The re-naturalization of food in Valposchiavo: political ecology of an ‘organic valley’

Journal title RIVISTA GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA
Author/s Giacomo Pettenati
Publishing Year 2021 Issue 2021/2
Language Italian Pages 17 P. 137-153 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/rgioa2-2021oa12037
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In the last decades, the relationship between food and nature has experienced two intertwined processes: the de-naturalization of agri-food industry, that apparently has ‘freed’ food from natural processes and the ri-naturalization, linked to the quality turn, that recently transformed agrifood systems and food consumption. This article focuses on the relationships between food and nature, basing on the analysis of the processes that are recently taking place in Valposchiavo (Switzerland), where local agri-food chainssustainability is the core of local development and territorial marketing strategies. The analysis uses the theoretical and methodological framework of food political ecology, which helps to unveil and critically analyse the complexity and the political dimension of such processes.

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Giacomo Pettenati, La rinaturalizzazione del cibo in Valposchiavo: ecologia politica di una ‘valle bio’ in "RIVISTA GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA" 2/2021, pp 137-153, DOI: 10.3280/rgioa2-2021oa12037