Framing Political Issues in Food System Transformative Changes

Valeria Sodano and Maria Teresa Gorgitano ()
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Valeria Sodano: Department of Political Sciences, University of Naples, 80138 Naples, Italy
Maria Teresa Gorgitano: Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples, 80138 Naples, Italy

Social Sciences, 2022, vol. 11, issue 10, 1-19

Abstract: The paper addresses political issues related to policy interventions for food system sustainability. It presents the results of a literature review, which explores how the concept of power has been used so far by scholars of food system dynamics. Articles numbering 116 were subjected to an in-depth qualitative analysis, which allowed the identification of three main strands of the literature with respect to food and power issues: (1) marketing and industrial organisation literature, dealing with the economic power exercised by economic actors in contexts of noncompetitive market structures; (2) articles addressing the power issue from a political economy perspective and by using an interdisciplinary approach; (3) heterogenous studies. The results of the review witness a growing interest for the analysis of food systems, political issues, and the need of a wider use of analytical tools and concepts offered by social sciences for the study of power in sustainability policy design.

Keywords: policy design; power; political economy; food supply chain; democratization; literature review; transformative change; empowerment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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