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This paper analyses the main fault lines of the industrial food system and the consequences of the absolute commodification of food. 
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The Sustainable Development Goals do not constitute a transformative agenda for meeting the basic needs of all people within the means of our shared planet.
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“Based on the examples of two collectives preparing lunches and giving them for free with an option of donation at Montreal universities, this article considers how services of general interest could be organized in an alternative way — namely how the combination of paid and unpaid work, spontaneous work involving high number of volunteers, and the dissociation of annual income from sale of output can serve as a model for providing needed public services. The probable expansion of such services in the future is supported by several current trends in the developed countries: for example, underemployment of human resources, a new work ethos, and the democratic deficit inherent in the current system of service provision by state or market providers. This article applies the case study method to illustrate citizens’ attitudes and to consider what structural and organizational changes may be needed to set up an alternative form of service provision potentially applicable to other venues.”
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* Article: Peasant Sovereignty? by Evaggelos Vallianatos. Independent Science News, March 2015 Here’s the summary: “Peasant and small-scale farming is increasingly being recognised as more productive, as more sustainable, and as democratically superior in comparison with most livelihoods and with most other forms of agriculture. This recognition is being enhanced by the concept of “food …
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* Article: Transition towards a food commons regime: re-commoning food to crowd-feed the world. By JOSE LUIS VIVERO POL From the abstract: “This paper analyses the main fault lines of the industrial food system and the consequences of the absolute commodification of food. Then, using the food regime theory and exploring the developments in the …
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“This essay has examined the relevance of user-innovation in the context of participatory plant breeding. This essay first looked at the shift during the 1980s to the early 1990s from a common heritage approach to a sovereign property treatment of PGRs and the consequences this shift had for intellectual property rights in such resources. Next, this essay looked at crucial distinctions between treating PGRs as “open-access” resources where no one has the right to exclude collection/exploitation of such resources and a “limited commons” treatment of such resources that are a “commons” on the inside and “private property” on the outside, with the insiders able to set conditions on the use of such resources. Finally, this essay assessed the potential to use lessons from the open software movement to use licenses from the international network of seed libraries/gene banks to leverage more open access for farmers and plant breeders to such resources to counterbalance the pervasive colonization of this area by private intellectual property claims asserted by large multinational agrochemical entities.”
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