Regimes and Resilience in the Modern Global Food System
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Much public discourse surrounding the modern global food system operates on the assumption of the primary agency of individual consumers in ensuring an equitable and sustainable food supply. However, this approach fails to account for the larger structural forces of the system which frame the limits of how we interact with and affect our food system. Taking a closer look at the environmental, political, and economic forces that have collectively shaped historical food regimes will reveal the deeper structural patterns that currently determine how we produce, distribute, and consume food around the world. Due to the underlying globalized structural processes of increasing distance and standardization, we have become highly disembedded from our food system and must look for clues from past periods of transition between food regimes to better position ourselves to work towards a global restructuring of, and human reembedding in, the modern global food system.
Regimes and Resilience in the Modern Global Food System
Science Center 151
Much public discourse surrounding the modern global food system operates on the assumption of the primary agency of individual consumers in ensuring an equitable and sustainable food supply. However, this approach fails to account for the larger structural forces of the system which frame the limits of how we interact with and affect our food system. Taking a closer look at the environmental, political, and economic forces that have collectively shaped historical food regimes will reveal the deeper structural patterns that currently determine how we produce, distribute, and consume food around the world. Due to the underlying globalized structural processes of increasing distance and standardization, we have become highly disembedded from our food system and must look for clues from past periods of transition between food regimes to better position ourselves to work towards a global restructuring of, and human reembedding in, the modern global food system.