Food sovereignty and sustainability mid-pandemic: how Michigan’s experience of Covid-19 highlights chasms in the food system

Sarah King (), Amy McFarland and Jody Vogelzang
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Sarah King: Grand Valley State University
Amy McFarland: Grand Valley State University
Jody Vogelzang: Grand Valley State University

Agriculture and Human Values, 2022, vol. 39, issue 2, No 20, 827-838

Abstract: Abstract This paper offers observations on people’s lived experience of the food system in Michigan during the early Covid-19 pandemic as an initial critical foray into the everyday pandemic food world. The Covid-19 crisis illuminates a myriad of adaptive food behaviors, as people struggle to address their destabilized lives, including the casual acknowledgement of the pandemic, then anxiety of the unknown, the subsequent new dependency, and the possible emergence of a new normal. The pandemic makes the injustices inherent in the food system apparent across communities, demonstrating that food injustice destabilizes all members of the food system, regardless of their social location. The challenges of eating in a pandemic also reinforce the importance of building a sustainable food system; the challenges of food sovereignty and food sustainability are inextricably linked, and the pandemic lays this bare.

Keywords: Covid-19; Pandemic; Food systems; Sustainability; Food sovereignty; Food behaviors; Michigan; Hoarding; Anxiety; New dependency; Food justice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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