Zollet S., Colombo L., De Meo P., Marino D., McGreevy S.R., McKeon N., Tarra S. (2021). Towards territorially embedded, equitable and resilient food systems? Insights from grassroots responses to COVID-19 in Italy and the city region of Rome. Sustainability, 01/03/2021, vol. 13, n. 5, p. 1-24.
https://doi.org/10.3390/su13052425
https://doi.org/10.3390/su13052425
Titre : | Towards territorially embedded, equitable and resilient food systems? Insights from grassroots responses to COVID-19 in Italy and the city region of Rome (2021) |
Auteurs : | S. Zollet ; L. Colombo ; P. De Meo ; D. Marino ; S.R. McGreevy ; N. McKeon ; S. Tarra |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | Sustainability (vol. 13, n. 5, March 2021) |
Article en page(s) : | p. 1-24 |
Langues : | Anglais |
Langues du résumé : | Anglais |
Catégories : |
Catégories principales 6.4 - Production Agricole. Système de Production ; 06 - AGRICULTURE. FORÊTS. PÊCHESThésaurus IAMM SYSTEME ALIMENTAIRE ALTERNATIF ; RESILIENCE ; COMMERCE EQUITABLE ; TERRITOIRE ; COVID-19 ; POLITIQUE ALIMENTAIRE ; AGRICULTURE BIOLOGIQUE ; SECURITE ALIMENTAIRE ; PETITE EXPLOITATION AGRICOLE ; SYSTEME AGROALIMENTAIRE ; CHAINE D'APPROVISIONNEMENT ; SYSTEME DE PRODUCTION LOCALISE ; AGROECOLOGIE ; ITALIE |
Résumé : | The negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have further exposed and exacerbated the structural weaknesses and inequalities embedded in the global industrial agri-food system. While the mainstream narrative continues to emphasise the importance of ensuring the uninterrupted functioning of global supply chains to counter COVID-related disruptions, the pandemic has also highlighted the resilience of small-scale, sustainable family farming and of spatially and socially embedded food systems. Based on a quantitative and qualitative analysis of three surveys, this study examines organic and agroecological farmers responses to the first COVID-related lockdown (MarchMay 2020) in Italy, as well as the responses of grassroots alternative food networks (AFN) in the city region of Rome. The results show how local grassroots action played a significant role in ensuring food access, provisioning, and distribution, often in the face of delayed or insufficient action of mainstream food system actors and institutions. These grassroots responses identify opportunities and barriers for agri-food system transformation away from neoliberal, market-based interventions and towards policies that support food sovereignty and democracy in the context of localised, agroecology-based and more resilient agri-food systems. |
Cote : | En ligne |
URL / DOI : | https://doi.org/10.3390/su13052425 |