Autori: Sherwood, Stephen , Paredes, Myriam , Gross, Joan , Hammer, Micaela
Titolo: The Future of Sustainability as a Product of the Present: Lessons from Modern Food in Ecuador
Periodico: Rivista di studi sulla sostenibilità
Anno: 2014 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 83 - Pagina finale: 103

Drawing on historical research in the northern highlands of Ecuador, the authors summarize how 75 years of state-supported agricultural modernization and subsequent food policies have led to diverse, wide-scale socio-environmental decline. Despite this global trend, they find considerable heterogeneity in familylevel farming and food practices, with highly diverse and important implications for human health, economy and the environment. Following a study of ‘positive deviance’, they argue that certain production-consumption patterns are more sustainable than others, representing a time-proven, yet largely neglected resource for policy reform. Nevertheless, Ecuador’s investment in modern food poses formidable institutional challenges to change, while sparking increasingly influential social counter-movements.


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SICI: 2239-1959(2014)2<83:TFOSAA>2.0.ZU;2-C
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