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• Petterson Fürst, Johanna, "Food security as a policy problem: long term developments in Sweden’s parliamentary debates", , 2024. [bibtex]  [abstract]  (Paper given at the conference: Nordic Ruralities - The 6th Nordic Conference for Rural Research, Kiruna, Sweden, Dec 3-5 2024. Session: Food security and preparedness of the Nordic region in times of the war in Europe) 

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  Bibtex

  @misc{PetterssonFurst2024Kiruna,
   author = {Petterson Fürst and Johanna},
   title = {Food security as a policy problem: long term developments in Sweden’s parliamentary debates},
   year = {2024}
  }

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  Abstract

  Recent international events such as the Covid-19 pandemic and
  Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have put food security back on the
  agenda and highlighted the vulnerabilities of a global
  industrialized food system. In Sweden, this development stands in
  sharp contrast to the de-securitization of food policy that followed
  the ‘end of history’ at the end of the Cold War, which saw decades
  of emphasis on food as an integral part of preparedness replaced
  with food policies that emphasised international competitiveness in
  food production. This paper asks how food becomes part of and/or
  disappears from the security policy agenda and what framings that
  contribute to this development. Using Swedish parliamentary data
  covering the last 100 years, the development of food as a security
  issue in the Swedish national context is analysed, capturing periods
  of both securitization and de-securitization of food. By
  understanding more about how food security has been part of defence
  and preparedness policy debates historically, we contribute to a
  better understanding of the conditions affecting the current state
  of food security and preparedness policy in Sweden, which hopefully
  can inform the broader understanding of this issue in the Nordic
  countries.

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