The specter of productivism and food democracy
(2014) Wisconsin Law Review — Vol. 2014, n° 2, p. 199-233 (2014)
Files
1-De-Schutter-Final.pdf
Postprint
Open Access - Adobe PDF
- 529.99 KB
Details
- Authors
- Abstract
- The productivist paradigm we have inherited from fifty years ago was shaped to respond to a very different set of problems than those we are facing today. The resulting dominant food system in rich countries succeeds in doing one big thing: it is well equipped to produce large volumes of commodities for the food-processing industry, which in turn does reasonably well at ensuring a relatively stable availability of cheap calories to the populations. But this has come with huge costs- externalities that have been borne by the collectivity rather than accounted for in the price of food.
- Affiliations
Citations
De Schutter, O. (2014). The specter of productivism and food democracy. Wisconsin Law Review, 2014(2), 199-233. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/192730 (Original work published 2014)