Policy pathways to sustainable food systems

Abstract

Over the last two decades, there has been an increasing focus on unsustainable practices and structures in the current food system. Modern farming practices are associated with a number of negative environmental impacts such as water pollution, threats to biodiversity, emission of greenhouse gasses, and declining soil health. The memories of the food crises a decade ago combined with an increasing world population and at the same a growing obesity crisis has resulted in food security has becoming a major issue in transnational as well as domestic debates. It is increasingly realised that the food system has to be transformed to applying more sustainable production methods and to encourage change in consumption practices. Further, urban centres have become aware of the challenges in building sustainable local food systems. The papers in this panel focus on pathways to more sustainable food systems by analysing policy measures and domestic and transnational policy processes unfolding in different settings.

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Making Food Democracy from the Local Up	View Paper Details
What drives farmer’s revolt against a sustainable EU food system? Insights from the contestation over the EU Nature Protection Law	View Paper Details
How did soil health become a policy problem? Unearthing the crisis discourse and institutionalisation of soil health in EU policy making	View Paper Details
European implications on national policy: An investigation of how EU climate policy impacts agricultural policy	View Paper Details
Past winds of change: a historical analysis of directional branching points in post-war agricultural policy in The Netherlands and Norway (1945-2020)	View Paper Details