The prospects of food sovereignty in the former Yugoslav republics

Dokmanović, Mirjana (author), Cvetićanin, Neven (author)

The neoliberal approach taken to the transition from socialism to capitalism in the six former Yugoslav republics has revealed its weaknesses in all spheres of economic activities, including food production. These countries have lost sovereignty with respect to regulating important national policy areas like food trade and production. Liberalisation of the food trade has adversely affected national economies by destroying many small-scale farmers and food producers. Corporate supermarkets have been taking over an ever bigger slice of the retail pie. Social movements are calling for direct democratic control over resources and food production to be regained. The article examines the prospects of these countries to overcome the increasing food insecurity by introducing food sovereignty

• Language: English
• Keywords: former Yugoslav republics, liberalization, food sovereignty, security, right to food, food security, economic democracy, food market liberalization
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 31.12.2021
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: Str. 1089–1116, 1158
• Numbering: Letn. 58, št. 4
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-138737
• UDC: 338.439.6:342.746(497)
• ISSN on article: 0040-3598
• DOI: 10.51936/tip.58.3.1089-1116
• COBISS.SI-ID: 92159747
• Publication date in RUL: 11.08.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Teorija in praksa : revija za družbena vprašanja
• Shortened title: Teor. praksa
• Publisher: Fakulteta za družbene vede
• ISSN: 0040-3598
• COBISS.SI-ID: 763652

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Možnosti za prehransko suverenost v nekdanjih jugoslovanskih republikah

Abstract

Neoliberalni pristop k tranziciji iz socializma v kapitalizem v šestih nekdanjih jugoslovanskih republikah je razkril svoje slabe strani v vseh sferah ekonomskih dejavnosti, vključno s proizvodnjo hrane. Te države so izgubile svojo suverenost pri reguliranju pomembnih področij nacionalnih politik, kot sta proizvodnja hrane in preskrba s hrano. Liberalizacija preskrbe s hrano je z uničenjem številnih malih kmetovalcev in proizvajalcev hrane škodljivo učinkovala na nacionalne ekonomije. Trgovske korporacije so prevzemale vse večji delež maloprodajnega kolača. Družbena gibanja pozivajo k temu, da bi ponovno pridobili neposredni demokratični nadzor nad viri in proizvodnjo hrane. V članku obravnavamo možnosti teh držav, da bi premagale naraščajočo prehransko negotovost, tako da bi vpeljale prehransko suverenost

• Keywords: bivše jugoslovanske republike, liberalizacija, prehranska suverenost, varnost, pravica do hrane, prehranska varnost, ekonomska demokracija, liberalizacija prehranskega trga