(Un)Earthing New Pathways for a Justice Transition : Cultivating Hope and Food on Contested Terrains in Scotland, Amazon and the Arctic

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Garvey, Brian and Shapovalova, Daria and Mendonca, Maria Luisa and Combe, Malcolm and Barbosa, Ana Laide and McLeod, Gehan (2022) (Un)Earthing New Pathways for a Justice Transition : Cultivating Hope and Food on Contested Terrains in Scotland, Amazon and the Arctic. Scottish Universities Insight Institute.

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Abstract

This programme critically addressed the globalised trends towards further land concentration and food insecurity that resonate across the biomes of Scotland, the Arctic and Brazil’s Amazon. This project shared both ancestral and new academic knowledge from these regions to understand the implications of the financialisation of land for both the carbon and green economy, the opportunities for and limits to smallholder and community access to land, and sustainable production of food. Amidst increasing concentration and pricing of land and ongoing conflict over land use, the project had the following objectives: i) to open dialogue across borders, across disciplines and between plural forms of knowledge towards new pathways for sustainable land use and food production within and beyond Scotland; ii) to build a community of practice and trust between stakeholders in Scotland, Amazon and Arctic based upon shared values, meaning and practices for land use that question and depart from incumbent western and market-oriented approaches to a just transition that are making questionable progress at best; iii) to agree a charter of shared principles for a justice transition towards equitable land use and food production; iv) to identify key levers at the level of local policy making and international human and environmental rights protection to further sustainable land use and food production.

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Garvey, Brian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1931-8679, Shapovalova, Daria, Mendonca, Maria Luisa, Combe, Malcolm ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1711-9150, Barbosa, Ana Laide and McLeod, Gehan;
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