Regionalizing Food Security? Imperatives, Intersections and Contestations in a Post-9/11 World

Autor/in	Hinrichs, C. Clare
Titel	Regionalizing Food Security? Imperatives, Intersections and Contestations in a Post-9/11 World
Quelle	In: Journal of Rural Studies, 29 (2013) 2, S.7-18 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0743-0167
DOI	10.1016/j.jrurstud.2012.09.003
Schlagwörter	Food; Food Standards; Comparative Analysis; Global Approach; Risk; Terrorism; Corporations; Organizations (Groups); Federal Programs; Agricultural Production; Sustainable Development; Public Policy; Policy Analysis; Environmental Influences; Rural Environment; Safety; Regional Cooperation; Regional Planning; Regional Programs; Cooperative Planning; National Security + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lebensmittel; Lebensmittelgesetz; Globales Denken; Risiko; Terrorismus; Unternehmen; Agriculture; Production; Landwirtschaft; Produktion; Agrarproduktion; Landwirtschaftliche Produktion; Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Öffentliche Ordnung; Politikfeldanalyse; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Ländliches Milieu; Sicherheit; Regionale Zusammenarbeit; Regionalplanung; Regional program; Regional programme; Regionalprogramm; National territory; Security; Staatsgebiet
Abstract	In the early 21st century, food security has become an urgent public concern, arguably more entangled with social, political and environmental problems at multiple scales now than in the past. This paper examines approaches to food system change emphasizing regionalization, rather than either localization or globalization, to consider framings of food security. An enlarged food security risk frame--one that starts with food safety crises and the threat of agrifood terrorism but also recognizes new, more diffuse threats to food availability likely with global environmental change, provides common ground now for diverse institutional interest in regional food systems models. Combining discursive approaches to food security with territorial and relational conceptualizations of the region and regionalization, the paper develops a comparative analysis of three emerging regionalization initiatives in the United States: 1) work by the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (a civil society organization); 2) the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food initiative; and 3) the Walmart Corporation's Heritage Agriculture initiative. It finds that institutions with markedly different histories, interests and power can align with a widening, ascendant food security risk frame. However, their approaches to regionalization reflect varying combinations of territorial and relational priorities, and suggest uneven implications for other food security concerns, such as community and food access. (As Provided).
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