Rural-urban relations in times of COVID-19
We are discussing rural-urban relations in the era of COVID-19 on the Rural Sociology blog! Share your reflections...
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Inclusion and diversity amidst convergence
https://youtu.be/bEkGOUJmszE In this short video lecture, Jessica Duncan reflects on how the global food sovereignty movement manages the contradictory goals of inclusion and diversity and why categories – like women and...
Constituencies in 500 words
Constituencies Constituencies are broadly defined as groups of people with shared interests (Oxford English Dictionary 2017). In the global food sovereignty movement (GFSM), the concept has been used to identify and...
Scholar-activists in an expanding European food sovereignty movement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXr8Nnl-jPg A short video summary of our article that analyzes the roles, relations, and positions of scholar-activists in the European food sovereignty movement. In doing so, we document, make visible and...
Towards a Common Food Policy for the EU
IPES-Food has just released a report arguing for a Common Food Policy for the European Union:. The report proposes a "direction of travel for the whole food system, bringing together the...
Evaluation of the Civil Society Mechanism
It has been a while since I have posted on this site, but things are about to change. Last night I was on a panel for a PhD course called “Having...
Call for papers: Analytical Approaches to Post-Exceptionalism in Food and Agricultural Governance
Join us at the 2019 General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research in Wrocław, Poland. Due to the sensitive nature of the associated public goods (food safety, health, environmental...
Contested Boundaries in Food and Agricultural Governance
The deadline for all Panel and Paper submissions for the 2018 European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) conference in Hamburg is 15 February. The ECPR Food Policy and Governance Research Network...
Peasants negotiating a global policy space
Interface, a journal about social movements, has published a new review of Ingeborg Gaarde's book Peasants negotiating a global policy space: La Vía Campesina in the Committee on World Food Security (Routledge 2017). ...