2023
DOI: 10.5304/jafscd.2023.122.004
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Pathways for advancing good work in food systems: Reflecting on the international Good Work for Good Food Forum

Abstract: The crucial roles that workers, especially seasonal and migrant workers, play in our food systems have come under renewed attention in recent years. The coronavirus pandemic resulted in food work­ers being recognized as critical or essential workers in many countries. In 2021, this coincided with the UN International Year of Fruits and Vegetables (IYFV), highlighting the importance of horticul­tural crops to healthy lives globally. Yet, workers’ quality of life in this most labor-intensive form of food product… Show more

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“…This session was organized by the GFASG in collaboration with the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (JAFSCD). JAFSCD has long been a supporter of GFASG scholar-activist sessions and of scholar-activist work through publishing reflective essays about similar discussions among scholars and practitioners focused on critical food systems topics (de Witt et al, 2021;Hammelman et al, 2020;Klassen et al, 2022;Levkoe et al, 2016Levkoe et al, , 2018Rice & Goldberg, 2021; also see the JAFSCD special issue on Indigenous Food Sovereignty in North America, volume 9, supplement 2, 2019).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This session was organized by the GFASG in collaboration with the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (JAFSCD). JAFSCD has long been a supporter of GFASG scholar-activist sessions and of scholar-activist work through publishing reflective essays about similar discussions among scholars and practitioners focused on critical food systems topics (de Witt et al, 2021;Hammelman et al, 2020;Klassen et al, 2022;Levkoe et al, 2016Levkoe et al, , 2018Rice & Goldberg, 2021; also see the JAFSCD special issue on Indigenous Food Sovereignty in North America, volume 9, supplement 2, 2019).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…To this end, content analysis was used to identify whether some social issues are under-or over-represented in the current narrative on bio-districts. It was used as a research technique because it is objective, systematic and generalizable to measure variables (Kerlinger, 1986). Moreover, "it goes beyond the impressionistic observations about the phenomena and can help you make a quantitative expression about the phenomenon" (Prasad, 2008).…”
Section: Content Analysismentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In addition, awareness of the conditions under which food is produced is often missing, leading to human rights violations (Farnsworth et al, 2018), with many agricultural commodity supply chains characterized by inadequate working conditions, overlooked land rights and gender inequality (UNDESA, 2021). Only after the shocks caused by increasing economic and political instability, has the critical importance of food workers and their value to society been recognized, which contrasts sharply with the typically hidden nature of such labor (Klassen et al, 2023).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In addition, some literature discusses the food movement slowly broadening its focus to look beyond the goal of 'sustainable food' and include workers across the food chain and sustainable food production (Gray, 2013;Lo, 2014). Beyond these focus areas, several themes emerged in the literature, including the invisibility of food and farm workers in food systems discussions (Jayaraman, 2014;Hall, 2015;Coplen, 2018;Lozanski and Baumgartner, 2020); a lack of direct engagement by CSOs with food and farm workers (Lo, 2014;Weiler et al, 2016); initiatives and opportunities for including labor in CSOs food systems work (Lo and Jacobson, 2011;Perry, 2019;Klassen et al, 2023); tensions that influence CSOs in their engagement with workers (Myers and Sbicca, 2015;Perry, 2019); and finally how governance spaces may provide an opening for meaningful action (Klassen et al, 2022).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There are indications that this is beginning to shift, as food movement actors have begun to connect their interests in sustainability and food quality with the issues labor activists have long been engaged with (Levkoe et al, 2016;Klassen et al, 2023). This has predominantly taken the form of awareness raising and/or public education initiatives, drawing attention to issues of labor exploitation or seeking support for a particular policy change.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%