Just Transition in Food Systems

30/04/2024

Conférence

Vous pourrez y croiser notre collègue Deborah Myaux qui évoquera la thématique de la justice alimentaire.

Conference in English

The manufacturing of food on an industrial scale and its worldwide distribution contribute to pushing the environment beyond its ecological limits. In addition, the system fails to provide basic human needs for all and doesn’t guarantee freedom from exploitation and oppression.

The prevailing paradigm excludes alternatives that focus on other worldviews and value sets, and the integration of individuals currently marginalized by the corporate industry. That is why food systems have become a focus of transition studies that deal with the understanding of long‐term processes of transformative change toward more just societies. Still, a specific focus on the conceptualization of social justice is generally lacking. As such, change processes in food systems risk exacerbating or reproducing existing injustices that marginalize certain groups of people.

This is why it is necessary to investigate alternatives of transition for and in the food system, with close attention to ‘who gets what, when, and how’, to what qualifies as a justice issue and who qualifies as a justice subject, to what justice claims are raised in relation to socio-economic redistribution, cultural-legal recognition, and political representation.

UCSIA wants to explore the issue and learn from field experience of grassroots and professional organizations what is at stake, what needs to be done and how policy and research can contribute.

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