Transforming land for sustainable food: Emerging contests to property regimes in the Global North DOI Creative Commons
Adam Calo, Sarah Ruth Sippel,

Sylvia Kay

et al.

Elementa Science of the Anthropocene, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 12(1)

Published: Jan. 1, 2024

Land relations—property, access, tenure, landscape—are a central underlying driver of the material form food systems, from farm to distribution. Despite their fluidity and historical geographical diversity, land relations have tendency become normalized through law, custom, practice. In particular, exclusionary private “ownership model” property has come be deeply entrenched in legal systems worldwide, particularly Global North. The power this normalization is evidenced, for example, how research practice aimed at reshaping grassroots movement, policy-level, or biophysical perspectives often omit role bringing about agricultural sustainability agrarian change. Understanding as static thus potentially constrains directs kinds sustainable agriculture transformations that can take place. Entrenched norms drastically limit urgent possibilities system transformation. However, confluence political ecological conflagrations may placing back on agenda forefront people’s minds. moment when hegemonic understandings also appear absurd paper thin, we describe counter movements bubbling up contest status quo nexus within core. This article introduces special feature centering transformations. collection provides new governance (property relations, landscape policy) mediates potential goes beyond understanding dynamics ask reformed create favorable conditions more just emerge. We highlight 5 empirical domains transforming North: legislating reform, quasi-market reforms, remaking agendas, Indigenous claims settler state, using municipal unlock land. Each domain act non-reformist reform but each carries its own drawbacks limitations. Nevertheless, if our argument holds there will no transformation without parallel remake it time start organizing concerted effort bespoke contexts.

Language: Английский

Transforming land for sustainable food: Emerging contests to property regimes in the Global North DOI Creative Commons
Adam Calo, Sarah Ruth Sippel,

Sylvia Kay

et al.

Elementa Science of the Anthropocene, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 12(1)

Published: Jan. 1, 2024

Land relations—property, access, tenure, landscape—are a central underlying driver of the material form food systems, from farm to distribution. Despite their fluidity and historical geographical diversity, land relations have tendency become normalized through law, custom, practice. In particular, exclusionary private “ownership model” property has come be deeply entrenched in legal systems worldwide, particularly Global North. The power this normalization is evidenced, for example, how research practice aimed at reshaping grassroots movement, policy-level, or biophysical perspectives often omit role bringing about agricultural sustainability agrarian change. Understanding as static thus potentially constrains directs kinds sustainable agriculture transformations that can take place. Entrenched norms drastically limit urgent possibilities system transformation. However, confluence political ecological conflagrations may placing back on agenda forefront people’s minds. moment when hegemonic understandings also appear absurd paper thin, we describe counter movements bubbling up contest status quo nexus within core. This article introduces special feature centering transformations. collection provides new governance (property relations, landscape policy) mediates potential goes beyond understanding dynamics ask reformed create favorable conditions more just emerge. We highlight 5 empirical domains transforming North: legislating reform, quasi-market reforms, remaking agendas, Indigenous claims settler state, using municipal unlock land. Each domain act non-reformist reform but each carries its own drawbacks limitations. Nevertheless, if our argument holds there will no transformation without parallel remake it time start organizing concerted effort bespoke contexts.

Language: Английский

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