Local food sovereignty for global food security? Highlighting interplay challenges
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In: Geoforum, Vol. 85, 10.2017, p. 23-26.
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T1 - Local food sovereignty for global food security?
T2 - Highlighting interplay challenges
AU - Leventon, Julia
AU - Laudan, Josefine
PY - 2017/10
Y1 - 2017/10
N2 - The food sovereignty movement proposes a localist approach to meeting food security while delivering broader social, economic and environmental benefits. The movement is spawning multiple local projects of food sovereignty, whereby people are empowered to define their own culturally and environmentally appropriate food systems. As the number of enacted examples increases, the movement is also affecting change at national (and international) levels, with a number of countries creating national strategies or legislation for food sovereignty. We reflect on the challenges created by such scaling up within the existing food system. We propose a focus on issues of institutional interplay in order to identify and critique challenges. We highlight three interplay situations between multiple, diverse enactments of food sovereignty at multiple levels, and between food sovereignty and the broader institutional contexts within which they are embedded.
AB - The food sovereignty movement proposes a localist approach to meeting food security while delivering broader social, economic and environmental benefits. The movement is spawning multiple local projects of food sovereignty, whereby people are empowered to define their own culturally and environmentally appropriate food systems. As the number of enacted examples increases, the movement is also affecting change at national (and international) levels, with a number of countries creating national strategies or legislation for food sovereignty. We reflect on the challenges created by such scaling up within the existing food system. We propose a focus on issues of institutional interplay in order to identify and critique challenges. We highlight three interplay situations between multiple, diverse enactments of food sovereignty at multiple levels, and between food sovereignty and the broader institutional contexts within which they are embedded.
KW - Institutions
KW - Sustainability
KW - Scaling up
KW - Governance
KW - Trade-offs
KW - Transformations
KW - Sustainability Science
KW - Environmental planning
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85030565773&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.07.002
DO - 10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.07.002
M3 - Scientific review articles
VL - 85
SP - 23
EP - 26
JO - Geoforum
JF - Geoforum
SN - 0016-7185
ER -