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Strengthening resilience in response to COVID-19: A call to integrate social reproduction in sustainable food systems

Strengthening resilience in response to COVID-19: A call to integrate social reproduction in sustainable food systems

Picchioni, Fiorella ORCID: 0000-0002-3456-386X, Po, June ORCID: 0000-0001-6124-8235 and Forsythe, Lora ORCID: 0000-0001-9931-4453 (2021) Strengthening resilience in response to COVID-19: A call to integrate social reproduction in sustainable food systems. Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement, 42 (1-2). pp. 28-36. ISSN 0225-5189 (Print), 2158-9100 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2020.1858761)

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Abstract

COVID-19 has revealed new tensions and exacerbated old fragilities in global food systems, characterised by the systemic socio-economic reliance on invisible, unpaid and devalued work. We argue that, in the same way environmental concerns have become integral to the Sustainable Food Systems agenda, a social reproduction approach, informed by geographies of care, are essential for a critical analysis and the search for alternatives. By linking analytical concepts to examples from social movements, the commentary calls for a paradigm shift and a new research agenda involving these critical perspectives on resilient and sustainable food systems.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Food systems; social reproduction; geographies of care; food activism; COVID-19
Subjects: S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group: Faculty of Engineering & Science
Faculty of Engineering & Science > Natural Resources Institute
Faculty of Engineering & Science > Natural Resources Institute > Food & Markets Department
Faculty of Engineering & Science > Natural Resources Institute > Livelihoods & Institutions Department
Last Modified: 26 Jul 2022 01:38
URI: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/30464

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