This article aims to advance understandings of food systems functioning at a national level and explore ways for its transformation towards sustainability and social justice. Integrating food regime theory from political economy with social metabolism from ecological economics, and surplus/reproduction from feminist economics, we develop a novel research framework which combines six dimensions—food systems governance, monetary agrifood chain, socio-metabolic agrifood chain, surplus/reproduction, socioecological impacts, and conflicts & levers of change—encompassing 34 elements linked through six key connections. The research framework highlights the role of cheap food for the social reproduction of the labouring population in capitalism. Since national states play important roles in maintaining food regimes, we conducted a critical literature review through which we identified the main contributions and limitations of studies of food regimes at the national level aimed at foreseeing exit ways beyond the current corporate food regime. This regime is one of the main drives of the overcoming of planetary boundaries. An agroecological transition and food system change is needed to address this socio-ecological crisis, and this requires new food polices at a national level as well. This is why we consider it essential to integrate social metabolism with the approaches of food regimes and surplus/reproduction.

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在国家范围内调查粮食系统的研究框架


本文旨在促进对国家层面粮食系统运作的理解，并探索其向可持续性和社会正义转型的方法。我们将政治经济学的食品制度理论与生态经济学的社会新陈代谢，以及女权主义经济学的剩余/再生产相结合，我们开发了一个新的研究框架，该框架结合了六个维度——食品系统治理、货币农业食品链、社会代谢农业食品链、剩余/再生产、社会生态影响以及冲突和变革杠杆——包括通过六个关键连接链接的34个元素。该研究框架强调了廉价食品在资本主义中对劳动人口社会再生产的作用。由于国家在维持食品制度方面发挥着重要作用，我们进行了一项重要的文献综述，通过该文献综述，我们确定了国家层面食品制度研究的主要贡献和局限性，旨在预见超越当前企业食品制度的退出方式。这种制度是克服地球界限的主要驱动力之一。需要农业生态转型和粮食系统变革来应对这一社会生态危机，这也需要在国家层面制定新的粮食政策。这就是为什么我们认为将社会新陈代谢与食物制度和剩余/再生产的方法相结合至关重要。