scholarly journals 1. Food justice, food security, and climate engineering

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Kortetmäki
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Justice ◽  
Climate Engineering

scholarly journals Does Urban Agriculture Improve Food Security? Examining the Nexus of Food Access and Distribution of Urban Produced Foods in the United States: A Systematic Review

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 2988 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alana Siegner ◽  
Jennifer Sowerwine ◽  
Charisma Acey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Low Income ◽  
City Planning ◽  
The United States ◽  
Food Justice ◽  
Community Food Security ◽  
The Impact

The aim of our review is to critically analyze the urban agriculture and urban food systems literature in order to understand the impact of urban-produced foods on community food security. We examine the role of city planning, food policy, and civic engagement in creating spaces for urban agriculture in cities across the United States, and whether (and how) these spaces promote food justice and food security. Bringing together multidisciplinary literature on access to urban agriculture and the distribution of urban-produced foods in a thematic, systematic review, we point out gaps in the academic research that would benefit from further study. The review integrates academic literature generated from Web of Science searches with gray literature identified through Google Alerts. We find that while there is a strong focus on elucidating the multiple benefits of urban agriculture, there are few studies that robustly measure the impact of urban farms on improving food security in low-income communities. Much of the literature is theoretical, focused on the production potential of urban agriculture, while more work is needed to understand and overcome barriers to access and distribution among communities in need. We conclude with a set of recommendations for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers who seek to create spaces in cities for food justice, equity, access, and sovereignty.

The Utopian Future of Food in Louis-Sébastien Mercier’s L’An deux mille quatre cent quarante: rêve s’il en fut jamais (1771)

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-37
Author(s):  
JACQUELINE DUTTON
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Food Justice ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Novel Food ◽  
Ideal Solutions ◽  
Food Challenges ◽  
Future Of Food

Louis-Sébastien Mercier’s novel L’An deux mille quatre cent quarante: rêve s’il en fut jamais (1771) was the first futuristic utopia—or “uchronia”—and its treatment of food reveals that alimentary concerns were important markers of both contemporary inequality and future harmony in pre-revolutionary France. This article examines the utopian future of food via three alimentary features of Mercier’s novel: food justice, food security and commensality. By considering these tropes as reflections of perceived flaws in Parisian society, it demonstrates the importance of encouraging imaginary projections of ideal solutions to food crises through such literary experiments. The critiques and ideals related to food presented in L’An 2440 are contextualized through reference to the historical economic and social issues that inspired them. In conclusion, Mercier’s preoccupations in the eighteenth century and his predictions for the twenty-fifth century are considered with regard to their relevance to twenty-first-century food challenges, at a moment that is mid-way between these two points on the author’s alimentary history chronology.

scholarly journals What does it mean to do food justice?

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten Valentine Cadieux ◽  
Rachel Slocum
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Food System ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Food Justice ◽  
Local Food Movement ◽  
The World ◽  
Food Movement ◽  
The U.S

'Food justice' and 'food sovereignty' have become key words in food movement scholarship and activism. In the case of 'food justice', it seems the word is often substituted for work associated with projects typical of the alternative or local food movement. We argue that it is important for scholars and practitioners to be clear on how food justice differs from other efforts to seek an equitable food system. In the interests of ensuring accountability to socially just research and action, as well as mounting a tenable response to the 'feed the world' paradigm that often sweeps aside concerns with justice as distractions from the 'real' issues, scholars and practitioners need to be more clear on what it means to do food justice. In exploring that question, we identify four nodes around which food justice organizing appears to occur: trauma/inequity, exchange, land, and labor. This article sets the stage for a second one that follows, Notes on the practice of food justice in the U.S., where we discuss attempts to practice food justice. Key words: food justice, food sovereignty, food movement, food security, alternative agri-food systems

Nutritional social work: What it is and why it matters

2021 ◽  
pp. 146801732110083
Author(s):  
Arielle Dylan ◽  
Jenni Cammaert
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Food Justice ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Power Sharing ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Nutritional Security

Summary This article introduces the area of nutritional social work, beyond the scope of food security and food injustice, from a critical, anti-oppressive and ecofeminist lens. The goal was not to present concrete frameworks but to initiate a discussion surrounding the relevance of nutritional social work and point in a number of possible directions for incorporation of this subdiscipline into social work praxis. Findings Nutritional security is an instrumental component of food security, as complete nutrition requires more than just enough energy for every human being. This purposeful combining of food security with nutrition security underscores the need to consider these two issues together, requiring integrated social and health outcomes, as well as cohesive community, policy and development goals aimed at eliminating food insecurity and malnutrition. These considerations need to involve the questions of availability, accessibility (both economically and geographically), cultural practices and sustainability that form the cornerstone of food justice efforts. Applications The article highlights the potential contribution of nutritional social work to direct practice, community action, policy development, research and social work education, as it illuminates the pivotal role that nutritional security plays in relation to multilevel considerations of food insecurity, all the while ensuring all people, through participatory, democratizing, power-sharing and equity-creating processes, have access to nutritious foods.

scholarly journals Commercial opportunities for productive development of the quinua. A reflection from the security, sovereignty and food justice

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (111) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Andrea Cely Torres ◽  
Julio Cesar Ducón Salas ◽  
Hadrien Lafosse
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Production Process ◽  
Food Justice ◽  
Food Crisis ◽  
Preliminary Attempt ◽  
The Future ◽  
Global Food ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Productive Development ◽  
Global Food Crisis

Aim: Food security is one of the most pressing issues of our century because of its implications for the future. To that extent, this article is a preliminary attempt to shed light on the opportunities stemming from the commercialization of quinoa. Description: We undertook this study to try and grasp why the Cosmovision of Andean populations consider quinoa as an alternative for development. We first go through some aspects of food security, sovereignty and justice, which will eventually lead us to take a closer look at quinoa’s proper characteristics and production process. We will complement our study by an analysis of data on the commercialization of quinoa in order to evaluate its opportunities internationally. Conclusions: Quinoa presents very interesting nutritive characteristics, offers a variety of seeds, is relatively easy to grow virtually anywhere and can be used in a number of byproducts. To that extent, it should be seriously considered as palatable solution to the global food crisis.

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