Correction: Editorial: Diverse economies and food democracy: implications for sustainability from an interdisciplinary perspective
Year: 2025
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For further information please read Frontiers' Conditions for Website Use and Copyright Statement, and the applicable CC-BY licence.ISSN 1664-8714 ISBN 978-2-8325-6543-8 DOI 10.3389/978-2-8325-6543-8 Generative AI statement Any alternative text (Alt text) provided alongside figures in the articles in this ebook has been generated by Frontiers with the support of artificial intelligence and reasonable efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, including review by the authors wherever possible. If you identify any issues, please contact us.Editorial on the Research Topic Diverse economies and food democracy: implications for sustainability from an interdisciplinary perspective Social movements have long argued for democratizing decisions about how food is produced, processed, distributed and consumed, and scholarly interest in such issues has recently been increasing. Yet questions remain as to what food democracy practically entails, how it is related to similar concepts such as food sovereignty, and how it affects the environment. Yet it largely remains unclear what food democracy practically entails, how it is related to similar concepts such as food sovereignty, and how it affects the environment. When publishing the call for papers that build this Research Topic, we wanted to support a deepening of the discussion on these three challenges by bringing together new perspectives on food democracy, understood as forms of joint decision-making by food producers, consumers, public authorities, and stakeholders, at various scales.The 11 papers of this Research Topic cover multiple aspects of food democracy, five with a conceptual focus (Jani et al., Plank et al., Leitheiser and Vezzoni, Anderson, Tilzey) and six that present conceptually-informed empirical case studies.Jani et al. outline the methodology of a Horizon EU project called FEAST highlighting the complexity, heterogeneity and fundamentally unpredictable character of agro-food system transformations, as well as the justice aspects involved. The authors argue for food democracy as a heuristic in the sense of "solutions that can flexibly account for different contexts, preferences and needs." By interpreting food democracy substantively and related to problem-solving potentials of democratic procedures not limited to voting and formal representation, "[w]ithin food systems, " they state, "food democracy could be a heuristic solution that provides the processes and can form the basis for driving just transitions." Plank et al. shed light on the intricacies of such processes. Moving away from the language of governance employed by Jani et al., they propose a new theoretical model for food regime change integrating critical state theory, the social capital concept, and territorial approaches. By drawing attention to the role of the state in the context of shifting articulations of cooperation and conflict with regard to agro-food systems and their transformations, Plank et al. address an important lacuna in much food system research.In a somewhat similar way, Leitheiser and Vezzoni grapple with the question of how to better address the real-world complexity and ambivalence of agro-food system transformation going beyond generic claims regarding alleged alternatives. By developing a novel framework for investigating the kinds of citizenship different types of approaches to food system change perform and promote, Leitheiser and Vezzoni are able to unpack the diversity of transformation initiatives. In doing so, they also sharpen our understanding of the concrete meaning of food democracy.Anderson takes a more explicitly political view of agrofood system transformation and the role of democracy for it, emphasizing the crucial distinction between substantive and formal democracy that Jani et al. also address. By asking about the character of the public that is supposed to be the democratic sovereign, Anderson points out "that food democracy requires the existence of alternative ways of producing and obtaining food beyond the outlets owned by the largest corporations, and must try to establish and maintain alternative social innovations, " as the concept of food sovereignty is advocating.This perspective is theoretically further elaborated and grounded in critical state in the by to Anderson, questions a understanding of food democracy that of and a political as substantive food democracy, " further the of food democracy and food the challenges and partial of and of the that may be as in the democracy, in the substantively understanding of both is fundamentally and with the of to the grounded in the Research Topic, and an of an alternative of producing and obtaining such as those for by the of to food on concepts of the public and democratic they argue that food democratic in and the to be 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