Comments on: Seeing Food as a Commons https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/seeing-food-as-a-commons/2013/10/07 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Thu, 21 Nov 2013 12:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: fran k https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/seeing-food-as-a-commons/2013/10/07/comment-page-1#comment-565802 Thu, 21 Nov 2013 12:59:00 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=33440#comment-565802 When we fully realise we have starved
each other and others have starved us
by reliance on price scarcity, what will
we do about it?

Those of us that know will act!

Food, Warmth which includes Shelter,
Water and Air as a commons.

This looks a serious start. thanks Jose.

]]> By: H Luce https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/seeing-food-as-a-commons/2013/10/07/comment-page-1#comment-554544 Tue, 15 Oct 2013 01:34:02 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=33440#comment-554544 The problem is “How do we get there?” With the systems now in place, it seems frankly impossible, the regulatory environment would put a quick halt to something like this, at least in the US, and the political system would turn it into another form of welfare, thus co-opting and destroying it. I think the only way this could come about is with a USSR-style collapse of governmental structure. Of course, quite a few people see such a thing as pretty much inevitable, but still it’s a problem.

]]> By: Jose Luis Vivero https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/seeing-food-as-a-commons/2013/10/07/comment-page-1#comment-554448 Mon, 14 Oct 2013 10:47:13 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=33440#comment-554448 Dear H Luce,

In the two recent pieces on the issue I try to develop the initial sketch of what could be the governance model for this grassroot-level collective actions institutions to grow, based on a tricentric mode of governance, where more space (and more support) is allowed for alternative food networks to develop, occupying areas and duties that were formerly performed either by states or by markets. It is not returning back to state-led food distributions, it is finding a more just and sustainable food system where we all value rightfully the different dimensions of food, and not just its commodity dimension.

In any case it is a work in progress, and I am constantly learning from the very initiators and collective groups that are currently changing the way we produce and eat food.

http://fr.slideshare.net/joseluisviveropol/food-as-a-commons-reframing-the-narrative-of-the-food-system

http://www.shareable.net/blog/why-food-should-be-a-commons-not-a-commodity

Regards
Jose Luis

]]> By: H Luce https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/seeing-food-as-a-commons/2013/10/07/comment-page-1#comment-554140 Sat, 12 Oct 2013 17:48:58 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=33440#comment-554140 There’s a bit of danger in this – allowing governments a significant role in this gives them the power to deny food to their citizens in order to achieve political goals, as has been seen in the “government shutdown” in the US, where the Executive Branch has posted machine-gun toting guards in national parks in order to keep citizens from using those resources.

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