Political Ecology, Food Regimes, and Food Sovereignty

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Tilzey
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Food Regimes

scholarly journals Between activism and science: grassroots concepts for sustainability coined by Environmental Justice Organizations

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Martinez-Alier ◽  
Isabelle Anguelovski ◽  
Patrick Bond ◽  
Daniela Del Bene ◽  
Federico Demaria ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Corporate Accountability ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Environmental Racism ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Academic Scholarship ◽  
Water Justice

In their own battles and strategy meetings since the early 1980s, EJOs (environmental justice organizations) and their networks have introduced several concepts to political ecology that have also been taken up by academics and policy makers. In this paper, we explain the contexts in which such notions have arisen, providing definitions of a wide array of concepts and slogans related to environmental inequities and sustainability, and explore the connections and relations between them. These concepts include: environmental justice, ecological debt, popular epidemiology, environmental racism, climate justice, environmentalism of the poor, water justice, biopiracy, food sovereignty, "green deserts", "peasant agriculture cools downs the Earth", land grabbing, Ogonization and Yasunization, resource caps, corporate accountability, ecocide, and indigenous territorial rights, among others. We examine how activists have coined these notions and built demands around them, and how academic research has in turn further applied them and supplied other related concepts, working in a mutually reinforcing way with EJOs. We argue that these processes and dynamics build an activist-led and co-produced social sustainability science, furthering both academic scholarship and activism on environmental justice.Keywords: Political ecology, environmental justice organizations, environmentalism of the poor, ecological debt, activist knowledge

scholarly journals Food sovereignty, Diné ontologies: spiritual and political ecology as tools for self-determination

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-59
Author(s):  
Eugénie Clément Picos
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Navajo Nation ◽  
Tribal Government ◽  
Indigenous Lands ◽  
Actual Movement

This article focuses on the different actors involved in the food sovereignty movement in the Navajo Nation. By first looking at the historical roots of colonization and western dominance over Indigenous lands and their food systems, I try to give some perspective on the actual movement to end colonization and capitalism. Both are seen as linked and are considered obstacles for the self-determination of the Navajos and Indigenous Peoples in general. The different actors involved (farmers, grassroots activists, intellectuals and academics) put forth food sovereignty as a key tool for decolonization. This might include a structural change in their political and economical lives, with interpersonal conflicts and frictions with the tribal government and the federal one. The tensions between the extractive economy, environmentalists and food sovereignty are present in the Navajo nation and impact their communities and the quality of their lives.

scholarly journals The Political Ecology of Hedgerows and Their Relationship to Agroecology and Food Sovereignty in the UK

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Tilzey
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Soil Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Farming System ◽  
Services Delivery ◽  
Agroecological Transition ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Ecosystem Disservices

Hedgerows can make an important contribution to agroecological transitions and to an overall contribution to multifunctional agro-ecosystems with multiple benefits for biodiversity, climate change mitigation, soil health, human health, well-being, and livelihoods. Where such agroecological transition assumes the form of political agroecology, this can underpin transformation of the farming system towards food sovereignty. Current mismanagement of hedgerows is constraining the optimum delivery of ecosystem services by these important features of the British landscape. This mismanagement is, moreover, an integral part of a (capitalist) productivist degradation of the countryside that is contributing to the delivery of ecosystem disservices and is, therefore, antithetical to the adoption of agroecological production practises. Being contrary to the requirements of political agroecology, it is similarly antithetical to the requirements of food sovereignty. In response, this paper outlines what appears to be required, in policy and political terms, for the adoption of an agroecological and food sovereignty framework enabling the sustainable management of hedgerows and maximising their potential for ecosystem services delivery.

scholarly journals Boreal Agriculture Cannot Be Sustainable Without Food Sovereignty

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Keske
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Food System ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Community Governance ◽  
Food Regimes ◽  
Local Access ◽  
The Right ◽  
Agriculture And Food

Food sovereignty encompasses the right of humans to have access to, and to produce, healthy and culturally appropriate food. Food sovereignty exists within the “social” pillar of sustainability and sustainable food production. Over time, and as a result of colonialism and neo-liberal food regimes, Indigenous food system patterns in boreal regions have been disrupted. Imports make local food production economically infeasible. The intersection of food sovereignty and international trade is understudied. Food insecurity cycles are likely to perpetuate without deliberate action and government intervention. Policies that facilitate local access, and ownership, of agriculture and food processing facilities may foster food sovereignty. Indigenous community governance, and agricultural practices, are critical to restoring environmental and social sustainability.

Entrevista a Víctor Manuel Toledo Manzur

2020 ◽  
pp. 128-132
Author(s):  
Iñaki Barcena Hinojal
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Food Sovereignty

Keywords: progressive governments, environmental hell, food sovereignty, agroecology, political ecology

scholarly journals Achieving Food System Resilience Requires Challenging Dominant Land Property Regimes

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Calo ◽  
Annie McKee ◽  
Coline Perrin ◽  
Pierre Gasselin ◽  
Steven McGreevy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Food System ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
System Transformation ◽  
Property Relations ◽  
Global North ◽  
System Resilience

Although evidence continues to indicate an urgent need to transition food systems away from industrialized monocultures and toward agroecological production, there is little sign of significant policy commitment toward food system transformation in global North geographies. The authors, a consortium of researchers studying the land-food nexus in global North geographies, argue that a key lock-in explaining the lack of reform arises from how most food system interventions work through dominant logics of property to achieve their goals of agroecological production. Doing so fails to recognize how land tenure systems, codified by law and performed by society, construct agricultural land use outcomes. In this perspective, the authors argue that achieving food system “resilience” requires urgent attention to the underlying property norms that drive land access regimes, especially where norms of property appear hegemonic. This paper first reviews research from political ecology, critical property law, and human geography to show how entrenched property relations in the global North frustrate the advancement of alternative models like food sovereignty and agroecology, and work to mediate acceptable forms of “sustainable agriculture.” Drawing on emerging cases of land tenure reform from the authors' collective experience working in Scotland, France, Australia, Canada, and Japan, we next observe how contesting dominant logics of property creates space to forge deep and equitable food system transformation. Equally, these cases demonstrate how powerful actors in the food system attempt to leverage legal and cultural norms of property to legitimize their control over the resources that drive agricultural production. Our formulation suggests that visions for food system “resilience” must embrace the reform of property relations as much as it does diversified farming practices. This work calls for a joint cultural and legal reimagination of our relation to land in places where property functions as an epistemic and apex entitlement.

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