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This book offers insights into the governance of contemporary food
systems and their ongoing transformation by social movements. As
global food systems face multiple threats and challenges there is
an opportunity for social movements and civil society to play a
more active role in building social justice and ecological
sustainability. Drawing on case studies from Canada, the United
States, Europe and New Zealand, this edited collection showcases
promising ways forward for civil society actors to engage in
governance. The authors address topics including: the variety of
forms that governance engagement takes from multi-stakeholderism to
co-governance to polycentrism/self-governance; the values and power
dynamics that underpin these different types of governance
processes; effective approaches for achieving desired values and
goals; and, the broader relationships and networks that may be
activated to support change. By examining and comparing a variety
of governance innovations, at a range of scales, the book offers
insights for those considering contemporary food systems and their
ongoing transformation. It is suitable for food studies students
and researchers within geography, environmental studies,
anthropology, policy studies, planning, health sciences and
sociology, and will also be of interest to policy makers and civil
society organisations with a focus on food systems. The Open Access
version of this book, available at
http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9780429503597, has been
made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non
Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
This book offers insights into the governance of contemporary food
systems and their ongoing transformation by social movements. As
global food systems face multiple threats and challenges there is
an opportunity for social movements and civil society to play a
more active role in building social justice and ecological
sustainability. Drawing on case studies from Canada, the United
States, Europe and New Zealand, this edited collection showcases
promising ways forward for civil society actors to engage in
governance. The authors address topics including: the variety of
forms that governance engagement takes from multi-stakeholderism to
co-governance to polycentrism/self-governance; the values and power
dynamics that underpin these different types of governance
processes; effective approaches for achieving desired values and
goals; and, the broader relationships and networks that may be
activated to support change. By examining and comparing a variety
of governance innovations, at a range of scales, the book offers
insights for those considering contemporary food systems and their
ongoing transformation. It is suitable for food studies students
and researchers within geography, environmental studies,
anthropology, policy studies, planning, health sciences and
sociology, and will also be of interest to policy makers and civil
society organisations with a focus on food systems. The Open Access
version of this book, available at
http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9780429503597, has been
made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non
Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
In recent years, food sovereignty has emerged as a way of
contesting corporate control of agricultural markets in pursuit of
a more democratic, decentralized food system. The concept unites
individuals, communities, civil society organizations, and even
states in opposition to globalizing food regimes. This collection
examines expressions of food sovereignty ranging from the direct
action tactics of La Via Campesina in Brazil to the consumer
activism of the Slow Food movement and the negotiating stances of
states from the global South at WTO negotiations. With each case,
the contributors explore how claiming food sovereignty allows
individuals to challenge the power of global agribusiness and
reject neoliberal market economics. With perspectives drawn from
Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australia, Globalization
and Food Sovereignty is the first comparative collection to focus
on food sovereignty activism worldwide.
When genetically engineered seeds were first deployed in
theAmericas in the mid-1990s, the biotechnology industry and its
partnersenvisaged a world in which their crops would be widely
accepted as thefood of the future. Critics, however, raised a
variety of social,environmental, economic, and health concerns.
This book traces theemergence of the 2000 Cartagena Protocol on
Biosafety - andthe discourse of precaution toward GEOs that the
protocolinstitutionalized internationally. Peter Andree explains
this reversalin the "common-sense" understanding of genetic
engineering,and discusses the new debates it has engendered.
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