Through the Eyes on the Ground: Re-positioning Rural Agrarian Actors as Leaders in the Local Food Movement during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 322-331
Author(s):  
Allison Cantor
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Local Food Movement ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Shifting Strategy ◽  
Tourism Economy ◽  
Food Movement

Despite Costa Rica’s efforts to promote international tourism, the economy continues to struggle with unprecedented unemployment rates due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is especially concerning for tourism-dependent regions, such as the Monteverde Zone, where most residents have abandoned land-based livelihoods in favor of tourism. This study uses photovoice to illustrate the ways that small-scale food producers have adapted to the unique challenges of the COVID-19 global pandemic in a region that was already experiencing a loss of agrarian identity. Overall, local food producers have been affected by the diminished tourism economy through the closing of restaurants and the decrease in tourists, causing them to experience crop loss. Food producers have adapted to the economic impacts of the pandemic by re-investing their efforts into a local economy. As part of this shifting strategy, some food producers have begun to expand, diversify, and embrace an approach to growing food that is in line with building more resilient models of food production and engaging with their clients in different ways. Using community-based participatory methods, this study illustrates how food producers have adapted to changes brought on by the pandemic, re-positioning some of these rural agrarian actors as prominent figures in the local food movement.

scholarly journals The rise of the local food movement and its impact on rural economies: With examples from the Region of Durham

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Stacey Jibb
Keyword(s):  
Government Policy ◽  
Food System ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Local Food Movement ◽  
Local Food System ◽  
Rural Economies ◽  
Food Economy ◽  
Food Movement

<p>Rural economies across North America continue to see the positive impacts of the rise of the local food movement and the evolution of the local food system. Local food is a fluid definition impacted by several factors. Government policy, geography and the personal relationships that develop between producer and consumer all play a part in shaping what is local. This has altered how consumers interact with the local food economy and has given rise to direct-farm marketing and agri-tourism as ways to participate in the local food system. Using examples from northern Durham Region, this paper examines how rural economies are impacted by the growing demand for access to local food and how that translates into direct impacts for the local economy. </p><p><strong>Keywords: </strong>local food, local food movement, rural economies, direct-farm marketing, food economy</p>

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 Building a safety buffer for European food security: the role of small-scale food production and local ecological and gastronomic knowledge in light of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Renata Sõukand ◽  
Raivo Kalle ◽  
Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco ◽  
Andrea Pieroni
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Food Chains ◽  
Community Based ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Safe Food

The lockdown caused by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has created a situation in which food availability is affected not only by the availability of money but also by the availability of food itself. On the basis of five pillars, including 1) supporting community-based farming, 2) defending small firms, 3) developing narratives on the high value of local food,4) encouraging subsistence gardening and foraging in the wild, and 5) promoting local ecological and gastronomic knowledge, the article points a way forward to attain greater sustainability and resilience of safe food chains that starts with reassessing the relevance of local food systems.

scholarly journals Building a safety buffer for European food security: the role of small-scale food production and local ecological and gastronomic knowledge in light of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Renata Sõukand ◽  
Raivo Kalle ◽  
Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco ◽  
Andrea Pieroni
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Food Chains ◽  
Community Based ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Safe Food

The lockdown caused by the coronavirus 2019 disease (COVID-19) has created a situation in which food availability is affected not only by the availability of money but also by the availability of food itself. On the basis of five pillars, including 1) supporting community-based farming, 2) defending small firms, 3) developing narratives on the high value of local food, 4) encouraging subsistence gardening and foraging in the wild, and 5) promoting local ecological and gastronomic knowledge, the essay points a way forward to attain greater sustainability and resilience of safe food chains that starts with reassessing the relevance of local food systems.

scholarly journals “Ditch red meat and dairy, and don’t bother with local food”: The problem with universal dietary advice aiming to save the planet (and your health)

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-19
Author(s):  
Ryan M Katz-Rosene
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Red Meat ◽  
Local Food Systems ◽  
Dietary Advice ◽  
Local Food Movement ◽  
Dietary Transition ◽  
Food Movement

In recent years there have been increasing calls for “global dietary transition” in order to save the planet and improve human health. One troubling development associated with this is the attempt to delineate in universal terms what constitutes a sustainable and healthy diet. This perspective takes issue with this development, and specifically refutes one increasingly popular dietary narrative which calls for people to avoid red meat and dairy, and which portrays the local food movement as a romantic distraction. In contrast, the paper provides evidence of a range of sustainability and health benefits associated with both local food systems and the agri-food system’s inclusion of ruminants (the suborder of mammals from which humans mostly derive red meat and dairy). Finally, the perspective calls for a pluralist and multi-scalar approach to the multifaceted challenges associated with food production.

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