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Jessica Fanzo, (2021). Can fixing dinner fix the planet? John Hopkins University Press, reviewed by Kathleen Kevany
19 Mar 2025 | Review | Contributor(s):
By Kathleen May Kevany
Tasks undertaken at home have influence around the world. Eating patterns that citizens adopt or support have diverse impacts on the planet. What we fix for dinner may well help to fix the planet...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7789/?v=1
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Standards as a commons: Private agri-food standards as governance for the 99 percent
19 Mar 2025 | Review | Contributor(s):
By Jennifer Sumner
Private agri-food standards have emerged in response to the constraints imposed on the role of the state under the influence of neoliberalism. These standards reflect the ongoing ‘value wars’...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7689/?v=1
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GFG - SYNTHESIS - Thinking forward in global food governance
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Michelle Metzger
Global food governance is ever evolving as political leaders become increasingly aware of the complexity and dynamic nature of managing the global food system in a sustainable manner. Calls for...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7681/?v=1
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GFG - "Greening" global food governance
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Jessica Duncan
It has been argued that there are two broad criteria to judge humanity’s success in feeding itself: “(i) the proportion of people whose access to basic nutritional requirements is secure; and (ii)...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7680/?v=1
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GFG - Global food governance in an era of crisis
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Jennifer Clapp, Annette Desmarais, Matias Margulis
There have been multiple and significant changes in the global food landscape when it comes to governance. The 2008 Global Food Crisis heightened attention to and action for food security; this is...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7678/?v=1
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GFG - Global food governance in an era of crisis: Lessons from the United Nations Committee on World Food Security
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Nora McKeon
The increasingly destructive impacts that today’s global food system visits upon local food provision, biodiversity, and the environment have been highlighted by a number of contributors in this...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7679/?v=1
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SFSGEC - Learning from the failures of biofuels governance
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Carol Hunsberger
While many policies designed to increase the use of biofuels were promoted at least in part as a climate change solution, biofuels made from agricultural crops are increasingly seen as part of the...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7675/?v=1
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GFT - Regulating food-based agrofuels: The prospects and challenges of international trade rules
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Matias Margulis
This article considers the potential for strategic and selective use of World Trade Organization (WTO) rules to regulate, and potentially curb, the expansion of food-based agrofuels. Since 2008, a...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7646/?v=1
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Mapping the state of play on the global food landscape
19 Mar 2025 | Essay | Contributor(s):
By Jennifer Clapp, Annette Desmarais, Matias Margulis
The global food landscape is changing rapidly. In 2007–08 food prices soared and remained volatile in the following years, effectively leading to a world food crisis that drove tens of millions of...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7632/?v=1
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SWFS - Governing land and landscapes: Political ecology of enclosures and commons
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Harriet Friedmann
Most of the world’s food is still produced by small farmers, many of whom remain organized though customary land tenure. Customary tenure is a general term for specific cultural ways in which...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7636/?v=1
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Growing With Lady Flower Gardens: Governance in a Land-based Initiative Focused on Building Community, Well-being and Social Equity Through Food
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Ashley M. Roszko, Mary A. Beckie
The local food sector has been gaining strong momentum in the province of Alberta but inclusiveness, social equity, and affordability remain issues of concern. Lady Flower Gardens (LFG) is a...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7482/?v=1
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Mapping Food Policy Groups: Understanding Cross-Sectoral Network Building through Social Network Analysis
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Charles Z Levkoe, Rebecca Schiff, Karen Arnold, Ashley Wilkinson, Karen Kerk
Over the past decades, there has been a rapid expansion in the number of Food Policy Groups (FPG) (including food policy councils, strategies, networks, and informal alliances) operating at...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7478/?v=1
