NDLI: Food justice or food sovereignty? Understanding the rise of urban food movements in the USA

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Author	Clendenning, Jessica Dressler, Wolfram H. Richards, Carol
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	As world food and fuel prices threaten expanding urban populations, there is greater need for the urban poor to have access and claims over how and where food is produced and distributed. This is especially the case in marginalized urban settings where high proportions of the population are food insecure. The global movement for food sovereignty has been one attempt to reclaim rights and participation in the food system and challenge corporate food regimes. However, given its origins from the peasant farmers' movement, La Via Campesina, food sovereignty is often considered a rural issue when increasingly its demands for fair food systems are urban in nature. Through interviews with scholars, urban food activists, non-governmental and grassroots organizations in Oakland and New Orleans in the United States of America, we examine the extent to which food sovereignty has become embedded as a concept, strategy and practice. We consider food sovereignty alongside other dominant US social movements such as food justice, and find that while many organizations do not use the language of food sovereignty explicitly, the motives behind urban food activism are similar across movements as local actors draw on elements of each in practice. Overall, however, because of the different histories, geographic contexts, and relations to state and capital, food justice and food sovereignty differ as strategies and approaches. We conclude that the US urban food sovereignty movement is limited by neoliberal structural contexts that dampen its approach and radical framework. Similarly, we see restrictions on urban food justice movements that are also operating within a broader framework of market neoliberalism. However, we find that food justice was reported as an approach more aligned with the socio-historical context in both cities, due to its origins in broader class and race struggles.
Starting Page	165
Ending Page	177
Page Count	13
File Format	PDF
ISSN	0889048X
Journal	Agriculture and Human Values
Volume Number	33
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15728366
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-07-14
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Urban agriculture Food sovereignty Food justice Social movements Food security Food regimes Ethics Agricultural Economics Veterinary Medicine History Evolutionary Biology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Agronomy and Crop Science

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