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1 online resource (425 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Co-Writers; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction: The food commons are coming ... ; Seeing with new eyes; Valuing food as a commodity is at odds with human history; The thriving commons as a civic counter-movement to the global food crises; The multiplicity of commons: different vocabularies, understandings and practices; The different meanings of the commons to economists and policy makers; The charter to navigate the chapters; Un-common exploration of food commons; Note; Bibliography |
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Part I Rebranding food and alternative narratives of transitionChapter 2 The idea of food as a commons: Multiple understandings for multiple dimensions of food; What is the dominant narrative of food?; What are the commons? Multiple understandings; Epistemic regards on food in academia and grassroots activism; Understandings of commons and food are multiple and phenomenological; The rationale to consider and govern food as a commons; A disruptive paradigm shift: the food commons system; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 3 The food system as a commons; Introduction |
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Food system made of multiple commonsFrom elements to phases: a commons-based approach to the food system; Food system as a commons: theories and practices; Conclusions; Notes; References; Chapter 4 Growing a care-based commons food regime; Introduction; Rethinking the food regime theory; Another new kind of food regime: the commons food regime; Challenges from anti-capitalism perspectives; Care is the core of growing a commons food regime; Entering a new epoch of history; Notes; References; Chapter 5 New roles for citizens, markets and the state towards an open-source agricultural revolution |
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IntroductionA P2P-driven phase transition; The partner state: a theoretical approach; Setting up an open-source agricultural revolution; COFARMIN: a blueprint for a commons-based agricultural system; Proposals for a partner state-enabled transition in food provisioning; Acknowledgements; Notes; References; Chapter 6 Food security as a global public good; Introduction; The multiple interpretations of food security; Multiple understandings of a public good; Concluding remarks; Acknowledgements; References; Part II Exploring the multiple dimensions of food; Chapter 7 Food, needs and commons |
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IntroductionFood as a need and food as a public good; Needs, markets and the moral economies of subsistence; The moral economies of solidarity; Common property, freedom and need; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 8 Community-based commons and rights systems; The goal and the pathway; Food viewed as commons or as commodity; The historic shift in motivations; Marginalization of food workers; Designing community-based commons; Rights systems; Right to food; Making charity unnecessary; Social and environmental dimensions; Conclusion; Notes; References |
| Summary |
From the scientific and industrial revolution to the present day, food - an essential element of life - has been progressively transformed into a private, transnational, mono-dimensional commodity of mass consumption for a global market. But over the last decade there has been an increased recognition that this can be challenged and reconceptualized if food is regarded and enacted as a commons. This Handbook provides the first comprehensive review and synthesis of knowledge and new thinking on how food and food systems can be thought, interpreted and practiced around the old/new paradigms of commons and commoning. The overall aim is to investigate the multiple constraints that occur within and sustain the dominant food and nutrition regime and to explore how it can change when different elements of the current food systems are explored and re-imagined from a commons perspective. Chapters do not define the notion of commons but engage with different schools of thought: the economic approach, based on rivalry and excludability; the political approach, recognizing the plurality of social constructions and incorporating epistemologies from the South; the legal approach that describes three types of proprietary regimes (private, public and collective) and different layers of entitlement (bundles of rights); and the radical-activist approach that considers the commons as the most subversive, coherent and history-rooted alternative to the dominant neoliberal narrative. These schools have different and rather diverging epistemologies, vocabularies, ideological stances and policy proposals to deal with the construction of food systems, their governance, the distributive implications and the socio-ecological impact on Nature and Society. The book sparks the debate on food as a commons between and within disciplines, with particular attention to spaces of resistance (food sovereignty, de-growth, open knowledge, transition town, occupations, bottom-up social innovations) and organizational scales (local food, national policies, South-South collaborations, international governance and multi-national agreements). Overall, it shows the consequences of a shift to the alternative paradigm of food as a commons in terms of food, the planet and living beings |
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Chapter 9 Food as cultural core: Human milk, cultural commons and commodification |
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Food supply
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Global commons.
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Food & beverage technology.
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food sovereignty.
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food studies.
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The commons.
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Food supply
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Global commons
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ferrando, Tomaso
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De Schutter, Olivier
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Mattei, Ugo
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| ISBN |
9781351665520 |
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1351665529 |
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9781315161495 |
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1315161494 |
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9781351665513 |
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1351665510 |
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9781351665506 |
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1351665502 |
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