A journal of the French National Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE)
Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies is a scientific peer-reviewed journal focusing on research and analysis in economics and sociology related to topics in Agricultural, Food and Environmental studies.
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This special issue will build our understanding of the inequality-unsustainability nexus and will help to reconceptualise ‘social sustainability’ in the food sector as a lens and method to address this nexus. We expect contributions addressing one – or more – of the following issues:
Political-economic dynamics and mechanisms underpinning the food-system’s inequality-unsustainability nexus
The collective re-organisation of food practices towards sustainability in ways that address entrenched inequalities
Modes of collective and public support, regulations, and social protection that ensure the durability of sustainability transitions and transformations of food systems and practices over the medium and long-term, in particular through attention to social inequality.
We welcome both theoretical and empirical contributions at various levels, encompassing the broader food and agri-food system, subsystems, or specific transition/transformation interventions. In particular, we invite submissions that engage with and discuss the inequality-unsustainability nexus by reconceptualising social sustainability as a lens and a method (see full Call for Papers).
DEADLINE : June 30th 2024.
The scope of this special issue is to explore vulnerability and inequality dynamics challenging land and water as limited resources for farming and ecological systems. The objective is to address these challenges with a social sciences perspective in economics, sociology or geography on agricultural activities and the management of natural areas, with a special but non-limiting interest in the Mediterranean context.
The expected articles may address these socio-economic challenges by considering public policies, collective actions, power relations and conflicts at the various scales of the farming systems (farm, landscape, region). Proposals are expected to fill up knowledge gaps in the comprehensive understanding of these both dynamics of vulnerability and inequality. Approaches providing insights for an integrated understanding of land and water resources at a landscape scale will be particularly welcome.
DEADLINE: March 31st 2024
The objective of this call is to look closely at contributions that show how the application of these renewed multidisciplinary analytical framework to real cases bring new knowledge on value chains and improve/support decision making to respond to sustainability challenges. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
What are the impacts of VCs on the different dimensions of sustainability and what is the added value of interdisciplinarity for making such assessment?
What is the specificity of the governance of the most sustainable VCs?
What are the levers for favouring the emergence and maturity of these sustainable VCs? What is the impact of public policies? What are the possible valorisations of these VCs by the consumers (e.g. fair trade)?
DEADLINE: April 1, 2024.
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