Alternative Food Movements

Grauerholz, Liz; Owens, Nicole

doi:10.1016/b978-0-08-097086-8.64133-8

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“…The traditional Roman foodscape in recent years has been crossed by a series of innovative initiatives, which had their symbolic initial moment with the occupation of the land by young farmers and cooperatives in the late 1970s. The particular vivacity of Alternative Food Movements [29] that distinguishes Rome from the post-war period onwards has led the Agro Romano to be the fertile ground for the development of pioneering experiences of urban agriculture and solidarity economy, in conjunction with the grass roots movements for the recovery of abandoned land. Urban agriculture today in Rome is rich in innovative experiences in the fields of organic agriculture and multifunctional agriculture, with particular reference to the social one.…”

Section: Roman Foodscape Descriptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Food System Resilience during COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Roman Solidarity Purchasing Groups

Tarra

Mazzocchi²,

Marino

2021

Agriculture

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The restriction measures linked to the COVID-19 shock suddenly highlighted the vulnerability of most socioeconomic systems, including the food sector. In a context in which the limitation to the movement of people and goods has put the longer and more structured supply chains in serious difficulty, many experiences and initiatives have emerged as viable alternatives. The aim of the research was to understand if and how the Solidarity Purchasing Groups (SPG) of Rome have contributed to the resilience of the food system of the metropolitan city during the lockdown. The research was based on the results of a questionnaire administered to the SPGs of Rome during the first period of the pandemic (April–July 2020), enriched by some in-depth interviews carried out by the authors. What emerged was that, despite the limited extent in terms of products conveyed within the whole food system, the SPGs represented an important food supply channel during the lockdown period, for two main reasons: a greater flexibility and agility in moving and in handling goods and the possibility of remunerating local farms, contributing to the resilience of the local agri-food fabric. The analysis of the results confirms the strong vitality of such Food Movements in Rome and, at the same time, allows for the identification of a series of interventions that the institutions could adopt to favor the spread of a food environment more compatible with more sustainable and fairer forms of food production and distribution.

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Section: Roman Foodscape Descriptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Food System Resilience during COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Roman Solidarity Purchasing Groups

Tarra

Mazzocchi²,

Marino

2021

Agriculture

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“…Moreover, dominant tropes of health and healthy eating practices universalized values specific to Whites and White culture (e.g., eating organic food, tropes of "getting back to the land" and "putting your hands in the soil") and largely ignored contributions and cultural histories from other groups. For instance, the Alternative Food Movement (AFM), which is a social movement based on developing alternatives to the corporate agribusiness domination of the global food system, emerged as a potential model to improve food access and alleviate food system-generated issues, such as food insecurity (Burdick, 2014;Grauerholz and Owens, 2015), but there have been no significant initiatives by leaders of the AFM to involve African-American farmers or an acknowledgment of their farming tradition in health-promoting initiatives.…”

Section: Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Soul Food: [Re]framing the African-American Farming Crisis Using the Culture-Centered Approach

Carter

Alexander

2020

Front. Commun.

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Historically, African-American farmers faced a long and challenging struggle to own land and operate independently. In recent years, several factors, including unfair policy legislation, institutionalized racism, the mechanization of agriculture, and increases in agricultural technology have exacerbated land loss and decreases in farm ownership. Currently, African-American farmers are vastly underrepresented, comprising just 2% of the nation's farmers, 0.5% of farmland and 0.2% of total agricultural sales. As a site for inquiry, this topic has been examined across many academic sub-disciplines, however, the literature has not yet explored how the erasure of the African-American farmer influences the conversation about broader diet-related health disparities in the U.S. This overlooked perspective represents a novel approach to rethinking public health interventions and may improve methods for communicating messages about healthy eating to the African American community. In this essay, we extend (Dutta, 2008) the Culture-Centered Approach (CCA) to foreground the lived experiences and perspectives of a small cohort of African-American farmers (n = 12) living in the U.S. Mid-South as an entry point to address this underexamined area of research and inform future methodological directions of study. Two key themes emerged from the thematic analysis:(1) erasure of the African-American farming tradition and land loss; and (2) solutions to change. Drawing on the understanding that systematic land loss in the African-American community has contributed to wealth disparities between African-Americans and Whites, we argue that the erasure of the African-American farming tradition within mainstream discourses has created communication inequities that disenfranchise the African-American community and may contribute to broader health inequities in food system. Our findings may offer important insights into the methodological development of more effective health campaigns within these communities.

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“…In the course of a general process of politicisation, broadly understood as the expansion and intensification of political contestation in hitherto non-political areas, food has increasingly become a reference point in political debates as well as in individual and collective efforts to initiate processes of social transformation (Alkon & Guthman, 2017). This is reflected in the rise of venues in which people become involved in practices of shaping and changing the way food is produced, distributed and consumed (Grauerholz & Owens, 2015). Such practices range from the development of food-related knowledge and skills to become more self-determined vis-àvis food companies and caring more about one's own health to subversive direct interventions in the food system through urban gardening and practices of food rescue or food sharing; from the consideration of nutritional information and designations of origin in consumer decisions to more institutionalised political participation in food-related decision-making.…”

Section: Forms Of Food-related Empowermentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Many people cite ethical reasons for not consuming animal products. The current food system is largely based on intensive livestock farming and production processes in which the treatment of animals at all stages of production has raised moral concerns (Grauerholz & Owens, 2015). Plant-based diets are also claimed to have a wide range of health benefits, including lower cholesterol levels and a reduced risk of heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, obesity and cancer (Cherry, 2014).…”

Section: Plant-based Dietsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Empowering People—Democratising the Food System? Exploring the Democratic Potential of Food-Related Empowerment Forms

Bornemann

Weiland

2019

PaG

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The current food system, characterised by considerable concentrations of economic and political power, is widely regarded as undemocratic and in many respects unsustainable in its outcomes. To address the democratic deficits in the food system, empowerment has become a central claim and point of reference for actors seeking to transform the system. In fact, numerous venues and practices have emerged in recent years to develop people’s capacities to engage with food issues. These range from local food initiatives and health-food movements to food policy councils and government education policies. This article takes a closer look at the theory and practice of democratic empowerment in the food system. It explores whether and how different forms of food-related empowerment have the potential to improve the democratic quality of the food system. Based on a broad analytical understanding of empowerment that is combined with a notion of power-based complex democracy, it is argued that different forms of food-related empowerment promote the development of different types of power, which in turn are constitutive for different functions of the democratic process. From this perspective, the challenge of democratising the food system lies in linking different complementary empowerment practices into functioning configurations of complex democratic governance.

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Alternative Food Movements

Cited by 15 publications

References 17 publications

Food System Resilience during COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Roman Solidarity Purchasing Groups

Food System Resilience during COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Roman Solidarity Purchasing Groups

Soul Food: [Re]framing the African-American Farming Crisis Using the Culture-Centered Approach

Empowering People—Democratising the Food System? Exploring the Democratic Potential of Food-Related Empowerment Forms

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