Food sovereignty: convergence and contradictions, conditions and challenges

Alonso-Fradejas, Alberto; Borras, Saturnino M.; Holmes, Todd; Holt-Giménez, Eric; Robbins, Martha Jane

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“…Recent studies on food sovereignty have demonstrated that food sovereignty is not an outcome, but a dynamic process that unfolds over time and changes its forms depending on the political situation and the actors involved in its construction (Alonso‐Fradejas et al . ; Shattuck et al . ; Schiavoni ).…”

Section: Links Between Food Sovereignty National Identity and Patriomentioning

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Patriotism and Food Sovereignty: Changes in the Social Imaginary of Small‐Scale Farming in Post‐Euromaidan Ukraine

Mamonova

2017

Sociologia Ruralis

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This article discusses the relations between patriotism and food sovereignty in postEuromaidan Ukraine. It investigates how the rising Ukrainian national identity and patriotic sentiments during the geopolitical conflict with Russia led to a change in the social imaginary of traditional small-scale farming. Formerly, household farming was seen as a coping strategy of the post-Soviet population and a relic of the socialist past, doomed to disappear in the nearest future. Nowadays, more and more Ukrainians view small-scale farming as a sustainable alternative to large-scale industrial agriculture, which could feed Ukraine (and Europe) with ecological and healthy food. This study uses primary qualitative and quantitative data collected during field research before and after the Euromaidan revolution to reveal how pro-European aspirations and rising patriotism contribute to the emerging discourses on the 'rights to food and to farm' in Ukraine. This transformation could bring a new trajectory to the country's agricultural development and might lead to the emergence of a food sovereignty movement.

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Section: Links Between Food Sovereignty National Identity and Patriomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thereby, this study responds to the recent call for research that focuses on contextually specific articulations of food sovereignty and deals with local history and culture, social attributes and identities (Alonso‐Fradejas et al . ; Shattuck et al . ).…”

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Patriotism and Food Sovereignty: Changes in the Social Imaginary of Small‐Scale Farming in Post‐Euromaidan Ukraine

Mamonova

2017

Sociologia Ruralis

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“…Scholars have extensively researched the importance and potential of local food over recent decades, for instance, in the flourishing examinations of Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) (Fraňková and Johanisova, 2012;Starr and Adams, 2003) and food sovereignty movements (Holt-Gimenez et al, 2018). However, less attention has been placed on APNs relating to the wider array of global dependencies evident across other goods.…”

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Mapping complexity in deglobalisation: A typology of economic localisms from ‘hyper-localism’ to ‘strategic autonomy’

Smith

2023

Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

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In recent years, scholarly attention has turned to the fracturing of global supply chains and the costs and benefits of reorienting economies to the local scale. While its real extent is debated, the term ‘deglobalisation’ has been broadly used to refer to this break from the expansionist neoliberal common-sense of previous decades. This paper conducts narrative reviews of six approaches which have emerged in this context: Hyper-localism, Open Localism, Cosmo-localism, Foundational Economy, Developmental Nationalism and Strategic Autonomy. It examines these emerging proposals for more local production, consumption and trade, and hints at relevant research directions for the uncertain era ahead. Its conceptual contribution shows that we are now faced with complex and differing processes of (de)globalisation – sometimes overlapping and sometimes competing. Grounded in a post-growth perspective, the paper concludes with an invitation for dialogue and future research around local production where capitalist political economy and organisation are not taken for granted.

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“…For example, very few movements address immediate problems (such as hunger, malnutrition and degraded natural resources) while working towards structural changes needed for sustainable and democratic food systems (Martiniello 2015 ). In addition, the changes brought about through local practice are often small, and hard to scale toward lasting, transformative institutions or social structures (Alonso-Fradejas et al 2015 ; Fairbairn 2012 ; Hinrichs 2003 ). Alternative agrifood movements (farmers markets, organic grocery stores, CSAs) are also critiqued for being inconsistent with social justice, as the practices inadvertently reproduce exclusions and run the risk of “defensive localism” (Winter 2003 ).…”

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Sustainability transitions in the context of pandemic: an introduction to the focused issue on social innovation and systemic impact

Desa

Jia

2020

Agric Hum Values

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For society to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, the agri-food industry needs a substantial sustainability transition toward food systems capable of delivering greater volumes of nutritious food, while simultaneously lowering the environmental footprint. This issue of AHV focuses on the big picture-on mechanisms of sustainability transition, from social innovation, to models of finance and institutional systems, and calls for business and agricultural researchers to transform the sector together. Contributors to this issue embrace a transdisciplinary outlook, including scientific, technical, social and political dimensions of agroecology. This issue is a call to action: to encourage the community of social entrepreneurs, ecosystem players and researchers to contribute analytical methods, experiences and scientific insights on emerging social innovations related to food, agriculture and rural-urban transformation.

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Food sovereignty: convergence and contradictions, conditions and challenges

Cited by 5 publications

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Patriotism and Food Sovereignty: Changes in the Social Imaginary of Small‐Scale Farming in Post‐Euromaidan Ukraine

Patriotism and Food Sovereignty: Changes in the Social Imaginary of Small‐Scale Farming in Post‐Euromaidan Ukraine

Mapping complexity in deglobalisation: A typology of economic localisms from ‘hyper-localism’ to ‘strategic autonomy’

Sustainability transitions in the context of pandemic: an introduction to the focused issue on social innovation and systemic impact

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