Resisting the vineyard invasion: Anti-pesticide movements as a vehicle for territorial food democracy and just sustainability transitions
Resisting the vineyard invasion: Anti-pesticide movements as a vehicle for territorial food democracy and just sustainability transitions
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抵制葡萄园入侵：反农药运动作为领土粮食民主和公正可持续转型的工具
DOI：
10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.06.020
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
5.1
通讯作者：
K. L. Maharjan
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作者：
Simona Zollet;K. L. Maharjan
迄今为止，学术文献探讨了粮食民主和公民参与农业粮食系统治理，主要与农业粮食系统的“粮食”端有关，而且主要是在城市环境中。我们认为，这种关注可以有效地扩展到农业生产和农村地区发生的更广泛的领土进程。在这项研究中，我们研究了草根运动的发展，要求对农业农药的使用进行更严格的市政监管，并支持更可持续和本地化的农业食品系统。该研究地点位于意大利阿尔卑斯山东北部，近年来以集约化农业的蔓延为特点，特别是由于葡萄园的扩张。我们的概念框架汇集了从地域角度来看的关于粮食民主和可持续转型的文献。我们利用这个框架来研究民间社会组织和替代食品网络在城市和地区农业食品系统治理中所发挥的作用。结果表明，基层反农药动员在改革城市农药法规和减缓全省集约化农业蔓延方面发挥了关键作用。我们还提请注意活动人士为获得公众舆论和地方管理者的支持而使用的框架。最后，我们讨论了不同形式的粮食民主进程在促进公正可持续转型领土愿景的出现方面所发挥的作用。
Academic literature has so far explored food democracy and citizen participation in agri-food system governance mainly in relation to the ‘food’ end of agri-food systems, and primarily in urban contexts. We argue that this focus can be usefully extended to agricultural production and to wider territorial processes occurring in rural areas. In this study, we examine the development of a grassroots movement demanding stricter municipal regulation of agricultural pesticide use and support for a more sustainable and localised agri-food system. The study site, located in the north-eastern Italian Alps, has in recent years been characterized by the spread of intensive agriculture, particularly due to the expansion of vineyards. Our conceptual framework brings together the literature on food democracy and just sustainability transitions, seen from a territorial perspective. We use this framework to examine the role played by civil society organisations and alternative food networks in municipal and territorial agri-food system governance. The results show how the grassroots anti-pesticide mobilisation played a key role in reforming municipal pesticide regulations and in slowing down the spread of intensive agriculture in the province. We also draw attention to the framings used by activists to gain the support of public opinion and local administrators. Finally, we discuss the role played by different forms of food democracy processes in facilitating the emergence of a territorial vision of just sustainability transitions.