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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Food sovereignty"”.
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Food Sovereignty: A Critical Case
For decades, the global food security strategy has operated on the assumption that poverty and hunger result from a state of underdevelopment, which can be alleviated through the distribution of technology to increase farm-level productivity. In more recent years, transnational corporate …
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Transforming food politics: community to community's intersectional ecofeminism and food sovereignty
… approach to analyzing problems in the food system and the activism of the food movement. This research undertakes the case of Community to Community, a grassroots organization that employs an intersectional analysis in their activism to center the voices and perspectives of women, to …
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Shared Lunch: An Ethnography of Food Sovereignty in Whaingaroa and Beyond
Food presents complex interconnectedness between inner and outer; social and political; culture and biochemistry; values and practices; tradition and innovation; wealth and poverty; the global, local and highly personal. Amid this multifaceted intersection vast bodies of contemporary academic …
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Land Grabs and Implications on Food Sovereignty and Social Justice in Senegal
… “land grabs” and that they pose a threat to food sovereignty among Senegalese host communities. Lastly, I argue there needs to be a broader understanding of long-term consequences and risks to insure social justice in areas affected by “land grabs” in Senegal.</p>
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Unsettling food sovereignty in Canada: Settler roles and responsibilities; tensions and (im)possibilities
Critical Indigenous food sovereignty activists and scholars have called settler food sovereignty movements to complicate our understandings of food and food systems in so-called Canada (Coté, 2016; Morrison, 2011; Manson, 2015). These calls include requests for settlers to rethink …
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Food Sovereignty, Gender And Transitions In Traditional Culinary Knowledge In The Chinantla, Oaxaca, Mexico
… various factors causing a transition from food self-reliance to dependence on industrial food supply chains. This shift has challenged these communities’ food sovereignty, that is, their right to determine their own food systems and those systems’ management on their own terms, free from …
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If There Wasn’t Farming, Somebody Wouldn’t Eat: Small Scale Agriculture, Community Autonomy, And Food Sovereignty In Mississippi
… knowledge systems to create community-controlled food systems in dialogue with broader national and global conversations about sustainable agriculture and food sovereignty. Employing a multi-scalar method of analysis, the research studies issues from the perspective of individuals, communities, …
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Building agriculture: an architectural investigation of a new urban farm type to establish food sovereignty In Regent Park, Toronto
… have adequate access to healthy and affordable food1 Across the country this issue is even more prevalent in urban centers compared to rural areas2 .Considering that by 2050, it is estimated that 68% of the world’s population will live in cities, more needs to be done in order to ensure proper …
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Through an Indigenous Lens Food Security is Food Sovereignty: Case studies of Maori of Aotearoa New Zealand and Andeans people of Peru
… in Peru and Mauri Ora in Aotearoa in relation to food security. The aim is to understand food security through an indigenous lens, and potential contributions to food policy. This study contributes to food security by outlining an Indigenous ‘Food security policy framework’. Such framework …
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Food as helper, food as healer: How Cree Elders incorporate food into their helping and healing practices and the implications for Indigenous food sovereignty
… and prejudices have deeply affected Indigenous food systems and thus Indigenous bodies. For Cree peoples in Manitoba, these policies include the criminalization of practicing traditional medicines, residential schools and land dispossession in the name of development. However, despite the …
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Food sovereignty’s potential to address poverty and hunger by creating sustainable peasant led agri-food systems: a case study from the Brazilian food acquisition programme in Mirandiba, Pernambuco
Food sovereignty is an alternative agricultural and rural development paradigm advocated by the international peasant movement La Vía Campesina. This investigation analyses food sovereignty through a historical cross-scale analysis focusing on the livelihoods of peasants in the sertão in …
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The Collective Agency of Black Farmer Organizers in Virginia Advocating for Racial Justice in the Food System
Movements for food sovereignty are socio-political efforts to build collective power and agency. This study builds on the work of Monica White and utilizes a Collective Agency Theory (CAT) lens in exploring the role of Black farmer organizers and their cross-sectoral relationships as they …
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Sprawling Fields and Food Deserts: An ontological exploration of food and farming systems in Ohio
… in the United States and yet Ohioans experience food insecurity at a rate two percent higher than the national average. An analysis of Ohio's agricultural sector in relation to the current global food system suggests that the neoliberal imaginary orders social and ecological relations at both the …
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THE WISDOM OF THE FLIES. SOCIETY, ENVIRONMENT, AND METABOLIC JUSTICE IN RURAL SARDINIA.
… mutually reinforcing effects of industrialised food production on humans, nonhumans, and their environments. To do so, it employs the ethnographic data collected over the course of a 12-month fieldwork in Barbagia, rural Sardinia, by living and working alongside local shepherds. It adds a …
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Plants And Foodways Of The Standing Rock Nation: Diversity, Knowledge, And Sovereignty
… Community members identify specific traditional foods that they know can treat and prevent these diseases. Traditional foods often rely on plants that are found within the Standing Rock landscape, and many elders know how to gather these plants in accordance with cultural values. Interviews with …
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Exploring foodscapes in Small Island Developing States through a transition lens: a mixed-methods investigation
This research is an investigation of foodscapes in Small Island Developing States (SIDS). I explore the complex relationships shaping food systems, diet, and health with respect to the social practices involved in sourcing food in this context. SIDS are a group of 57 diverse countries that have …
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Seeds of sustainability : food literacy communication in sharing gardens
Food is omnipresent in our lives. As humans, we spend a great deal of time thinking about it, growing it, marketing it, looking for it, and consuming it. Yet access to food is anything but guaranteed, even in a thriving city like Vancouver, Canada. On the North Shore, where the cost of living is …
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Promoting an Equitable Eating-Out Food Environment through the Application of a Food Justice Frame: A Case Study
… the effectiveness of developing and applying a "food justice frame" as a mobilization tool to promote an equitable Eating-out Food Environment (EOFE) in an urban neighborhood of Pittsburgh. A mixed-methods approach was taken to gather material and perception data, culminating in a community …
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Alternative Food Production in Cauca, Colombia: The Value of Agroecological Food Systems for Local Small Producers and Consumers
… to offer an integral view of the reality of food production and distribution in the Cauca Department in Colombia, observing the different practices that have caused deep social and environmental struggles including systemic violence, displacement and environmental degradation. The first two …
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