Strengthening resilience in response to COVID-19: a call to integrate social reproduction in sustainable food systems
Fiorella Picchioni, June Y. T. Po, Lora Forsythe
2021Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d études du développement16 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF
Abstract
COVID-19 has revealed new tensions and exacerbated old fragilities in global food systems, characterised by the systemic socio-economic reliance on invisible, unpaid and devalued work. We argue that, in the same way environmental concerns have become integral to the Sustainable Food Systems agenda, a social reproduction approach, informed by geographies of care, are essential for a critical analysis and the search for alternatives. By linking analytical concepts to examples from social movements, the commentary calls for a paradigm shift and a new research agenda involving these critical perspectives on resilient and sustainable food systems.
Topics & Concepts
ReproductionResilience (materials science)Food systemsCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Food insecuritySocial reproductionPsychological resilienceSustainabilityEnvironmental ethicsWork (physics)SociologyFood securityPolitical scienceSocial sciencePsychologyEcologySocial psychologySocial capitalBiologyMedicineDiseaseAgricultureMechanical engineeringPhilosophyPathologyPhysicsInfectious disease (medical specialty)EngineeringThermodynamicsAgriculture, Land Use, Rural DevelopmentOrganic Food and AgricultureFood Waste Reduction and Sustainability