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Noelia Parajuá (Universitat de Barcelona), Food regimes at a national scale: a conceptual map

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Annex: Summary food regimes review

Abstract

Food regimes are a prominent approach to investigate the role of agriculture and food in global capitalism, being broadly used in agrarian change (Bernstein, 2016; Buttel, 2001) and agrofood studies (Magnan, 2012). A move towards problematizing the spatiality of food regimes has been recently identified among food regimes scholars (Moran et al., 1996; Schermer, 2015; Otero, 2016; Rioux, 2018; Jakobsen, 2021; Mukahhal et al., 2022) due to the insufficient attention to the national and regional variability in the experience of food regimes. At the same time, there is an emerging body of studies which link food regimes to national scenarios, thus evidencing its utility for this scale of analysis.

In this chapter (future article), we aim to step forward in tackling this issue by proposing a conceptual map of the main aspects involved in the unfolding of food regimes at a national scale, with the final goal to advance the understanding of agri-food systems functioning. To this end, we conducted a literature review in order to grasp the aspects that such articles -that is, those that use food regimes lens at a national level- address. We identified 17 elements and also 5 connections among them.

Drawing on such results, and inspired by a systems approach (Hawkes & Parsons, 2019), we develop our conceptual map (see below):

This conceptual map is a first approach in mapping food regimes elements and connections at a country level. Yet, we acknowledge that further research needs to be done in order to provide a deeper insight of these elements and the connections between them, including tools and methods that facilitate empirical evidence. In addition, we acknowledge the big complexity of agri-food functioning, and thus, the set of elements and connection we identified may be further widened and enriched with many more.

We hope this work contributes to advance food regimes development. Particularly, the conceptual map we propose steps forward in facing two of the problems which have been risen among food regimes scholars so far: its scale and its level of abstraction. Besides, we hope this conceptual map facilitates research in agrarian change, but also in other fields, such as development studies and food policy.

Hora: 14:30 hores
Lloc: Híbrid. Aula 2019 (Edifici 696), Facultat d'Economia i Empresa i on line en aquest enllaç.