In this blog, originally published in the Rooted Magazine, authors Jessica Milgroom and Josh Brem-Wilson reflect on how communities and cultures have developed informal policies that are based on a shared set of values, which play …
Green Deal, farmers’ protests: we need new narratives to support food system transformation
In this statement, activist scholars show how the European Union’s current legislative response to waves of farmer protests across Europe is failing both farmers and society, in Europe and elsewhere. They identify the toxic narratives …
Participation is not the answer to development-forced displacement and resettlement
Participation continues to be heralded as undeniably positive. Participation is a way to involve people in decision making. It is imbued with ideas of democracy, people’s power, and challenging top-down governance. Yet, in practice, rather …
Felipe, las chinampas and policies for agroecology in Mexico City
Felipe is passionate about cleaning the water around his ‘chinampa’, his small plot of land surrounded by canals, as a first step to recovering life in the agroecosystem. The chinampas were floating beds made like …
Open Letters to policy makers and to the European Commission : No new science-policy interface for food systems
Some of the main players of the UNFSS science group promote the establishment of a new science-policy interface for food systems. Academics following the UN Food Systems Summit have contested this proposal that would bypass …
Power to the Elites? Multistakeholderism and the UN Food Systems Summit
Multistakeholder processes are increasingly visible across food systems governance, and are at the heart of how the UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) is organized. But what is multistakeholder governance? Whose interests does this form of …
No Time for Justice?! – Food Policy and Emergency Thinking in the Brexit Moment
Imagine a process in which food and farming policies were designed with social justice as the central tenet. What would such a process look like? Whose voices would be heard, and whose interests would be …
Reading for Food Justice
This project involved critically analyzing the policy documents and statements that have been published by different organisations in post-brexit Britain to read between the lines and help understand the power and politics behind these positions. …
Bringing Agroecology into the UK Agriculture Bill
Agroecological approaches to agriculture improve rural livelihoods, regenerate ecologies and increase the resiliency of communities, while providing healthy and sustainable food. Policy support for agroecology in the UK has been piecemeal and many policies undermine …