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2022 Fiscal Year Research-status Report

The role of informal food practices in convivial post-growth rural lifestyles

Research Project

Project/Area Number 19K15931
Research InstitutionResearch Institute for Humanity and Nature

Principal Investigator

Steven McGreevy  総合地球環境学研究所, 研究部, 客員准教授 (10700172)

Project Period (FY) 2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
KeywordsInformal Food / Social practice / Convivial lifestyles / Sustainability / Rural livelihoods
Outline of Annual Research Achievements

During this period, writing, publication and dissemination efforts were conducted.

A total of six publications were released during the 2022-2023 period. Highlights include a perspective paper "Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world" published in Nature Sustainability co-authored with a number of leading figures who participated in the 15th International Symposium of the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, entitled “Transitioning Cultures of Everyday Food Consumption and Production: Stories from a Post-Growth Future” and held on January 13-16th, 2021. Furthermore, the survey on informal food practice from multiple countries was published in Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, titled "From locked-down to locked in? COVID-induced social practice changes across four consumption domains."

A total of four invited lectures and one conference presentation stemming from this research were given last year. Invited lectures were given at Leiden University, Wageningen University, and Cambridge University and the FAO.

Current Status of Research Progress
Current Status of Research Progress

2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.

Reason

As the data collection has ended, this year has been devoted to writing, publication and dissemination. In terms of publication, many papers have been published in high ranking sustainability journals which have seen strong dissemination among like-minded academic communities.

Specifically, invited lectures at Leiden University in connection with the Dutch funded research project "Transition to a Sustainable Food System", Wageningen University for the "Economic perspectives for a Circular Food System" course, and
Cambridge University's "Political Ecology Research Group" have showcased the findings of the work to a broad audience. Publication of this research was also the trigger to being invited to participate in the FAO Workshop: "Exploring sustainable futures through agricultural foresight exercises."

Currently writing is proceeding for a book to be published as soon as possible.

Strategy for Future Research Activity

Research results will be further disseminated at the SCORAI 2023 conference in Wageningen in July, 2023 and at the Degrowth Conference to take place in Zagreb in August 2023.

Progress on the book "Post-growth food for Japan: revaluing informal and wild food practices as provisioning systems" with Australia National Press did not proceed as planned, as the pandemic impacted data collection and capacity for writing among many authors. The book will introduce conceptual framework for IFPs as part of post-growth food systems and illustrates elements of the framework through a collection of case-studies of IFPs in Japan. We aim to publish this book as soon as possible.

Causes of Carryover

We plan on publishing an open access book on this research that will incur costs associated with editing and open access licensing.

  • Research Products

    (12 results)

All 2023 2022

All Journal Article (6 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 5 results,  Peer Reviewed: 5 results,  Open Access: 6 results) Presentation (5 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Invited: 4 results) Book (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Book Review: HARVESTING STATE SUPPORT: Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japanese Agriculture | By Hanno Jentzsch2023

    • Author(s)
      Steven R. McGreevy
    • Journal Title

      Pacific Affairs

      Volume: 95 Pages: 4

    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Constructing practice-orietned futures for sustainable urban food policy in Bangkok2022

    • Author(s)
      Kanang Kantamaturapoj, Steven R. McGreevy, Natapol Thongplew, Motoki Akitsu, Joost Vervoort, Astrid Mangnus, Kazuhiko Ota, Christoph DD Rupprecht, Norie Tamura, Maximillian Spiegelberg, Mai Kobayashi, Sittidaj Pongkijvorasin, Suwit Wibulpolprasert
    • Journal Title

      Futures

      Volume: 139 Pages: 102949

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.futures.2022.102949

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Learning, playing, and experimenting with critical food futures2022

    • Author(s)
      Steven R. McGreevy, Christoph DD Rupprecht, Norie Tamura, Kazuhiko Ota, Mai Kobayashi, Maximilian Spiegelberg
    • Journal Title

      Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems

      Volume: 6 Pages: 909259

    • DOI

      10.3389/fsufs.2022.909259

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Not just playing: The politics of designing games for impact on anticipatory climate governance2022

    • Author(s)
      Joost M Vervoort, Manjana Milkoreit, Lisette van Beek, Astrid C Mangnus, David Farrell, Steven R McGreevy, Kazuhiko Ota, Christoph DD Rupprecht, Jason B Reed, Matthew Huber
    • Journal Title

      Geoforum

      Volume: 137 Pages: 213-221

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.03.009

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world2022

    • Author(s)
      McGreevy Steven R.、Rupprecht Christoph D. D.、Niles Daniel、Wiek Arnim、et al.
    • Journal Title

      Nature Sustainability

      Volume: 5 Pages: 1011~1017

    • DOI

      10.1038/s41893-022-00933-5

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] From locked-down to locked-in? COVID-induced social practice change across four consumption domains2022

    • Author(s)
      Simona Zollet, Julia Siedle, Miriam Bodenheimer, Steven R McGreevy, Caroline Boules, Clemens Brauer, Md Habibur Rahman, Christoph DD Rupprecht, Johannes Schuler
    • Journal Title

      Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy

      Volume: 18, 1 Pages: 796-821

    • DOI

      10.1080/15487733.2022.2127294

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Sustainable food system transformation: Insights from the FEAST Project and Post-growth food systems2022

    • Author(s)
      Steven McGreevy
    • Organizer
      "Transition to a sustainable food system" NWO Project
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Learning about, playing with, and experimenting in critical food futures using soft scenarios: Directions for Food Policy and Planning2022

    • Author(s)
      Steven R. McGreevy, Christoph D. D. Rupprecht, Norie Tamura, Kazuhiko Ota, Mai Kobayashi, Maximilian Spiegelberg
    • Organizer
      10th Annual Conference of the AESOP, Sustainable Food Planning Group
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Comments on Drivers & Outputs2022

    • Author(s)
      Steven McGreevy
    • Organizer
      FAO Workshop: Exploring Sustainable Futures Through Agricultural Foresight Exercises
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Sustainable Agrifood Systems for a Post-growth World2022

    • Author(s)
      Steven McGreevy
    • Organizer
      Wageningen University, "Economic Perspectives for a Circular Food System"
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Sustainable Agrifood Systems for a Post-growth World2022

    • Author(s)
      Steven McGreevy
    • Organizer
      Cambridge University, Dept. of Geography, Political Ecology Research Group
    • Invited
  • [Book] Embedding Futures in Urban Food Governance: Participatory Foresight in Eindhoven and Kyoto in Routledge Handbook of Urban Food Governance2022

    • Author(s)
      Aniek Hebinck, Joost Vervoort, Astrid Mangnus, Steven R. McGreevy
    • Total Pages
      14
    • Publisher
      Routledge
    • ISBN
      9781003055907

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Published: 2023-12-25  

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