Advancing Food Sovereignty Through Interrogating the Question: What is Food Sovereignty?

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-10-2018

Publication Title

Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics

Volume

31

Issue

5

First page number:

593

Last page number:

604

Abstract

The topic of food sovereignty has received ample attention from philosophers and interdisciplinary scholars, from how to conceptualize the term to how globalization shapes it, and several areas in between. This bounty of research informs us about food sovereignty’s practical dimensions, but the theoretical realm still has lessons to teach us, especially how to develop action-based guides to achieve it. This paper is an exploration in that direction. To have that effect, the author interrogates the question, “what is food sovereignty?”, through asking about its motivations, scale, and the answers that will inform solutions. This process reveals that, despite the differences between conceptions of food sovereignties, there is a pattern at play that concerns their nature. The benefit of gaining an understanding of this pattern is to uncover the necessary elements that each solution will require.

Keywords

Strong food sovereignty; Weak food sovereignty; Philosophy of food

Disciplines

Agricultural and Resource Economics

Language

English


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