Ecovillage foodscapes: zooming in and out of sustainable food practices

Ulug, Ciska; Trell, Elen‐Maarja; Horlings, L.G.

doi:10.1007/s10460-021-10213-1

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“…Alternative food practices, AFNs, and alternative foodways allow practitioners to connect to a food's origins and serve as pathways to achieve sustainability and food sovereignty. Ulug, Trell, and Horlings note that sustainable food systems "prioritize environmental, social, and economic health, through connecting producers and consumers, reducing harmful external inputs, and promoting affordability and accessibility throughout the food chain" [31] (p. 1042).…”

Section: Alternative Pathways To Sustainability and Sovereigntymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Wild Food Foraging in Oklahoma: A Pathway to Creating Imagined Foodways and Foodscapes

Fleming,

Mix

2024

Sustainability

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Foraging, the gathering of wild edibles for food and medicinal use, opens opportunities to connect with local environments and pursue sustainability and food sovereignty. We engage with insights from semi-structured qualitative interviews, participant observation, and site visits with individuals identifying as foragers and wildcrafters across Oklahoma to better understand foragers’ interactions with local wild food and foodscapes. We ask: Why do individuals in Oklahoma forage and/or wildcraft? How do foraging practices provide a pathway to support the creation of imagined foodways and foodscapes? We review the literature on foraging and foodways to situate foraging within alternative food systems and consider dimensions of sustainability and sovereignty within foodscapes. Foragers and wildcrafters reveal that their practices foster both tangible and non-tangible benefits, including deep connections with place and nature in the process of procuring wild edibles. While participants come to foraging in various ways, their strategies include engagement with sustainable practices and greater control and agency in food access. Building on the concept of ‘imagined foodways,’ we introduce ‘imagined foodscapes’ to illustrate foragers’ ability to create food practices and spaces based on their ideal methods of procuring and connecting with food.

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Section: Alternative Pathways To Sustainability and Sovereigntymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Participants frame their practices as place-based and relational [31]. It is common for foragers to connect individual or household habits not only to plants growing around them, but to the humans with whom they share their environments.…”

Section: Enhancing Control Through Sustainable Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Wild Food Foraging in Oklahoma: A Pathway to Creating Imagined Foodways and Foodscapes

Fleming,

Mix

2024

Sustainability

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“…In this context, the foodscape can be conceived as a social and spatial lens through which to view food and space, with specific attention to place and relationality across scales [18,28,29], as well as distances defining geographies of multiple embeddedness [28,[30][31][32][33]. These new conceptualisations of the foodscape aim to move beyond the overly deterministic causal relations between people and the material environment, emphasising how foodscapes are complex and interconnected systems whose characteristics are the results of endogenous and context-based elements and interactions, but also of socio-economic, cultural and political dynamics that occur at more-than-local scales [34][35][36][37][38].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Foodscapes emerge as a potent analytical lens for understanding how social practices and relations, as well as economic and political dynamics, influence the material realities of places linked to the production, commercialisation and consumption of food [24,39]. Deploying the concept of the foodscape in the analysis of a local landscape makes it possible to draw a network that links tangible and intangible aspects of the local milieu, illustrating key knots in the web [35,37]. The material components of the foodscape shape and are shaped by cultural, political and social dynamics [19,34,40], as well as by local and context-based knowledge, perceptions and representations of food and food-related elements [40,41].…”

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The Intersections between Food and Cultural Landscape: Insights from Three Mountain Case Studies

Fontefrancesco

Zocchi

Pieroni

2023

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In the last decades, scholars from different disciplines have used the foodscape as a concept and an analytical framework to explore the intersection between landscape, people and food culture. Adopting a comparative case-study analysis, this article aims to show how a foodscape can be used as a lens to investigate cultural landscapes, specifically in mountain areas affected by fast structural socio-economic and ecological changes, identifying key tangible and intangible elements, the underpinning relationship and values, as well as the factors underlying their evolution and transformation. In this way, the article indicates this concept as a key tool for landscape management and conservation. We discuss three different and complementary approaches to the analysis of cultural landscapes, namely, from food products to landscape analysis (Albania), from food production practices to landscape analysis (Kenya) and from food-related rural architecture to landscape analysis (Italy). Overall, the research highlights how implementing a foodscape lens among the different levels of landscape analysis could contribute to the assessment, protection and promotion of local food-related resources. In so doing, it opens new research aimed at defining the limits of this heuristic instrument, where its most promising aspects of the foodscape have been explored in the article.

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“…The SKIN template expanded the EIP-AGRI practice abstract template in an effort to explicitly investigate SFSCs. This study follows a research approach of 'zooming in' on characteristics of practices, and 'zooming out' on their embedded context by demonstrating how these practices are dependent in strategic social networks [25,[39][40][41].…”

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Multi-Actor Social Networks: A Social Practice Approach to Understanding Food Hubs

Hyland¹,

Macken‐Walsh²

2022

Sustainability

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Food hubs are collaborative entities that strategically manage the assemblage, delivery, and promotion of food from a range of local food producers. They are essentially multi-actor institutions, involving horizontal collaboration between producers and vertical collaborations up and down the food chain, involving all actors required to bring food products from producers to consumers. Although food hubs offer many advantages to both producers and consumers, they remain a recognisably neglected research topic in Europe. Furthermore, the strategic networks of actors involved in these collaborative entities is often overlooked. Empirically, this study draws from a collection of ‘good practices’ gathered for the Short Supply Chain Knowledge and Innovation Network (SKIN) EU-funded H2020 project. Drawing on a social practice approach and network diagrams, this article explores the good practices of three food hub typologies. This study primarily investigates the context in which food hubs practice multi-actor food provision. We apply social practice as a lens to ’zoom in’ and explore the shared materials, meanings and skills that aid such systems of provision. Social network diagrams are utilised to ‘zoom out’ to examine and facilitate the detection of key actors involved in food hubs’ strategic networks. This research addresses the lack of academic attention on European food hubs by placing practice as the central unit of focus. Our approach enables better comprehension of what constitutes a short food supply chain (SFSC) when orchestrated within three main typologies of food hubs. The findings are of interest to researchers, policy makers, agricultural development intermediaries, and actors involved in systems of food provision who are interested in understanding and supporting the functioning of SFSCs.

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Ecovillage foodscapes: zooming in and out of sustainable food practices

Cited by 10 publications

References 75 publications

Wild Food Foraging in Oklahoma: A Pathway to Creating Imagined Foodways and Foodscapes

Wild Food Foraging in Oklahoma: A Pathway to Creating Imagined Foodways and Foodscapes

The Intersections between Food and Cultural Landscape: Insights from Three Mountain Case Studies

Multi-Actor Social Networks: A Social Practice Approach to Understanding Food Hubs

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