Human ecology and food systems: Insights from the Philippines

Davila, F

Human ecology and food systems: Insights from the Philippines

Davila, F

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Human Ecology Review, 2018, 24 (1), pp. 23 - 49
Issue Date:: 2018-09-01

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dc.contributor.author	Davila, F https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6899-1854	en_US
dc.date.issued	2018-09-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Human Ecology Review, 2018, 24 (1), pp. 23 - 49	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1074-4827	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/130263
dc.description.abstract	© 2018, Society for Human Ecology. All rights reserved. Feeding the world sustainably requires balancing social, economic, and environmental concerns. The food systems concept guides the study of social and environmental processes that influence food and nutrition security. Human ecology conceptually offers insights into the social components of a system and its interaction with environmental change. This paper demonstrates how human ecology helps identify the dominant discourses that influence dominant social drivers in food systems. This is done through documenting the historical legacies of agricultural commodity production systems in the Philippines since Spanish colonization, and the human and ecological implications of this history. The analysis shows the presence of a maladaptive system influenced by market-oriented food security as a dominant discourse. Alternative discourses focused on sovereignty and participation exist in the Philippines, however these are often marginalised from dominant policy and research programs. The paper discusses how weak feedback processes provide possible intervention points in policy or farmer-led activities to explore alternative pathways to food and nutrition security. The paper concludes with highlighting how human ecology offers useful framework for advancing food systems analysis into social, political, and policy dimensions of food activities. Such analysis can help develop new research and policies that require managing the competing discourses of how to achieve sustainable food and nutrition security.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Human Ecology Review	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.22459/HER.24.01.2018.02	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Ecology	en_US
dc.title	Human ecology and food systems: Insights from the Philippines	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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utslib.citation.volume	24	en_US
utslib.for	0502 Environmental Science and Management	en_US
utslib.for	1604 Human Geography	en_US
utslib.for	05 Environmental Sciences	en_US
utslib.for	16 Studies in Human Society	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Research)
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Research)/Institute For Sustainable Futures
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pubs.issue	1	en_US
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pubs.volume	24	en_US

Abstract:

© 2018, Society for Human Ecology. All rights reserved. Feeding the world sustainably requires balancing social, economic, and environmental concerns. The food systems concept guides the study of social and environmental processes that influence food and nutrition security. Human ecology conceptually offers insights into the social components of a system and its interaction with environmental change. This paper demonstrates how human ecology helps identify the dominant discourses that influence dominant social drivers in food systems. This is done through documenting the historical legacies of agricultural commodity production systems in the Philippines since Spanish colonization, and the human and ecological implications of this history. The analysis shows the presence of a maladaptive system influenced by market-oriented food security as a dominant discourse. Alternative discourses focused on sovereignty and participation exist in the Philippines, however these are often marginalised from dominant policy and research programs. The paper discusses how weak feedback processes provide possible intervention points in policy or farmer-led activities to explore alternative pathways to food and nutrition security. The paper concludes with highlighting how human ecology offers useful framework for advancing food systems analysis into social, political, and policy dimensions of food activities. Such analysis can help develop new research and policies that require managing the competing discourses of how to achieve sustainable food and nutrition security.

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