The Neoliberal Food Regime, the New Imperialism, and the Emergence of Food Sovereignty

2017 ◽  
pp. 145-194
Author(s):  
Mark Tilzey
Keyword(s):  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Food Regime ◽  
New Imperialism

Whose Food Footprint? Capitalism, Agriculture and the Environment

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert G. Wallace ◽  
Richard A. Kock
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Conservation Agriculture ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Food Regime ◽  
Land Loss ◽  
Wildlife Health ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Right ◽  
Growing Population

Many of the world's largest agribusinesses and their NGO grantees have launched an aggressive public relations offensive claiming highly capitalized monocropping is the only food regime with the production efficiencies needed to both protect the environment and feed a growing population. We critique the proposition as the latest evolution in declensionist greenwashing. In the context of a new land rush in Africa, where 60% of the world's undeveloped farmland remains, Big Food apologias are shifting from what have long been defensive maneuvers covering for the sector's destructive practices to brazen rationalizations such practices are the sole means of saving the planet. The narrative seeks to justify devolving food security into the hands of a small cartel of agricultural conglomerates pressured by the kind of land loss and environmental damage the industry helped bring about in the first place. There are eminently viable alternatives, however. Communal projects in conservation agriculture embody living refutations of the agribusiness program. With the right state support, these latter efforts, some already feeding millions, are in a demonstrably better position to sustainably feed and employ local populations, support broad food sovereignty, and protect wildlife, health and the environment for generations to come. Muchos de las compañías de agronegocios más grandes del mundo y sus ONGs han lanzado una agresiva ofensiva de relaciones públicas argumentando que el monocultivo altamente capitalizado es el único régimen alimentario con las eficiencias productivas necesarias para proteger al medio ambiente y alimentar a una creciente población mundial. En este artículo cuestionamos esta idea como el más reciente lavado de cerebro declesionista. En el contexto de una nueva fiebre colonizadora en África, adonde se encuentran el 60% de las tierras cultivables poco desarrolladas, la apología de la “Big Food” está girando de maniobras defensivas de las prácticas destructivas del sector a una racionalización de la idea de que tales prácticas son la única forma de salvar al planeta. Estas narrativas buscan justificar la necesidad de dejar la seguridad alimentaria en manos del pequeño cártel de conglomerados agrícolas, debido a la pérdida de tierras y los problemas medioambientales actuales, que la industria contribuyó a causar originalmente. No obstante, existen, evidentemente, alternativas viables. Proyectos comunales de agricultura conservacionista refutan rotundamente el programa de los agronegocios. Con el adecuado apoyo del estado, estos esfuerzos (algunos de los cuales ya alimentan a millones) están en una posición claramente mejor para alimentar y emplear poblaciones locales en forma sustentable, para garantizar la soberanía alimentaria y para proteger el medio ambiente y la salud por varias generaciones.

scholarly journals (Agro)ecologia politica dei conflitti per la terra e il cibo in Ecuador

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabella Giunta
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Industrial Agriculture ◽  
Food Regime ◽  
Access To Resources ◽  
Accumulation By Dispossession

The contemporary corporate food regime (McMichael 2018) is characterized by reduction of food to commodity, rural-urban divide, profound asymmetries in access to resources (land and water), extractivism in the form of industrial agriculture (Gudynas 2013; Svampa 2019) and processes of accumulation by dispossession (Harvey 2003). In this context, the paper relies on the approach of political agroecology (González de Molina et al. 2019) to retrace the transformation of food conflicts in Ecuador, from traditional land struggles towards a more complex collective action in the name of food sovereignty, which deals with a scenario of recurring economic and ecological crises.

Multi-functionality vs food sovereignty?

2009 ◽  
pp. 80-99
Author(s):  
Philip McMichael
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Ecological Sustainability ◽  
Food Regime ◽  
Paradigmatic Shift ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Liberal Political Economy

- This paper examines the conditions under which the two strategic concepts of "multi-functionality" and "food sovereignty" have emerged, refocusing the development narrative toward a politics of sustainability. Both multi-functionality and food sovereignty represent sustainable alternatives to neo-liberal political economy. The author argues about the necessity of a paradigmatic shift regarding the meaning of human development in order to revalue food and agriculture as foundations of civilization, in the epistemological sense, and as vectors both of social and ecological sustainability and of public health.Key words: multi-functionality; food sovereignty; food regime; sustainability; food regime transition.

scholarly journals REFLEKSI PARADIGMA KEDAULATAN PANGAN DI INDONESIA: STUDI KASUS GERAKAN PANGAN LOKAL DI FLORES TIMUR

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adi Nugraha ◽  
Mochamad S. Hestiawan ◽  
Dika Supyandi
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Food Regime ◽  
Local Food Movement ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Food Movement ◽  
Small Scale Farmer

ABSTRAKKedaulatan Pangan telah diadopsi sebagai pendekatan pembangunan pangan dan pertanian nasionalbersama dengan konsep kemandirian pangan dan ketahanan pangan. Namun, Program yangdiinisiasi pemerintah lebih dipengaruhi oleh paradigma ketahanan pangan dan kemandirian panganyang lebih rentan terhadap rezim korporasi pangan. Kedaulatan pangan perlu lebih jauhdidiseminasikan sebagai alternatif terhadap rezim korporasi pangan. Studi ini merupakan studikualitatif deskriptif yang menggunakan pendekatan etnografis dalam pengambilan informasi. Kajianterhadap Persepsi terhadap operasionalisasi konsep kedaulatan pangan di tingkat petani dapatdiungkap secara lebih detail salah satunya dengan teori Hegemoni Gramsci, analisa regim pangan,dan teori multi kedaulatan. Hasil kajian menunjukkan bahwa respon petani terhadap kedaulatanpangan dan ketahanan pangan cenderung samar dan menunjukkan keterkaitan yang sejajar non-komplementer. Kedaulatan dapat bekerja baik dalam kondisi yang menghargai adanya keberagamansumber kedaulatan. Kedaulatan pangan memiliki kecenderungan untuk dapat menguatkankeberagaman konteks, budaya, dan pilihan cara produksi sebagai upaya nyata untuk mengurangidampak dominasi regim pangan korporasi terhadap upaya negara dan petani menjamin terpenuhinyahak rakyat atas pangan.Kata kunci: kedaulatan pangan, ketahanan pangan, rezim korporasi pangan, gerakan petaniABSTRACTFood sovereignty has been officially adopted as national food and agriculture developmentapproach along with food self sufficiency and food security. However, state led program wereheavily influence by food security paradigm and food self-sufficiency which more vulnerable topredatory character of corporate food regime. The food sovereignty discourse must be disseminatedfurther as alternative to corporate food regime. The discourse of food sovereignty was put into theaction by NGO and local groups which framed as local food movement initiative. The local foodmovement and the phenomena surrounding its rise needs to be ethnographically scrutinized.Gramsci's theory of hegemony, food regime analysis, relational scale and multiple sovereigntyelucidate the perception of food sovereignty value concept its relation and contestation among smallscale in the Flores Timur. Results shows that in small scale farmer perceived food sovereignty andfood security are interrelated because the persistence penetration of neoliberal economy. Foodsovereignty should be articulated and adapted for different contexts without losing its ground. Foodsovereignty works best with multiple recognitions of sovereignty. Food sovereignty were embraceand strengthen the diversity of contexts, cultures and pathways in order to slow down the furtherdomination of the corporate food regime.Keywords: food sovereignty, food security, corporate food regime, farmer’s movement

scholarly journals The Corporate Food Regime and Food Sovereignty in the Pacific Islands

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jagjit Kaur Plahe ◽  
Shona Hawkes ◽  
Sunil Ponnamperuma
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Food Regime ◽  
The Pacific

scholarly journals Dismantling and rebuilding the food system after COVID-19: Ten principles for redistribution and regeneration

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana James ◽  
Evan Bowness ◽  
Tabitha Robin ◽  
Angela McIntyre ◽  
Colin Dring ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Systems ◽  
Food System ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Food Regime ◽  
Negative Externalities ◽  
Redistributive Policies ◽  
Strategic Policy ◽  
Systems Transformation ◽  
State Responses

The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and cost economies trillions of dollars. Yet state responses have done little to address the negative externalities of the corporate food regime, which has contributed to, and exacerbated, the impacts of the pandemic. In this paper, we build on calls from the grassroots for states to undertake a strategic dismantling of the corporate food regime through redistributive policies and actions across scales, financed through reparations by key actors in the corporate food regime. We present a strategic policy framework drawn from the food sovereignty movement, outlined here as the “5Ds of Redistribution”: Decolonization, Decarbonization, Diversification, Democratization, and Decommodification. We then consider what would need to occur post-redistribution to ensure that the corporate food regime does not re-emerge, and pose five guiding principles grounded in Indigenous food sover¬eignty to rebuild regenerative food systems, out¬lined here as the “5Rs of Regeneration”: Relation¬ality, Respect, Reciprocity, Responsibility, and Rights. Together these ten principles for redistri¬bution and regeneration provide a framework for food systems transformation after COVID-19.

scholarly journals 20 ANOS DA PROPOSTA DE SOBERANIA ALIMENTAR: CONSTRUINDO UM REGIME ALIMENTAR ALTERNATIVO/20 years of the food sovereignty proposal: building an alternative food regime/20 años de la propuesta de la soberanía alimentaria: la construcción de un régimen alimentario alternativo

REVISTA NERA ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 14-33
Author(s):  
Estevan Leopoldo de Freitas Coca
Keyword(s):  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Alternative Food ◽  
Food Regime ◽  
La Via Campesina

Em 2016 completam-se 20 anos da primeira proposição referente à soberania alimentar pela coalizão global de movimentos camponeses La Via Campesina, resultado da sua Segunda Conferência Internacional, em Tlaxcala, no México. Desde então, a soberania alimentar tem sido incorporada como bandeira de luta por diversos outros movimentos do campo e da cidade, organizações e governos. Nesse texto é demonstrado como a soberania alimentar tem se constituído como a principal proposição alternativa ao regime alimentar corporativista, o qual denota como as grandes potências capitalistas, sejam elas estados-nação ou empresas, usam o mercado de alimentos para manter sua hegemonia. O trabalho baseia-se numa ampla revisão bibliográfica e documental sobre a teoria dos regimes alimentares e a soberania alimentar

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