Food security in Australia in an era of neoliberalism, productivism and climate change

Lawrence, Geoffrey; Richards, Carol; Lyons, Kristen

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2011.12.005

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“…In Australia, the neoliberal turn (Lawrence et al, 2013) has increased the reliance on markets, rather than publicly-funded welfare, to address domestic food insecurity. This is evident in the new collaborations between civil society and private companies to redirect food waste to those living below the poverty line.…”

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“…Food production began soon after the arrival of the first fleet of colonisers in the 1780s to feed prisoners deported to Australia -with the aim of reducing the burden on Britain to feed them . Today, around 60% of Australia's total production of food is destined for overseas markets, representing 76% of the gross value of farm production (Lawrence et al, 2013). Australia does not subsidise its agricultural production; agricultural policies are instead directed towards the liberalisation of markets.…”

Section: The Food Sector and Agriculture And Food Policiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Food security in welfare capitalism: Comparing social entitlements to food in Australia and Norway

Richards

Kjærnes²,

Vik

2016

Journal of Rural Studies

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The concept of food security is often anchored in popular understandings of the challenge to produce and supply enough food. However, decades of policies for intensive agriculture have not alleviated hunger and malnutrition, with an absence of food security featuring in both economically developing and developed nations. Despite perceptions that the economic growth in advanced, capitalist societies will ensure freedom from hunger, this is not universal across so-called 'wealthy nations'. To explore the dynamics of food security in economically developed countries, this paper considers institutional approaches to domestic food security primarily through responses to poverty and welfare entitlements, and, secondarily, through food relief. Through the lens of social entitlements to food and their formation under various expressions of welfare capitalism, we highlight how the specific institutional settings of two economically developed nations, Australia and Norway, respond to uncertain or insufficient access to food. Whilst Norway's political agenda on agricultural support, food pricing regulation and universal social security support offers a robust, although indirect, safety net in ensuring entitlements to food, Australia's neoliberal trajectory means that approaches to food security are ad hoc and rely on a combination of self-help, charitable and market responses.

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Section: The Food Sector and Agriculture And Food Policiesmentioning

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Food security in welfare capitalism: Comparing social entitlements to food in Australia and Norway

Richards

Kjærnes²,

Vik

2016

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…Central to neoliberal policies is the notion that the market and economic forces are the 'arbiters of economic decision-making [that] seek to limit government intervention to that of stimulating market forces' [12].…”

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“…Throughout the twentieth century, the use of fossil fuels as the essential input into societal progress was 'viewed as a success of management and a contribution to economic good, when it could otherwise easily be considered as a hazard to sustainability' [13]. It is only recently, when scientific evidence concerning externalities associated with the commodification of the environment, in the form of climate change, habitat degradation and food security could be ignored, that governments began to struggle to reconcile the apparently conflicting principles of economic rationalism and sustainability and establish a core component of the policy conditions for a global AP project [12,18].…”

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Sustainable fuel, food, fertilizer and ecosystems through a global artificial photosynthetic system: overcoming anticompetitive barriers

Bruce

Faunce

2015

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This article discusses challenges that artificial photosynthetic (AP) systems will face when entering and competing in a global market characterized by established fossil fuel technology. It provides a perspective on the neoliberal principles underpinning much policy entrenching such environmentally destructive technology and outlines how competition law could aid overcoming these hurdles for AP development. In particular, it critiques the potential for competition law to promote a global AP initiative with greater emphasis on atmospheric carbon dioxide and nitrogen fixation (as well as solar-driven water splitting) to produce an equitable, globally distributed source of human food, fertilizer and biosphere sustainability, as well as hydrogen-based fuel. Some relevant strategies of competition law evaluated in this context include greater citizen–consumer involvement in shaping market values, legal requirements to factor services from the natural environment (i.e. provision of clean air, water, soil pollution degradation) into corporate costs, reform of corporate taxation and requirements to balance maximization of shareholder profit with contribution to a nominated public good, a global financial transactions tax, as well as prohibiting horizontal cartels, vertical agreements and unilateral misuse of market power.

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“…Furthermore, in the conceptualization of food security there is huge divergence (Allen, 2013): on the one hand some researchers analysed the problem according to the stakeholders involved (farmers - Fish et al, 2013; agro-food industry - Brunori et al, 2013;countries and their governments -Dowler et al, 2007;Dowler and O'Connor, 2012;Kneafsey et al, 2013;Taylor-Robinson et al, 2013;individuals and households, and so on), and on the other hand some authors studied policies and practices as a problem or as a solution (Dowler et al, 2007;Lawrence et al, 2013;Marsden, 2013).…”

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Efficiency Analysis of the European Food Banks: Some Managerial Results

2017

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Hundreds of thousands of people in Europe are daily receiving food thanks to local food banks, run basically by volunteers who collect donations, and distribute them to organizations. In this paper, data from a sample of food banks working in 13 European countries are analysed using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), trying to learn about their profiles and find some clues about the efficiency of their operations, comparing them according to variables such as the number of volunteers and permanent staff, the tonnage of food delivered and the number of people served. Significant inefficiencies were found in the sector as a result of some food banks' high performance, thus setting a high level standard of operational efficiency. Some additional results regarding food bank sizes and performance are presented.

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Food security in Australia in an era of neoliberalism, productivism and climate change

Cited by 173 publications

References 17 publications

Food security in welfare capitalism: Comparing social entitlements to food in Australia and Norway

Food security in welfare capitalism: Comparing social entitlements to food in Australia and Norway

Sustainable fuel, food, fertilizer and ecosystems through a global artificial photosynthetic system: overcoming anticompetitive barriers

Efficiency Analysis of the European Food Banks: Some Managerial Results

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