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Re-food as an alternative to the dominant food system?
| Resumo: | This chapter seeks to respond the following question: can Re-food—as a non-governmental association designed to help end both hunger and food waste—be considered an alternative to the dominant food system? To answer, it is necessary to: i) frame Re-food in a system of capitalist accumulation (i.e. free markets and free trade), as well as in a context of globalization, a growing process of privatization of the States, growing social inequalities and poverty, exhaustion of natural resources and the downfall of peasant cultures; ii) analyze the concept of alternative and its assumptions; and iii) understand whether Re-food meets the necessary conditions to be designated an alternative or if, on the other hand, it has emerged ‘only’ to respond to some of the challenges produced by the mainstream food system, thus perpetuating the very problems it aims to solve (food poverty/waste). At the methodological level, some qualitative data from the ethnographic work that was carried out in Re-food by the participant observation method are presented. |
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| Autores principais: | Augusto, Fábio Rafael |
| Assunto: | Re-food alternative dominant food system food poverty food waste |
| Ano: | 2022 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | capítulo de livro |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso restrito |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Resumo: | This chapter seeks to respond the following question: can Re-food—as a non-governmental association designed to help end both hunger and food waste—be considered an alternative to the dominant food system? To answer, it is necessary to: i) frame Re-food in a system of capitalist accumulation (i.e. free markets and free trade), as well as in a context of globalization, a growing process of privatization of the States, growing social inequalities and poverty, exhaustion of natural resources and the downfall of peasant cultures; ii) analyze the concept of alternative and its assumptions; and iii) understand whether Re-food meets the necessary conditions to be designated an alternative or if, on the other hand, it has emerged ‘only’ to respond to some of the challenges produced by the mainstream food system, thus perpetuating the very problems it aims to solve (food poverty/waste). At the methodological level, some qualitative data from the ethnographic work that was carried out in Re-food by the participant observation method are presented. |
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