Farm to fork’s discourse on resources and population

Mendonça, Pedro; Alves, Fátima

Publication

Farm to fork’s discourse on resources and population

2025-02-24Preprint

datacite.subject.fos	Ciências Sociais
datacite.subject.fos	Ciências Sociais::Sociologia
datacite.subject.sdg	12:Produção e Consumo Sustentáveis
dc.contributor.author	Mendonça, Pedro
dc.contributor.author	Alves, Fátima
dc.date.accessioned	2026-01-13T17:16:00Z
dc.date.available	2026-01-13T17:16:00Z
dc.date.issued	2025-02-24
dc.description.abstract	Farm to Fork (F2F) is an ongoing policy initiative that represents the vision for reforming the European agri-food system. The F2F text, as most policy texts, belongs to a discourse, i.e. a positioned way of representing the world, and constitutes a practical argument over what to do about food and the environment. This article’s goal is twofold: to critically question the internal logic of the F2F text and to sketch an explanatory critique that characterizes its discourse, ideological resonance, and likely socio-ecological effects. We use a simple Critical Discourse Analysis technique to map F2F’s semiotic structure and single out three key mental categories – _food affordability_, _environmental crisis_ and _adequate technology _– that represent crucial components of its practical argument. Next, we describe how the F2F construes the ecology of agriculture and food production/consumption through these categories. The F2F’s underlying ontology of resources and population is teased out by stressing the continuities and discontinuities with Malthusianism and neo-Malthusianism, and the specific articulation of these components is identified as green neo-Malthusianism, a discourse that resonates strongly with growth-bound democracies and with the notion of research as service.	eng
dc.identifier.citation	Mendonça, P., & Alves, F. (2025). Farm to Fork’s Discourse on Resources and Population (Open Peer Review No. 8W7FWG). Qeios. https://doi.org/10.32388/8W7FWG
dc.identifier.doi	10.32388/8W7FWG
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/20795
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.peerreviewed	yes
dc.relation.hasversion	https://www.qeios.com/read/8W7FWG
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	Farm to Fork
dc.subject	policy
dc.subject	agri-food system
dc.title	Farm to fork’s discourse on resources and population	eng
dc.type	preprint
dspace.entity.type	Publication
oaire.citation.endPage	32
oaire.citation.startPage	1
oaire.citation.title	Qeios
oaire.version	http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85
person.familyName	Alves
person.givenName	Fátima
person.identifier.ciencia-id	F41D-6E75-A58D
person.identifier.orcid	0000-0003-2600-8652
relation.isAuthorOfPublication	01db740c-0644-4274-a03f-4c348c8b8ac5
relation.isAuthorOfPublication.latestForDiscovery	01db740c-0644-4274-a03f-4c348c8b8ac5