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The Role of Knowledge in Food Democracy [PDF]

open access: yesPolitics and Governance, 2019
If food democracy is about who gets to determine the food that we eat and the character of the underlying food system, then we must examine not only who gets to make decisions that impact on food but also on what evidence, or knowledge, these decisions ...
Camilla Adelle
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Local Food, Food Democracy, and Food Hubs

open access: yesJournal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016
In western North Carolina, where we and others have been working to build local food systems for the last 15 years, food hubs are part of an expanding network of local food distribution infrastructure intended to help the region's smaller local farms ...
Allison Perrett, Charlie Jackson
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Food Democracy as ‘Radical’ Food Sovereignty: Agrarian Democracy and Counter-Hegemonic Resistance to the Neo-Imperial Food Regime

open access: yesPolitics and Governance, 2019
This article argues that a thoroughgoing and meaningful food democracy should entail something closely akin to ‘radical’ food sovereignty, a political programme which confronts the key social relational bases of capitalism.
Mark Tilzey
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Conflicts over GMOs and their Contribution to Food Democracy [PDF]

open access: yesPolitics and Governance, 2019
The use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) embodies a specific vision of agricultural systems that is highly controversial. The article focuses on how conflicts over GMOs contribute towards food democracy.
Beate Friedrich   +3 more
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Expanding food democracy: a perspective from the United States

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023
Food democracy can be a tool to combat capitalist hegemony in the food system and increase citizen’s knowledge about alternatives to obtaining food from concentrated food businesses.
Molly D. Anderson
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Editorial: New Perspectives on Food Democracy

open access: yesPolitics and Governance, 2019
With the overall intention of stimulating the debate on food democracy, this thematic issue aims to shed fresh light on the complex relationship between food and democracy in different contexts.
Basil Bornemann, Sabine Weiland
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Food democracy as food security strategy

open access: yesJournal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
Tourism communities such as Monteverde, Costa Rica, the site of this study, have been profoundly impacted by the loss of tourism revenue during COVID-19.
Mary Little, Taylor Horn, Madeline Sit
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Transitions to food democracy through multilevel governance

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022
Food systems in Europe are largely unjust and not sustainable. Despite substantial negative consequences for individual health, the environment and public sector health and care services, large multi-national corporations continue to benefit from the way
Anant Jani   +50 more
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Opportunities and challenges of food policy councils in pursuit of food system sustainability and food democracy–a comparative case study from the Upper-Rhine region

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022
Conventional food systems continue to jeopardize the health and well-being of people and the environment, with a number of related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) still far from being reached.
Sophie Michel   +12 more
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