The Indispensable Territorial Dimension of Food Supply: A View from Brazil During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Elisabetta Recine; Potira V Preiss; Mireya Valencia; Matheus Alves Zanella

doi:10.1057/s41301-021-00308-x

The Indispensable Territorial Dimension of Food Supply: A View from Brazil During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Development (Rome). 2021;64(3-4):282-287. doi: 10.1057/s41301-021-00308-x. Epub 2021 Oct 11.

Authors

Elisabetta Recine¹, Potira V Preiss², Mireya Valencia³, Matheus Alves Zanella⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Nutrition, University of Brasília (UnB), Brasília, DF Brazil.
² University of Santa Cruz Do Sul, Santa Cruz Do Sul, Brazil.
³ Faculty of Agronomy and Veterinary, University of Brasília (UnB), Brasília, DF Brazil.
⁴ Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

Abstract

The research-activists network 'Collective Action on Real Food' analyzed alternative food supply initiatives formed in response and/or expanded due to the pandemic in Brazil and identified more than 260 examples. Despite this dynamism, the policy processes of the UN Food System Summit were not able to-or might not even have tried to-break the mechanisms that make such initiatives politically invisible.

Keywords: Alternative food systems; Food supply dynamics; National pathways; Short circuits; UN food system summit.