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From hunger to food insecurity: technocracy and sustainability
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This paper is an anthropological contribution to a theoretical, conceptual, and
methodological discussion of the concepts of food (in)security. The decision
to focus on these concepts is related to their relationship with sustainability
issues and also to the fact that they are of fundamental importance in the
evaluation of the nutritional status and food situation of different individuals
and populations. The fact that the notions of food (in)security are at present
indispensable to conduct research on issues such as adequate food, satisfaction,
or deprivation of food, also justifies the attention devoted to it in this text.
Moreover, the circumstance that the concepts of food (in)security give rise to
relevant studies, arguments, and narratives that are used by different actors
(intergovernmental structures, governments, industry, farmers, populations…),
for purposes not always convergent, is another reason to pay attention
to this topic. Taking also into account that food (in)security assessments
mostly produced by experts are at the origin of programmes and measures
through which public policies are implemented, the attention to these concepts
is justified even more. Key concepts in the construction of discourses on food
scarcity, production, and quality, which are drawn up by the United Nations,
states, and other actors, are appropriated by different entities and can be used
in different ways. They may appear, for example, to support political positions
about forms of agriculture that are mainly focused on the quantity of foods
produced and on intensive and extensive forms of agricultural production
than on the protection of small farmers. These concepts are not neutral,
neither in their uses nor in the way in which they are conceptualized, thus
requiring continuous scrutiny.
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Food security Sustainability
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Calado, V. H. (2018). From hunger to food insecurity: technocracy and sustainability. In Delicado, A., Domingos, N., Sousa, L. de (Eds.), Changing societies: legacies and challenges. Vol. 3. The diverse worlds of sustainability, pp. 317-340. Lisbon: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais. ISBN
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Imprensa de Ciências Sociais