Autore
McKeon, Nora

Titolo
Cibo
Periodico
Parolechiave
Anno: 2017 - Volume: 58 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 3 - Pagina finale: 24

The author provides an overall context for this issue by discussing howfood systems are organized and governed today. Food is a fundamentalhuman right and a factor of connectedness and social identity, yet the requirements of capital accumulation have disconnected it from its socialand productive relations and transformed it into a commodity 'from nowhere'. Transnational agrifood corporations have consolidated their control of global supply chains with the support of neoliberal public policieswith negative impacts on the well-being both of the planet and of its inhabitants. Confronting the corporate food regime is an increasingly networked movement of small-scale producers and territorial food systemsthat account for over 70% of the food consumed world-wide and havegained space in global governance in the context of the UN Committee onWorld Food Security. The article closes by reviewing the contents of thethree sections of the publication and synthesizing the insights that emergeregarding 'where to next?'



SICI: 1122-5300(2017)58:2<3:C>2.0.ZU;2-D
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