The Future of Sustainability as a Product of the Present: Lessons from Modern Food in Ecuador

Stephen Sherwood, Myriam Paredes, Joan Gross and Micaela Hammer

RIVISTA DI STUDI SULLA SOSTENIBILITA', 2014, vol. 2014/2, issue 2, 83-103

Abstract: Drawing on historical research in the northern highlands of Ecuador, the authors summarize how 75 years of state-supported agricultural modernization and subsequent food policies have led to diverse, wide-scale socio-environmental decline. Despite this global trend, they find considerable heterogeneity in familylevel farming and food practices, with highly diverse and important implications for human health, economy and the environment. Following a study of ?positive deviance?, they argue that certain production-consumption patterns are more sustainable than others, representing a time-proven, yet largely neglected resource for policy reform. Nevertheless, Ecuador?s investment in modern food poses formidable institutional challenges to change, while sparking increasingly influential social counter-movements.

Keywords: Pratiche agricole e alimentari; eterogeneit?; sostenibilit?; Ecuador (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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