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Dottorato

MANZONI, ANTONIO

etd-10152021-140812

Finding a more sustainable and eco-logical conceptual framework for the EU Common Agricultural Policy. Insights from the food commons approach.

IUS/03

Istituto di Diritto, Politica e Sviluppo - PHD IN HUMAN RIGHTS AND GLOBAL POLITICS: LEGAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, AND ECONOMIC CHALLENGES

relatore Prof.ssa ALABRESE, MARIAGRAZIA
Membro Prof. VIVERO POL, Jose Luis
Membro Prof. VITI, DOMENICO
Membro Prof.ssa CRISTIANI, ELOISA

• beni comuni
• diritto agroalimentare
• diritto agroambientale
• Farm to Fork
• food commons
• Green Deal
• Politica Agricola Comune (PAC)
• sistemi alimentari sostenibili
• Unione Europea

14/06/2022;

parziale

The "food commons" is a theoretical approach - but also and foremost a colorful and fluid socio-political movement - which emerged in the recent years, and whose main purpose is to design and implement more sustainable food systems through a re-framing of the paradigms and mechanisms underlying the industrialized food system. To do so, the food commons generally aim at applying the core features of the commons category to the multiple facets of the food system. The food commons’ main claim can be summarized under three intertwined goals: (i) a decommodification of the industrial “neoliberal” food system, through a reframing of the current conception of food, from a mono-dimensional commodity to a multi-dimensional resource; (ii) the adoption and official recognition of a “third center of power” in the governance of food systems, to complement and balance the State and, most notably, the excessive power in the hands of private actors. This third pillar would be represented by the food commons, i.e., all those initiatives for the collective, inclusive, cooperative, and ecological governance of food-producing resources (and closely related activities) operated by the civil society in a bottom-up fashion (food commoning); (iii) the re-evaluation of food systems’ actors, from mere passive consumers to food citizens constituting a food democracy, i.e., as politically responsible individuals who collectively shape their food system according to more democratic, participative, and ecological mechanisms. Building on these considerations, in this thesis I aim to respond to the following research inquiry: could the food commons discourse provide a positive contribution to attain a more sustainable food system for the EU? More specifically, could the food commons constitute a valid conceptual framework for a paradigmatic shift in the narratives and theoretical premises that lie underneath the EU agri-food policymaking, especially in consideration of the sustainability targets expressed by the incoming CAP 2023-2027 and the Farm to Fork Strategy synergic endeavor? To answer this question, I structured my thesis in the following way. After having provided an outline of the CAP’s history and main features, and the illustration of how the food system concept has gradually entered the EU agricultural policy-making (Ch. 1 and 2), I will discuss the food commons understanding, highlighting its main elements and insights for a more sustainable reframing of our food system regulation and design (Ch. 3). Eventually, I will devote the last part of the thesis to specifically address the afore-mentioned research question and to critically discuss the capability of the food commons to provide a positive contribution for the EU agri-food and agri-environmental policymaking, in light of the new CAP and F2F ambitious targets for the future.

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