Feeding, Agrifood System, and Consumers: New Connections for Rural Development

Abstract

We propose to address the connection and disconnection movement of the supply chain, given by the relationships mediated by food products. We want to demonstrate that the existence of hegemony in the global agrifood system created a distance between those who produce and those who consume, with consequences for both sides; thus generating critic and response movements that propose new approach relationships between these spheres. On the other hand, there is a chasm between production and consumption from a theoretical/analytical point of view, and the sociology of feeding may be considered as a potential linking field to understand these dynamics. There is the need to highlight feeding, agrifood systems, and consumption in rural development studies.