RESEARCH QUESTION: Which current
tendencies do you consider beneficial or detrimental for the food security of
the poorer groups and for ‘the environment’ in Africa?
Keep in mind the interrelationships between population, food and
environment in the context of Africa.
Additional readings to the ones uploaded below – Course Literature:
Slocum, R., & Cadieux, K. (2015). Notes on the practice of food justice in the U.S.: understanding and confronting trauma and inequity.
Journal of Political Ecology, 22.
Slocum, R., & Cadieux, K. (2015). What does it mean to do food justice? Journal of Political Ecology Vol. 22.
Alkon, A. and J. Agyeman (eds.) (2011) Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class and Sustainability. Cambridge: MIT Press, Chapter 1:
ʺIntroduction: The Food Movement as Polycultureʺ pp.1‑13.
(ACB) African Centre for Biodiversity (2014). Running to Stand Still: Small‑Scale Farmers and the Green Revolution in
Malawi. Melville, South Africa, ACB: vi‑xviii and 1‑25.
Alkon, A. (2014). Food Justice and the Challenge to Neoliberalism. Gastronomica 14(2): 27‑40.
Beuchelt, T.D. and D. Virchow (2012) Food Sovereignty or the Human Right to Adequate Food: Which Concept Serves Better
as International Development Policy for Global Hunger and Poverty Reduction? Agriculture and Human Values, 29:2, pp. 259‑
273.
DuPuis, M. (2007).Angels and Vegetables: A Brief History of Food Advice in America. Gastronimica 7(2): 34‑44.
DuPuis, E. Melanie, et al. (2011) Chapter 13: ʺJust Food?ʺ in A. Alkon and J. Agyeman (eds.) Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class
and Sustainability. Cambridge: MIT Press, pp. 283‑302.
Grey, Sam and Raj Patel (2015) Food Sovereignty as Decolonization: Some Contributions from Indigenous Movements to
Food System and Development Politics, Agriculture and Human Values, 32(3): pp. 431‑444.
McKeon, N. (2015). Food Security Governance: Empowering Communities, Regulating Corporations. Chapter 1: ʺFood Governance: A
Rapid Historical Reviewʺ and Chapter 4: ʺReactions to the Food Price Crisis and the Challenge of Rethinking Global Food
Governance,ʺ pp. 11‑ 30 and 89‑111.
Schiavoni, Christina. (2017). The contested terrain of food sovereignty construction: toward a historical, relational and
interactive approach. The Journal of Peasant Studies 44(1): 1‑32.
Shiva, ʺWomen and the Gendered Politics of Foodʺ; Just Food, Chapter 8
Van Esterik, Penny (1999) Right to Food; Right to Feed; Right to Be Fed. The Intersection of Womenʹs Rights and the Right to
Food, Agriculture and Human Values, 16(2), ppp. 225‑232.
