Decolonising Food Geography: Land, food heritage and power

One of the most commented-upon aspects of the agri-industrial food system is how unrooted it is; despite spreading its tentacles into communities of every description the world over, it fundamentally belongs nowhere. It seems reasonable then as we seek alternatives with different characteristics, to do so in places where we can find roots. But roots are themselves problematic and often contested, as much of Western society has been reminded over the past couple of years; how then can we chart a way forward for food that avoids the Scylla of faceless capital on the one hand and the Charybdis of a romanticized past on the other?