Abstract
Food provision in contemporary societies is transforming due to challenges of globalization, sustainability and equity. The interactions between civil society organizations, governments, the food industry, consumers and producers constitute dynamic fields of environmental change in global food provision. Promoting equitable and sustainable food provision in a globalizing world requires well-informed insights in these social dynamics involved because global food governance involves a complex array of different public and private actors. Today we are faced with a fragmented, differentiated, hybrid and contested constellation of global food governance arrangements and therefore we need a network rather than a formalized perspective on food governance. Such a network perspective can serve as the start of a new research agenda for the study of global sustainable food governance.
Highlights
Food provision in contemporary societies is transforming due to challenges of globalization, sustainability and equity
Developing an agenda on addressing food sustainability and food security requires an in-depth understanding of these dynamics and in particular the three core dimensions that characterize them: globalization, sustainability and equity
Most obvious is the continuous increase in international food trade [1] and most food is still consumed in the country where it is produced, many people live in countries that are net-food importing [2]
Summary
Food provision in contemporary societies is transforming due to challenges of globalization, sustainability and equity. Food is a social and highly contested phenomenon in several respects, in particular on sustainability and food security. Addressing these challenges means approaching food production not in isolation but as embedded in the wider and transforming complex of activities that comprises contemporary food provision.
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