Julie Kunen speaking at the 64th Annual Conference of the Center for Latin American Studies

Foodies and Greens: can the foodie movement impact tropical conservation at scale, or is the only food trend relevant to conservation the continuing expansion of industrial agriculture?
Kunen, Julie
Wildlife Conservation Society, jkunen@wcs.org
Conservationists see industrial agriculture as the antithesis of conservation. We picture enormous squares of denuded land – as in the Brazilian Amazon – as the complete absence of nature. We know that agricultural production is the leading driver of tropical deforestation, and that the global population is increasing, along with the demand for food. But a different type of food movement is also happening – the foodie movement, with its various offshoots of locavorism, nose-to-tail eating, organic farming, and the search for more authentic foodways. Is the foodie movement relevant to conservation at a scale that matters in the context of deforestation and biodiversity loss? And if it is, does such a movement benefit people in the tropics, or only the “wealthy north”?

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