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Regulatory enclosures: small scale women livestock farmers
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Abstract "There are efforts by a variety of social movements and civil society organizations
to encourage the development of alternative agri-food networks that are socially just,
ecological, humane and which ensure food security and food sovereignty. Many activists
focus their critiques on the role of large... view more
"There are efforts by a variety of social movements and civil society organizations
to encourage the development of alternative agri-food networks that are socially just,
ecological, humane and which ensure food security and food sovereignty. Many activists
focus their critiques on the role of large multinational corporations in restructuring and
globalizing the agri-food system. They offer in its place a vision of locally oriented,
small scale ecological farming. Drawing on the gendered experience of small scale
women farmers on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada who are developing local markets for
their farm products and the impact of new Provincial food safety regulations, this paper
argues if such social change initiatives are to be successful, one will need to look at how
food safety regulations accomplish outcomes that have relatively little to do with food
safety but effectively close the possibilities for more ecologically grounded and locally
focused food production and distribution. That is, food safety regulations seem inevitably
to close off to farmers the possibility of economic alternatives to the globalizing agri food
system. There will be 'no alternatives'. Paradoxically, consumer led food and food
security movements can undermine the very changes they wish to see happen." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
food; organic farming; security; agriculture; farmer; small business; woman; agricultural industry; globalization; regulation; Canada; food and luxury products industry
Classification
Special areas of Departmental Policy
Economic Sectors
Rural Sociology
Free Keywords
regulation; small farmers; food safety
Document language
English
Publication Year
2008
City
Münster
Page/Pages
27 p.
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications
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