Terms Definition: Key Concepts
Food system – all activities that permit to achieve food security that is providing access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food for healthy and active life.
Governance – the act to coordinate a multiplicity of public-private actors towards the achievement of positive outcomes.
Culture – the diverse norms and values that enable multiple parties to actualize their preferred form of organization.
Food sovereignty – an approach that put those who produce, distribute, and consume food at the heart of food systems and policies and this in order to not let food systems depend on the demands of markets and corporations.
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This entry deals with the governance of food systems. It exposes the problematic aspect of current global schemes by providing a picture, an interpretation of the context where the “risk of hunger” breeds and emerges, namely a governance network that functions as a...
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Fabianski, C., Suppiah, S. (2022). Governing for Food Security: A Cultural Perspective. In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51812-7_114-1
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