Wild Food for Healthy, Sustainable, and Equitable Local Food Systems
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Food".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 September 2024 | Viewed by 3237
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food insecurity; environmental sociology; green criminology; quantitative methodology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In this Special Issue, we would like to highlight research on the role of wild foods (i.e., edible plants that grow without human cultivation and/or animals harvested from their natural habit, or more simply, food sourced from “hunting and gathering”) in helping to foster healthy, sustainable, and equitable local food systems. Food insecurity, the condition in which individuals and households lack regular access to sufficient, safe, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food, is on the rise across the world due to myriad factors including increasing income inequality within and between nations, the lasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, to name just a few. The global food system, which is primarily organized along neoliberal capitalist lines, has created a well-documented, export-oriented agribusiness model wherein food is primarily produced for its exchange value (i.e., as a commodity to be sold for money) rather than its use value, i.e., to feed and nourish the individuals (and their local communities) who produce it. Local food insecurity often results from this export-oriented model as agricultural products which were grown to feed the local population in the past have given way to specialty crop production (e.g., coffee, tea, etc.). This model is linked to increasing local food insecurity as communities move away from the production of so-called traditional food crops. Alternative food movements have arisen around the world to challenge this process and build more equitable and sustainable local food systems. While there is an already-substantial and still-growing literature of alternative food systems, one area remains understudied, namely, the role that wild foods play in food systems that afford resilience, equity, and sustainability at the individual, household, and community levels. We welcome papers on any aspect of the role of wild food in crafting a re-envisioning of future food systems, from any region of the world.
Dr. Michael A. Long
Prof. Dr. Michael S. Carolan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- wild food
- hunting
- gathering
- local food
- sustainability
- food insecurity
