Food as a Commons: Reframing the Narrative of the Food System

Pol, Vivero; Luís, José

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2255447

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“…This appears to be a significant process of innovation, in line with the perspective that looks at the close link between the development of sustainable regional food systems and community resilience [22]. Some scholars consider this process even more meaningful, as it entails a radical change in the positioning of food in social life, according to a process of "re-commonification" capable of uniting all players around the vision of "food as a commons" [58]. The concepts of re-spatialization and re-socialization of food systems and of re-embedding the economic into the social assume their fullest sense: the relationship among food, actors engaged around it, places and ways of production and consumption is entirely redefined.…”

Section: Final Remarks: Capturing the Value Of Alteritymentioning

confidence: 92%

Beyond Food Provisioning: The Transformative Potential of Grassroots Innovation around Food

Rossi

2017

Agriculture

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Abstract:The newly-emerged ethical foodscape includes multiple expressions of innovation around food. With reference to the Italian context, this paper focuses on the transformative potential of the experiences of social innovation, innovative grassroots initiatives, which have been significantly contributed to shaping the food culture and production-consumption practices during the last two decades. While still consolidating their fundamentals and facing the challenge of growth, the networks behind them continue to be engaged in an effort of innovation, inside and outside their niche. The paper explores these dynamics. Understanding how these networks are managing their transformative capacity and what are the opportunities and challenges arising in the relation with the mainstream system may help to better capture and value the potential of this innovation niche, drawing useful lessons for fostering its expression and for a broader transition to more equitable and sustainable food systems.

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Section: Final Remarks: Capturing the Value Of Alteritymentioning

confidence: 92%

Beyond Food Provisioning: The Transformative Potential of Grassroots Innovation around Food

Rossi

2017

Agriculture

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“…Moreover, many scientists affirm that food is available to feed the world's population, but that people remain hungry because food has been affected by a highly uneven distribution of people's vital needs. Therefore, the solution is to make food available for all people around the world [24]. By taking into account the economic context, we find that economic cooperation that achieves gains for all parties is a good way to achieve food security corresponding to the previous theory.…”

Section: Food Securitymentioning

confidence: 67%

Analyzing the Relationship between Agricultural FDI and Food Security: Evidence from Belt and Road Countries

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This study analyzes the relationship between agricultural foreign direct investment (FDI) and food security on Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) countries in a panel framework over the period 2006–2015 using correlation analysis, the specific-effect model, and the 2SLS technique. The study aims to: first, analyze the correlation between agricultural FDI and food security for each country, individually; then, investigate whether there is a direct relationship, using the specific-effect model. Finally, by taking one step further, this study uses the 2SLS method to determine whether there is an indirect relationship through agricultural productivity. Our results show that the sampled countries have clear differences in the direction of the relationship between food security and agricultural FDI. But, in general, the agricultural FDI has a positive direct and indirect effect on food security; this effect is seen clearly when the country attracts agricultural FDIs steadily.

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“…Authors highlight the evolutionary dimension of the attributes of goods that can change with technology, growing scarcity, or even institutional design (Harribey ). Public goods, for example, can become common‐pool resources when they are depleting, such as air or food (De Moor ; Vivero Pol ). New technologies can alter the cost of exclusion of goods.…”

Section: The Analytical Framework: the Theory Of The Commonsmentioning

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Understanding Cooperative Finance as a New Common

Périlleux

Nyssens

2017

Ann Public Coop Econ

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The emerging field of common good socio-economics is promising not only for the preservation of common natural resources but also for common goods created by people through collective action, the importance of which has been emphasized by the recent financial and economic crisis. Based on the case of cooperative finance, this paper's outcomes are twofold. First, it shows that while the boundaries between the nature and property regime of goods may be relatively clear for natural common goods, they appear much more interlinked for human-made goods, where commons are embedded in intergenerational reciprocity. Second, it demonstrates that financial cooperatives can be understood as human-made commons and proposes a new way of thinking about public policies to design adequate legislation to protect these commons from isomorphism, privatization and destruction.2 Demutualization occurs when cooperative financial institutions are converted into stock companies, through the sale of 100% of the shares to depositors and insiders as part of an initial public offer.

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Food as a Commons: Reframing the Narrative of the Food System

Cited by 25 publications

References 69 publications

Beyond Food Provisioning: The Transformative Potential of Grassroots Innovation around Food

Beyond Food Provisioning: The Transformative Potential of Grassroots Innovation around Food

Analyzing the Relationship between Agricultural FDI and Food Security: Evidence from Belt and Road Countries

Understanding Cooperative Finance as a New Common

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