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Restoring Food System Resilience in a Turbulent World: Supply Chain Actors' Shared Responsibility Open
Ecological and economic crises increasingly affect the long‐term resilience of the food supply chain. This qualitative study draws on semistructured interviews and public evidence to analyse the perspectives of British supply chain actors.…
View article: Transforming provisioning systems to enable 1.5° lifestyles in Europe? Expert and stakeholder views on overcoming structural barriers
Transforming provisioning systems to enable 1.5° lifestyles in Europe? Expert and stakeholder views on overcoming structural barriers Open
This article explores the urgent need for transformative change toward provisioning systems that align with staying as close as possible to the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 °C limit for climate change. Despite historical awareness of the need for…
Where the wild things are: How urban foraging and food forests can contribute to sustainable cities in the Global North Open
Humanity is faced with interacting socio-environmental challenges such as securing food while the climate changes and biodiversity declines. These global crises are partly caused by major land-use change arising from deforestation and agri…
View article: Barriers and enablers of 1.5° lifestyles: Shallow and deep structural factors shaping the potential for sustainable consumption
Barriers and enablers of 1.5° lifestyles: Shallow and deep structural factors shaping the potential for sustainable consumption Open
Introduction Transforming consumption and lifestyles toward sustainability cannot be achieved by individual behavior change alone but requires changes in the structures in which this behavior is embedded. However, “structure” is a blurry c…
Evolving antinomies of culinary practice: Britain 1968-2016 Open
This paper examines continuity and change in the bases of recommendations about dishes to prepare and serve in the household in Britain between 1968 and 2016. Employing a content analysis of recipes in widely circulating women’s magazines,…
View article: Building back normal? An investigation of practice changes in the charitable and on-the-go food provision sectors through COVID-19
Building back normal? An investigation of practice changes in the charitable and on-the-go food provision sectors through COVID-19 Open
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about debates on rethinking food and other socio-technical systems. While swiftly re-establishing normality has understandable appeal in a crisis, the landscape-level changes during the pandemic also hold …
42. Intensive animal agriculture, land-use and biological conservation: converging demands of justice Open
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Food that Matters: Boundary Work and the Case for Vegan Food Practices Open
Meat and, less so, dairy are contested for their significant ethical and social‐ecological impacts. Abjuring animal products, veganism is conventionally treated as a dietary ideology related to consumer identities. Drawing upon practice an…
Overcoming ‘speciesism’: how to include other living beings Open
In this contribution, Anna Wienhues and Steffen Hirth use theoretical considerations from philosophy and sociology to explore the ways in which ‘the nonhuman’ is – or is not – taken into account. They argue that academics - and society as …