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Agrifood Transitions in the Anthropocene
Agrifood Transitions in the Anthropocene
Abstract Submissions Closed
Saturday, 27 February 2021: 09:00-10:30
Location:
RC40 Sociology of Agriculture and Food (host committee)
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
The greatest challenges of the 21st Century are linked to the recognition that we are now living in an new epoch – the Anthropocene. The human footprint on the planet can no longer be denied and one of the greatest human innovations – agriculture – is increasingly recognized as a leading contributor to climate change. The food, energy and financial crises of 2007-2008 triggered a re-evaluation of the sustainability of the global agrifood system. The climate impacts of the Anthropocene make it imperative that we change the way food is produced, distributed, and consumed. There is consensus that we need to feed a predicted 9 billion people by 2050, but at the same time reduce environmental externalities and inequalities, and foster more democratic food systems. Within the recent debates around the conditions of living in the Anthropocene, the problem as well as the solutions are highly contested. We invite papers that engage this problematic through studies of transitions, societal transformations, and institutional change processes around the world. Topics may include (but are not limited to): “feeding a sustainable diet”, “the food-fuel-fiber-water nexus”, “surviving the Anthropocene”, “intermediation and adaptation of agrifood strategies in the Anthropocene”, “sustainable intensification and agroecology transition pathways”, “agrifood SDGs in the Anthropocene”, “agrifood imaginaries of the Anthropocene” and “agrifood policies of and for the Anthropocene”. This will be a South-South session – with a sister session at the IRSA meeting in Cairns, Australia – and the presented papers will be published in an edited book.
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