Week 15

 These articles of this week touch the subject of food and property, and how they work and should work in the international system. The "food miles" author interviews CSA communities, showing that choosing to eat locally is not just a matter of respecting the environment, but local food is also more tasteful, more fresh, and help the local communities. This article challenges the arguments that people choose to eat locally just because, showing that the chose is more complex than argued, and that many factors like culture and social practices are important as well. 

 Then, the "local trap" article exposes the problems with just claiming local food as better, especially in comparison with global systems. The author suggests that sustainability and equity are not linked to an specific space, local or global, but to the systems, the people and the structures. For this article, we can see that local solutions are not necessarily better, but we need to evaluate the systems and contexts to then plan policies that will bring true results. 

Finally, the "piracy" article also challenges the assumptions of property, but in this case not necessarily about food, but intellectual one. Here, it is claimed that although patents are made to protect innovators, many wealthy countries "steal" ideas and traditions from less developed countries, those who use this practices but didn't feel the need to licentiate, and claimed the ownership of them. By that, they make the access more expensive and less accessible, reinforcing inequality. At the end, the author claims for a better approach, when innovations can be balanced accessibility.