The political economy of food systems reform
(2017) European Review of Agricultural Economics — Vol. 44, n° 4, p. 705-731 (2017)
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- Modern food systems as they have developed over the past half-century are unsustainable: their health and environmental impacts, as well as their failure to reduce rural poverty in developing countries and the power imbalances in food chains, are a concern to a growing number of activists. However, the mainstream system is highly path-dependent, and resistant to reform. Change can be expected neither from government action, nor from business initiatives alone, and grassroots innovations led by ordinary people have a limited impact. Only by connecting these different pathways for reform by food democracy can lasting food systems reform be achieved.
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De Schutter, O. (2017). The political economy of food systems reform. European Review of Agricultural Economics, 44(4), 705-731. https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbx009 (Original work published 2017)