ABSTRACT

Food sovereignty has emerged as a leading sense-making framework for the nascent conceptualization of an agroecological urbanism – a radically new paradigm for urbanization, grounded in political agroecology. At present, discourses like food democracy are often isolated from food sovereignty and agroecology in the urban context, potentially resulting in missed opportunities for creating holistic, inclusive, and scalable transformation in the urban food system. This study used data from existing municipal food policy in Seattle, U.S.A. and interviews with Seattle community gardeners to probe resident practices and policy recommendations in relation to the conceptual frameworks of food sovereignty and food democracy. The findings identify two key dimensions of food democracy as notably absent from the food sovereignty framework within this contextualized landscape, including mechanisms that enable vertical deliberation between food system stakeholders and opportunities for strengthened self and community efficacy – thus, exposing a potential gap in the ongoing development of an actionable agroecological urbanism. Working in tandem within the frame of agroecological urbanism, the food sovereignty and food democracy frameworks may support transition from unsustainable growth patterns and enable agroecological massification in an urban Global North context.

摘要

粮食主权已经成为农业生态城市主义的新生概念化的领先意义框架，这是一种以政治农业生态学为基础的全新的城市化范式。目前，诸如粮食民主之类的话语常常与城市中的粮食主权和农业生态学相隔离。背景，可能会导致错过在城市食品系统中进行全面，包容和可扩展的转型的机会。这项研究使用了来自美国西雅图的现行市政食品政策的数据，以及对西雅图社区园丁的采访，以探究与食品主权和食品民主的概念框架相关的居民行为和政策建议。调查结果确定了粮食民主化的两个关键维度，而在此背景下，粮食主权框架显然没有，包括使粮食系统利益相关者之间进行纵向审议以及增强自我和社区效能的机会的机制，从而暴露了持续存在的潜在差距。发展可行的农业生态都市主义。