Denying recognition to traditional food systems produces food insecurity

Evidence

At the base of such injustices is a straightforward lack of recognition of the validity and value of traditional systems of providing food to populations. The lack of recognition leads to an upheaval of existing food production systems and, argue critics like Shiva, less food security. — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 302

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Reinforces the eco-justice thread that misrecognition precedes distributive harm (here, food insecurity); could support a follow-up point in the trees-as-infrastructure piece about local knowledge systems as infrastructure.
• XREF: Ties directly to the reader’s core trivalent-justice framework — recognition as precondition of distributive outcomes — echoing the earlier claim that maldistribution cannot be cured without prior recognition (ch 18). — connects to: Food sovereignty enshrines a nation’s right to produce food respecting local cultural diversity. — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 320; Food security movements oppose displacement from land into vulnerable cash economies — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 288; Unwanted environmental risk exposure constitutes a denial of recognition — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 223 (+4 more)
• QUESTION: Useful counter-challenge to keep in mind: Shiva’s causal chain (misrecognition → upheaval → insecurity) invites the question of where procedural participation sits in global food governance.

Broader Connections

• Misrecognition and political exclusion structurally block poor communities’ participation in environmental decisions #expands (0.82) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 248
• Resource control by non-Western peoples is framed as a moral disqualification #expands (0.80) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 728
• Unwanted environmental risk exposure constitutes a denial of recognition #expands (0.75) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 223
• Federal commodity food programs perpetuate colonial dependency on Native lands #corroborates (0.75) — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 722