The Global Environmental Politics of Food

Clapp, Jennifer; Scott, Caitlin

doi:10.1162/glep_a_00464

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“…The cumulative impacts of collective action in the Maritimes’ land‐based food system map closely onto the established drivers of adaptive capacity that are required for successful resilience to climate shocks and adaptation to climate change. Adaptive capacity in systems relies on social, human and financial capital (Adger, ; Christmann et al, ; Paul, Weinthal, Bellemare, & Jeuland, ), as well as sufficient institutional agency between actors and governance structures (Adger et al, ; Clapp & Scott, ; Delaney, Chesterman, Crane, Tamás, & Ericksen, ; van Bers et al, ). Social and human capital in the region are built and maintained through socialized learning, informal discussions and networks of reciprocity and trust (Adger, ; Wynne‐Jones, ), as well as by creating spaces for deliberation and organization.…”

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Farming along desire lines: Collective action and food systems adaptation to climate change

2020

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1. We examine collective action in the food system of the Canadian Maritimes to determine its effect on the resilience and adaptive capacity of food producers, distributors, retailers and governance institutions.2. Our data suggest that beyond their immediate benefits for their participants, expressions of collective action generate higher-level impacts which often translate into drivers of adaptive capacity. Drawing on a metaphor from urban design, we suggest that collective actionshould be considered a desire line for food systems adaptation: rather than building adaptation strategies based on top-down design, collective action emerges from farmers' needs and capacities to build financial resilience, enhance human and social capital and strengthen institutional agency within the system.

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Farming along desire lines: Collective action and food systems adaptation to climate change

2020

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“…By analogy, a balance between competing requirements on CDR will only be struck if clear governance principles are in place. These need to specify that CDR approaches are to be deployed if they are not only demonstrated to be effective, costeffective, accountable, and safe by international standards but also interact with the local environment, culture, and economy in ways acceptable to each jurisdiction where they are to be deployed or where they will have impacts (CGG, 2014). How might such a broad principle be developed into equitable global CDR policy?…”

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Governing Net Zero Carbon Removals to Avoid Entrenching Inequities

Healey¹,

Scholes²,

Lefale³

et al. 2021

Front. Clim.

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Climate change embeds inequities and risks reinforcing these in policies for climate change remediation. In particular, with policies designed to achieve “net zero” carbon dioxide, offsets may be considered inequitable if seen to avoid or delay gross emission reductions; offsets to emissions through technologically mature methods of carbon dioxide removals (CDR) require natural resources at scales threatening food security; knowledge of the potential of immature CDR is largely a global north monopoly; and CDR in particular environments is ill-understood and its implications for development unexamined. The use of CDR to contribute to robust progress toward Paris climate goals requires global agreement on simultaneously reducing emissions and enhancing removals, equity in burden sharing, and an interdisciplinary effort led by individual jurisdictions and focused on the co-development of technologies and governance to create CDR portfolios matched to local needs.

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“…This fragmentation is characterised by incoherent or conflicting sector goals, disconnects between global and local ambition and action and imbalanced power dynamics between actors (Hogl et al, 2016); Winkel and Sotirov 2015). It also may be affected by the multi-level nature of regulation and the devolution of rule-making authority to private initiatives like forest certification (Clapp and Scott, 2018). The challenge for developing an National REDD + Strategy is therefore not only to define and quantify drivers of deforestation and forest degradation, and associated policy responses, but also understand and overcome policy fragmentation.…”

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Policy integration as a means to address policy fragmentation: Assessing the role of Vietnam’s national REDD+ action plan in the central highlands

Kissinger

Brockhaus

Bush

2021

Environmental Science & Policy

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The Vietnamese National REDD + Action Plan (NRAP) seeks to reduce emissions from forest clearing and land use, especially from the main drivers of coffee and rubber commodity expansion. Achieving the NRAP goals, however, means negotiating a complex and fragmented forest policy arena, with conflicting sector goals, disconnects between global and local ambition and action, and imbalanced power dynamics between actors. We map the fragmentation of this policy arena and explore the extent to which the NRAP is able to integrate policy responses to drivers to achieve emissions reductions. We examine what the NRAP sought to integrate, what was not taken into account, what is integrated at which scale, and which actors are part of integration (or not) across the policy process components. We conclude that if policy integration does not affect a 'whole of government' shift in priorities or change in mandate among driver sectors, fragmented policy arenas will persist and forestbased climate mitigation objectives will not be achieved.

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The Global Environmental Politics of Food

Cited by 26 publications

References 45 publications

Farming along desire lines: Collective action and food systems adaptation to climate change

Farming along desire lines: Collective action and food systems adaptation to climate change

Governing Net Zero Carbon Removals to Avoid Entrenching Inequities

Policy integration as a means to address policy fragmentation: Assessing the role of Vietnam’s national REDD+ action plan in the central highlands

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