost of pesticide usage remains a significant factor to be considered, as bio-fertilizers, organic fertilizers, and crop rotations might not provide sufficient soil nutrients [16].…”

Section: Integration Of Agricultural Production Datamentioning

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Response of Food Production and Trade to the Global Socio-Ecological System Network

Xie,

Zhou,

Yang

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Food production and trade play a fundamental role in the globalized food system. However, the phenomena of decreasing food production and trade interruptions are becoming increasingly common. Currently, there is a lack of simultaneous research on food production and import trade. This study compiles socio-economic environmental data from 146 countries and regions worldwide and employs mobile window and network analysis methods to illustrate how food production quantity influences the social-ecological system. The research findings indicate that in the majority of regions worldwide (102 countries), food demand is met through the local food supply, with a predominant distribution in coastal and inland areas. However, 31% of countries or regions primarily achieve food security through import trade, and many of them are island nations and peninsular countries. This discovery provides valuable insights for understanding the diversity and dependency within the global food system. Based on the impact of food production quantity on the global socio-ecological system network, this study reveals the uneven strengths of connections between nodes and inconsistent connection directions. Building upon these findings, we propose recommendations concerning agricultural policies, human-environment relationships, agricultural transformation, and climate change to help prevent and manage food insecurity risks.

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“…Those typically are incremental solutions to new external pressures, such as Europe's increasing concerns with "imported deforestation" (see Geels et al, 2017a;Bager et al, 2021). They may weaken the reproduction of some regime elements but leave untouched the food systems, consumption patterns, or soy and cattle's dominance in Amazonian agricultural land use and rural development strategies (see Delabre et al, 2020;Smallwood et al, 2022).…”

Section: Socio-cognitivementioning

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Understanding deforestation lock-in: Insights from Land Reform settlements in the Brazilian Amazon

Lopes

Lima

2022

Front. For. Glob. Change

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Cropland and pasture expansion continues to erase natural ecosystems at a staggering speed globally, notably in the tropics. Conventional policy approaches, usually focused on a particular land-use change driver (e.g., specific commodities) or individual regulations (e.g., the Amazon Soy Moratorium), have consistently failed to achieve sufficient or sustained results. The swift reversal of Brazil’s earlier success in reducing Amazon deforestation – now again accelerated – offers perhaps the most sobering illustration of that. Therefore, this article draws from scholarship on sustainability transitions to propose a more comprehensive systems view of unsustainable land-use patterns. We examine persistent tropical deforestation as a case of “lock-in,” using a transitions lens, and explore its constitutive elements. As a case study, we analyze the situation of Land Reform settlements in the Brazilian Amazon, where as much as one-third of that biome’s deforestation takes place. While subject to some specific factors, those places are also enmeshed in a broader setting that is common across the Brazilian Amazon’s deforestation frontier (e.g., infrastructure conditions, market demands, and sociocultural norms). Drawing from document analysis of Brazilian policies and fieldwork in three Land Reform settlements in Pará State, we expose multiple forms of techno-economic, institutional, and socio-cognitive lock-in that together drive deforestation systemically in those settlements. These drivers form a strongly consolidated socio-technical regime around large-scale agriculture that includes material and immaterial factors (e.g., cultural ones), a regime that not only resists change but also – like a vortex – pulls others into it. Escaping deforestation lock-in may thus require outside forces to help local actors destabilize and eventually replace this unsustainable land-use regime. International zero-deforestation efforts offer a starting point, but a transition requires moving beyond piecemeal, incremental change or end-of-pipe approaches and toward concerted, strategic action that addresses multiple of those regime elements in a coordinated way to replace it as a system. We argue that understanding deforestation lock-in is vital for tackling its worrisome persistence and that sustainability transitions theory offers an illuminating, but still underutilized, framework to analyze and eventually overcome unsustainable land use.

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The governmentality of tropical forests and sustainable food systems, and possibilities for post-2020 sustainability governance

Cited by 5 publications

References 51 publications

Food system digitalization and power shifts

Food system digitalization and power shifts

Response of Food Production and Trade to the Global Socio-Ecological System Network

Understanding deforestation lock-in: Insights from Land Reform settlements in the Brazilian Amazon

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