40 Years of dialogue on food sovereignty: A review and a look ahead

Chaifetz, Ashley; Jagger, Pamela

doi:10.1016/j.gfs.2014.04.002

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“…This has resulted in debate between the two main discourses that are seen as drivers of food and nutrition security outcomes (Jarosz, 2014;Leventon & Laudan, 2017): food security and food sovereignty. Both discourses present different ways of framing food systems interventions (Chaifetz & Jagger, 2014;Jarosz, 2014;Smith et al, 1992). Given the export policy context of the Philippines, the discourse of food security is concerned with providing access, availability, stability, and utilization of food to meet dietary needs.…”

Section: State Of Food Discoursesmentioning

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“…The scale of food sovereignty is often local-communities can influence their production and consumption practices within specific legal and environmental settings (Cuevas et al, 2015). The discourse of food sovereignty sheds light on the economic and power structures that influence rural development (Chaifetz & Jagger, 2014;Wittman et al, 2010). Food sovereignty activities have a strong presence in the Philippines; farmer movements have been advocating for justice, equity, and greater control over land for decades (Borras, 2006).…”

Section: State Of Food Discoursesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Like food security, food sovereignty is understood differently by different actors. This increases the level of tension and debate between food security and food sovereignty discourses (Chaifetz & Jagger, 2014;Jarosz, 2014) and provides the opportunity for human ecology scholarship to analyze social drivers in food systems.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Human Ecology and Food Systems: Insights from the Philippines

Davila¹

2018

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Feeding the world sustainably requires balancing social, economic, and environmental concerns. The food systems concept guides the study of social and environmental processes that influence food and nutrition security. Human ecology conceptually offers insights into the social components of a system and its interaction with environmental change. This paper demonstrates how human ecology helps identify the dominant discourses that influence dominant social drivers in food systems. This is done through documenting the historical legacies of agricultural commodity production systems in the Philippines since Spanish colonization, and the human and ecological implications of this history. The analysis shows the presence of a maladaptive system influenced by market-oriented food security as a dominant discourse. Alternative discourses focused on sovereignty and participation exist in the Philippines, however these are often marginalised from dominant policy and research programs. The paper discusses how weak feedback processes provide possible intervention points in policy or farmer-led activities to explore alternative pathways to food and nutrition security. The paper concludes with highlighting how human ecology offers useful framework for advancing food systems analysis into social, political, and policy dimensions of food activities. Such analysis can help develop new research and policies that require managing the competing discourses of how to achieve sustainable food and nutrition security.

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Human Ecology and Food Systems: Insights from the Philippines

Davila¹

2018

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“…The guarantee of the right to food fulfilment for every person at any time should not only cover the amount of food, it should also ensure its accessibility and affirm its security as well as the adequacy of its nutrients in accordance with healthy nutrition standards (Kneafsey 2013;Anderson 2013). A country that has satisfied those conditions will achieve national food sovereignty; thus, it will ensure the prosperity of its people (Chaifetz and Jagger 2014).…”

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Food insecurity as a basis for drafting a Strategic Food Sovereignty Plan: A case study of the Kutai Kartanegara District, Indonesia

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Aryudiawan

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This study aims to analyse food sovereignty strategies in an effort to eradicate poverty in a micro-scale region by strengthening its food security status. The research was conducted in the Kutai Kartanegara District East Kalimantan Province in Indonesia. Food insecurity status in the study area was determined based on nine food security indicators. The 237 villages in the Kutai Kartanegara District were ranked based on four classifications of vulnerability to food insecurity. The results showed that 3.80% of the villages were highly vulnerable, 5.06% were vulnerable, 8.86% were slightly vulnerable and 82.28% were food secure. While Kutai Kartanegara was a food secure district, in order to maintain its food security status and enhance the performance of the villages that are still vulnerable to food insecurity, local government, and related stakeholders must work together to develop strategies to improve agricultural productivity, increase the region’s human resources capability and strengthen its infrastructure so food can be more readily accessed.

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“…; McMichael ; Jansen ). While the discourses under the food sovereignty umbrella are wide‐ranging (and sometimes contradictory) (Hospes ; Chaifetz and Jagger ), a common definition involves food sovereignty as ‘the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems’ (Nyéléni Forum for Food Sovereignty ). Many of these discourses and definitions build on the common challenges in linking the right to food – especially for the urban poor – to the right to produce food in rural and agricultural economies using fair, sustainable and equitable models of food production and distribution (Anderson ; de Schutter ; Wittman ; Hospes ).…”

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Food Sovereignty and Fome Zero: Connecting Public Food Procurement Programmes to Sustainable Rural Development in Brazil

Wittman

Blesh

2015

Journal of Agrarian Change

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The global discourse on food sovereignty suggests several mechanisms for improving food security and agricultural livelihoods, including redistributive land reform and restructuring of markets to improve food distribution and access. In Brazil, the Fome Zero (Zero Hunger) social welfare programme has created innovative links between public nutrition and food security programmes and rural development initiatives through mediated market support for the family farm sector. We report on a participatory assessment of the experience of land reform beneficiaries in seven municipalities in Mato Grosso, Brazil, who were contracted to produce food for the Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos (Food Procurement Programme, PAA) and the Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar (National School Feeding Programme, PNAE) under the umbrella of Fome Zero. This analysis offers insight into the opportunities and challenges related to participation in mediated ‘farm‐to‐institution’ food procurement programmes, and assesses their influence on key food sovereignty principles, including agro‐ecological transition, increased market stability and farmer autonomy.

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40 Years of dialogue on food sovereignty: A review and a look ahead

Cited by 47 publications

References 34 publications

Human Ecology and Food Systems: Insights from the Philippines

Human Ecology and Food Systems: Insights from the Philippines

Food insecurity as a basis for drafting a Strategic Food Sovereignty Plan: A case study of the Kutai Kartanegara District, Indonesia

Food Sovereignty and Fome Zero: Connecting Public Food Procurement Programmes to Sustainable Rural Development in Brazil

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