Jessica Fanzo, (2021). Can fixing dinner fix the planet? John Hopkins University Press, reviewed by Kathleen Kevany

2025-03-19 22:13:05 | Review | Contributor(s): Kathleen May Kevany | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i3.595

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 when lower emission foods, reduced waste, enhanced distribution, and equality are emphasized....

Standards as a commons: Private agri-food standards as governance for the 99 percent

2025-03-19 22:03:57 | Review | Contributor(s): Jennifer Sumner | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.30

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’ between the money code of value and the life code of value (McMurtry 2002). While some private...

GFG - SYNTHESIS - Thinking forward in global food governance

2025-03-19 22:03:56 | Article | Contributor(s): Michelle Metzger | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.120

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 reform of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in the early 2000s...

SFSGEC - Learning from the failures of biofuels governance

2025-03-19 22:03:55 | Article | Contributor(s): Carol Hunsberger | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.102

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 problem when considering global environmental change. Research on the greenhouse gas emissions...

GFG - Global food governance in an era of crisis

2025-03-19 22:03:55 | Article | Contributor(s): Jennifer Clapp, Annette Desmarais, Matias Margulis | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.81

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 reflected in the expanding food security agenda across the United Nations system, the World Bank...

GFG - Global food governance in an era of crisis: Lessons from the United Nations Committee on World Food Security

2025-03-19 22:03:55 | Article | Contributor(s): Nora McKeon | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.134

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 special issue. Viewed through a global governance lens, public responsibility has been...

GFG - "Greening" global food governance

2025-03-19 22:03:55 | Article | Contributor(s): Jessica Duncan | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.104

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) the extent to which global food production is sustainable” (Daily et al., 1998, p. 1291)....

GFT - Regulating food-based agrofuels: The prospects and challenges of international trade rules

2025-03-19 22:03:51 | Article | Contributor(s): Matias Margulis | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.82

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 global agrofuel complex has emerged that is characterized by government-led mandates and...

Mapping the state of play on the global food landscape

2025-03-19 22:03:49 | Essay | Contributor(s): Jennifer Clapp, Annette Desmarais, Matias Margulis | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.103

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 people into poverty and hunger. A phenomenal increase in large-scale farmland acquisitions in...

SWFS - Governing land and landscapes: Political ecology of enclosures and commons

2025-03-19 22:03:49 | Article | Contributor(s): Harriet Friedmann | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.95

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 farmers embedded in ecological contexts allocate rights and obligations to use land, including...

Growing With Lady Flower Gardens: Governance in a Land-based Initiative Focused on Building Community, Well-being and Social Equity Through Food

2025-03-19 22:03:18 | Article | Contributor(s): Ashley M. Roszko, Mary A. Beckie | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i2.441

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 community-based initiative that is working to address these issues. Established in 2012 on private land...

Mapping Food Policy Groups: Understanding Cross-Sectoral Network Building through Social Network Analysis

2025-03-19 22:03:17 | Article | Contributor(s): Charles Z Levkoe, Rebecca Schiff, Karen Arnold, Ashley Wilkinson, Karen Kerk | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i2.443

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 municipal and regional levels across North America. FPGs are typically established with the intent of...