Can Values-based Food Chains Advance Local and Sustainable Food Systems? Evidence from Case Studies of University Procurement in Canada and the UK

Stahlbrand, Lori

doi:10.48416/ijsaf.v24i1.117

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“…Advocates for localizing food systems emphasize the critical role that agricultural aggregators play in rebuilding the infrastructure of the middle (Day-Farnsworth & Morales, 2011;Stahlbrand, 2017). Farm aggregation is "the consolidation of products from multiple growers" (Day-Farnsworth & Morales, 2011, p. 229) often centred around food hubs and centres.…”

Section: Local Food Infrastructure and Public Procurementmentioning

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Role of Food System Planning in Facilitating Local Food Procurement for School Meals

Blomley,

Soma,

Callihoo

et al. 2023

CPP-APC

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Farm to School (F2S) programs seeks to connect students with their local food system and community. Providing local food to schools, however, relies on the continuity of local food production in British Columbia (B.C.), as well as the capacity and willingness of farmers to support this “alternative market.” Planners have an important role to play in supporting farmers’ ability to sustain local food systems. At the provincial level, planning for farmland preservation through the Agricultural Land Reserve has helped to secure some of the farmland needed to support local food production into the future. However, preserving farmland is only one part of the solution to sustain local food systems. Drawing upon key informant interviews (n=21), this paper identifies planning-related barriers and opportunities for local food procurement in schools. This research emphasizes the invaluable roles that farmers, government, and planners can play in reimagining a just and sustainable food system transition.

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Section: Local Food Infrastructure and Public Procurementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Role of Food System Planning in Facilitating Local Food Procurement for School Meals

Blomley,

Soma,

Callihoo

et al. 2023

CPP-APC

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“…Recent literature has also called for greater engagement with, and more focus on, the state and governance and has critiqued certain elements of food movements for not sufficiently engaging with the state (Desmarais et al, 2017;Andrée et al, 2019). Examples include: Rod MacRae's (2011) work on national food policy, Wayne Roberts' (2014) work on local food policy, Lori Stahlbrand's (2018) work on institutional food procurement, Annette Desmarais and Hannah Wittman's (2014) work on food sovereignty (see also Wittman et al, 2011), among others. Still, some approaches are limited in their ability to meaningfully engage with the state, with others being explicitly state-critical (Rotz, 2017;Roman-Alcalá, 2020).…”

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Enacting just food futures through the state

Barbosa

Coca

2022

CanFoodStudies

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The state is an important, if sometimes overlooked, terrain of struggle for food activists. To explore the ways and extent to which just food futures can be enacted through the state, we present the experience of Brazil. We argue that activists should seek to advance food policies that have broad social appeal to weather political changes in administrations. Our argument is informed by an extensive review of scholarship on the state, corporate influence, and the possibility of promoting progressive agri-food change through the state, as well as the contradictions of doing so. Drawing on (agrarian) political economy we analyse institutional procurement as exemplifying the state’s role not only in ‘stabilizing’ and ‘growing’ the economy but also in enacting ‘redistribution’. Through our research in Brazil, we compare how the Food Acquisition Program (PAA) and the National School Meal Program (PNAE) have been impacted by the far-right’s rise to power since 2016. When mobilizing the power of institutions to change food systems by leveraging the purchasing power of the state, beyond institutionalization, food policies must be participatory and framed as collective gains for society more broadly, rather than for specific social groups. This would keep such policies from becoming the target of competing administrations, as evidenced by the Brazil case.

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Building the intrinsic infrastructure of agroecology: collectivising to deal with the problem of the state

Jonas

2024

Agric Hum Values

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Corporate actors in capitalist food systems continue to consolidate ownership of the means of production in ever fewer hands, posing a critical barrier to food sovereignty and to an agroecological transition. Further, corporate influence on the state is often direct and blatant, but there are also more insidious governance barriers– hegemonic structures of power and ‘common sense’ theories of value that exclude smallholders and local communities from participation in decision-making processes. This is especially pertinent in land use planning and in building processing facilities, usually referred to as ‘value chain infrastructure’, or what I call the ‘intrinsic infrastructure of agroecology’. Using a case study approach, I evaluate the successes and failures of two campaigns for agrarian reform in the Australian state of Victoria, concluding that civil society must act collectively to gain the thick legitimacy needed to work with the state to enact enabling policies for an agroecological transition.

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Can Values-based Food Chains Advance Local and Sustainable Food Systems? Evidence from Case Studies of University Procurement in Canada and the UK

Cited by 3 publications

References 33 publications

Role of Food System Planning in Facilitating Local Food Procurement for School Meals

Role of Food System Planning in Facilitating Local Food Procurement for School Meals

Enacting just food futures through the state

Building the intrinsic infrastructure of agroecology: collectivising to deal with the problem of the state

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