ABSTRACT
This Handbook provides the first comprehensive review and synthesis of knowledge and new thinking on how food and food systems can be thought, interpreted and practiced around the old/new paradigms of commons and commoning. The overall aim is to investigate the multiple constraints that occur within and sustain the dominant food and nutrition regime and to explore how it can change when different elements of the current food systems are explored and re-imagined from a commons perspective.
The book sparks the debate on food as a commons between and within disciplines, with particular attention to spaces of resistance (food sovereignty, de-growth, open knowledge, transition town, occupations, bottom-up social innovations) and organizational scales (local food, national policies, South–South collaborations, international governance and multi-national agreements). Overall, it shows the consequences of a shift to the alternative paradigm of food as a commons in terms of food, the planet and living beings.
Chapters 1 and 24 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|2 pages
Rebranding food and alternative narratives of transition
chapter 2|17 pages
The idea of food as a commons
part II|2 pages
Exploring the multiple dimensions of food
part III|2 pages
Food-related elements considered as commons
chapter 12|18 pages
Scientific knowledge of food and agriculture in public institutions
chapter 15|18 pages
Water, food and climate commoning in South African cities
part IV|2 pages
Commoning from below: Current examples of commons-based food systems
chapter 16|15 pages
The ‘Campesino a Campesino’ Agroecology Movement in Cuba
chapter 17|15 pages
The commoning of food governance in Canada
chapter 18|15 pages
Food surplus as charitable provision
chapter 19|15 pages
Community-building through food self-provisioning in central and eastern Europe
part V|2 pages
Dialogue of alternative narratives of transition
chapter 22|14 pages
The centrality of food for social emancipation
part VI|2 pages
Conclusions