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Food Systems: How Can the Normative Practice Approach Help Toward a Just and Sustainable Food System?

Food Systems: How Can the Normative Practice Approach Help Toward a Just and Sustainable Food System?
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Author(s): Henk Jochemsen (Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands)and Corné J. Rademaker (Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands)
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 23
Source title: Research Anthology on Strategies for Achieving Agricultural Sustainability
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-5352-0.ch005

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Abstract

Today's predominant food system on the one hand produces plenty of food, making food relatively cheap for most people in the world. However, for many people, the food they can afford is insufficiently nutritious. Major global health problems like obesity are partly a result of the present food system. Furthermore, the modern industrial way of producing food has negative environmental consequences, consisting among others of a decline in soil fertility and a loss of biodiversity. Another food system is required to obtain sustainable global food and nutrition security. This food system should observe the normativity of the agricultural practices that produce food. The authors' analysis of agricultural practices shows that the farm is economically qualified but that the primary process of care for soil, crops, and animals can best be seen as an ethically qualified supporting practice that steers the “meaningful shaping” of the interventions foundational for agricultural practices.

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