Transition Towards a Food Commons Regime: Re-Commoning Food to Crowd-Feed the World

Main fault lines of the industrial food system are grounded in the absolute commodification of food. Using the food regime theory, we present a transition pathway to a food commons regime whose primacy rests in human needs and valuation of different food dimensions, what opposes to corporate mono-dimensional valuation of food as a commodity. To crowdsource this transition, food sovereignty movements and alternative food networks need to knit together a food web capable of confronting the industrial food system. This ongoing transition will be steered by a tricentric governance system (civic collective actions, partner states and social enterprises) that enables access through a multiplicity of open structures and sustainable peer-to-peer practices aimed at sharing, co-producing and trading food and knowledge. Shifting the dominant discourse from the private sphere to the commons arena will open up a new world of economic, political and societal innovations, not least the Universal Food Coverage.