Transition towards a food commons regime: re-commoning food to crowd-feed the world

摘要: This paper analyses the main fault lines of industrial food system and consequences absolute commodification food. Then, using regime theory exploring developments in (mainstream) urban alternative networks (AFNs) rural sovereignty movement (innovative niches), author proposes a transition pathway (the re-commonification food) towards commons which primacy rests its feature as human beings’ need different dimensions are properly valued, opposition to corporate mono-dimensional valuation commodity. In order crowdsource this transition, argues AFNs grow together, beyond individual organisations, knit bigger web capable confronting for common good. ongoing that will span decades is be steered by tricentric governance (urban civic collective actions food, partner states social private enterprises) enables access promote all through multiplicity open structures sustainable peer-to-peer practices aimed at sharing, co-producing trading knowledge. Unlike market, about cooperation, stewardship, equity, self-production, sustainability, collectiveness, embeddedness direct democracy from local global. Shifting dominant discourse sphere arena up whole new world economic, political societal innovations, not least Universal Food Coverage.