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Adam Calo
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Assistant Professor, land and food governance. Land Food Nexus: adamcalo.substack.com/ Landscapes podcast: landscapes.libsyn.com/ The Netherlands
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Proofs arrived. Will be the introduction to this special issue:đŸ§Ș#foodstudies online.ucpress.edu/elementa/pag... Transforming land for sustainable food: Emerging contests to property regimes in the Global North

An abstract for the above article: Land relations—property, access, tenure, landscape—are a central underlying driver of the material form of
food systems, from farm to distribution. Despite their fluidity and historical and geographical diversity, land
relations have a tendency to become normalized through law, custom, and practice. In particular, the
exclusionary private “ownership model” of property has come to be deeply entrenched in legal systems
worldwide, particularly in the Global North. The power of this normalization is evidenced, for example, in
how research and practice aimed at reshaping food systems from grassroots movement, policy-level, or
biophysical perspectives often omit the role of land relations in bringing about agricultural sustainability
and agrarian change. Understanding land relations as static thus potentially constrains or directs the kinds of
sustainable agriculture and food transformations that can take place. Entrenched norms of property
drastically limi
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50 free online copies: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XJYVA...

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My review of "Saving a rainforest and losing the world: conservation and displacement in the global tropics" is now published in the Journal of Peasant Studies. 50 free online copies link in replies. đŸ§Ș #foodstudieswww.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Saving a rainforest and losing the world: conservation and displacement in the global tropics
Saving a rainforest and losing the world: conservation and displacement in the global tropics

Published in The Journal of Peasant Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)

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Proofs arrived for this forthcoming book chapter in "Postcapitalist Countrysides." đŸ§Ș #foodstudies

A screen capture of the first words of  new book chapter: Some of the most powerful postcapitalist logics, imaginaries and social
projects owe their origins in food. Nothing could be more core to concerns
of the means of production than produce itself. Control over the basis for
social reproduction offers a power of self-determination that confronts
the disciplinary force of the wage relation. That is why concepts like
food sovereignty, agroecology and re-peasantisation have seized the
imagination of post and anti-capitalist movements worldwide
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The moral of the story is up for interpretation.

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Good job, tomato. An example for us all.

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Adam Calo
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Assistant Professor, land and food governance. Land Food Nexus: adamcalo.substack.com/ Landscapes podcast: landscapes.libsyn.com/ The Netherlands
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