Together with a colleague I am organising a section at the ECPR general
conference, Montreal 2015 ( http://www.ecpr.eu/Events/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=94
)
We welcome panel and paper proposals (until 10 November 2014) that are based on the section
description below. If you have any questions,
please do not hesitate to contact me: Gerard.Breeman@wur.nl
Cross-Disciplinary Issues for Food Policy
and Governance: Challenges and Opportunities
Food has proven to be a
complex, even wicked, policy issue which encompasses multiple policy
domains. The call for a more integrated food policy away from mono-disciplinary
focus on agricultural, international development, or health is
increasing. Food policy integrates nutrition and public health, agriculture,
environment, ethics and social justice, trade, ecology, spatial planning,
climate change, water management, and energy and therefore needs the analysis
of all policy domains involved, as well as cross-policy domain research. The
interconnectedness of relevant policy domains means that food represents
a policy challenge as well as a governance challenge at all levels (i.e.,
local, national, international, multinational). As such, it requires not only
the setup of cross-boundary governance arrangements between traditional
institutions and administrative competences, but also the analysis of possible
gaps between institutions, deadlocks, miscommunication and/or lack of
coordination.
Food policy and
governance issues cross different levels and scales: from global discussion
about food security, to local water management issues; from acute problems to
looming catastrophes in the distant future. All these interconnected
linkages and cross-overs pose many challenges to state actors, civil society, and
the private sector. In this section we will to explore the variety of
issues that arise when working towards integrated food policies.
We welcome panel and paper proposals that
analyse cross-policy and governance issues in the field of food and agriculture.
We are looking for proposals that address participatory governance for food
security, integrated systems approaches for food governance, local governance
arrangements for sustainable food systems, or food governance in a changing
geopolitical context.
Suggested
panels:
Panel
1: Participatory governance and food policy
Panel 2: Governing at the Nexus
Panel 3: Integrated Systems Approaches for Food Governance/ Global Environmental Change and Food Systems
Panel 4: Future Challenges for Food Governance
Panel 5: Local governance arrangements for sustainable food systems
Panel 6: Food Governance in a Changing Geopolitical Context
Panel 2: Governing at the Nexus
Panel 3: Integrated Systems Approaches for Food Governance/ Global Environmental Change and Food Systems
Panel 4: Future Challenges for Food Governance
Panel 5: Local governance arrangements for sustainable food systems
Panel 6: Food Governance in a Changing Geopolitical Context
