Abstract
ABSTRACT Discussions about just renewable energy transition tend to focus on helping workers in the energy sector and on creating decent and green jobs. However, given the close interconnections between climate change, inequality, energy transition and the agrifood sector, this article argues that the conceptualisation of just energy transition should be extended to “just energy-agrifood transition”, such that not only principles pertaining to energy justice but also to agrarian justice are considered in a comprehensive manner. From a political ecology and critical political economy perspective, and by drawing on examples from Southeast Asia, the article additionally proposes broad policy guidelines to help advance just energy-agrifood transition. This includes the promotion of universal access to energy and food, technical solutions embedded with progressive socio-economic goals, measures to address negative socio-environmental consequences of food-energy transitions, more egalitarian distribution of green jobs and productive resources, and ground-up approaches to socio-ecologically sustainable agrifood systems.
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