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Creating pathways to just and sustainable food systems with citizen assemblies

Schmid, Patricia; Lamotte, Léa; Curran, Michael and Bieri, Sabin (2024) Creating pathways to just and sustainable food systems with citizen assemblies. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, online, pp. 1-19.

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Food systems affect and are affected by the interrelated crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, resource depletion and health, amongst others. Transforming to sustainable approaches is vital, yet entangled with uncertainties, complexity and a great value diversion with stakeholders. Deliberative processes such as citizen assemblies offer a valuable contribution to such a transformation, since the crises and their responses affect everyday life, and therefore inviting individual and collective action. Still, who is included and whose knowledge counts affects outcomes. Theoretically anchored in concepts of environmental justice, our study analyses three nation-wide citizens' assemblies on climate change and food systems from Western Europe. It assesses (a) how citizens' assemblies can incorporate a broad set of viewpoints and design more substantive political answers to current crises, and (b) whether citizens' assemblies include environmental justice aspects to facilitate social change. The paper argues that systematic and methodologically reflected inclusion of various positionalities can inspire decision-making processes in that they incorporate procedural, recognition, and distributional justice to address problems of climate change or modern food systems. It concludes with offering further approaches to include more than scientific knowledge in deliberative processes for a just transformation towards sustainability.


EPrint Type:Journal paper
Keywords:citizen assemblies, climate crisis, deliberation process, environmental justice, food systems, just transformation, DeliDiets, Abacus, FiBL35224
Agrovoc keywords:
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Value
URI
English
food systems
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_bea5db85
English
democracy
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_28855
English
sustainability
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_33560
English
participation
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_37602
English
justice
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_c0956c50
English
assemblies
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_50156
English
climate change
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1666
Subjects: Knowledge management > Research methodology and philosophy > Systems research and participatory research
Food systems > Policy environments and social economy
Research affiliation: Switzerland > FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture Switzerland > Society > Consumer information
Switzerland > FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture Switzerland > Sustainability > Climate
Switzerland > FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture Switzerland > Society > Sustainable nutrition
Switzerland > University of Bern
ISSN:1351-1610
DOI:10.1080/13511610.2024.2309173
Related Links:https://www.deliberative-diets.net/, https://www.fibl.org/en/themes/projectdatabase/projectitem/project/2034
Deposited By: Curran, Dr. Michael
ID Code:53041
Deposited On:28 Mar 2024 12:32
Last Modified:28 Mar 2024 12:32
Document Language:English
Status:Published
Refereed:Peer-reviewed and accepted

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