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Remaking the North American Food System
Author | : C. Clare Hinrichs,Thomas A. Lyson |
Publsiher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780803215788 |
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Examines the resurgence of interest in rebuilding the links between agricultural production and food consumption. With examples from Puerto Rico to Oregon to Quebec, this work offers a North American perspective attuned to trends toward globalization at the level of markets and governance and shows how globalization affects specific localities.
Local Food Systems in Old Industrial Regions
Author | : Jay D. Gatrell,Paula S. Ross |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2016-05-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781317103776 |
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In recent years there has been an explosion of interest in local food systems-among policy makers, planners, and public health professionals, as well as environmentalists, community developers, academics, farmers, and ordinary citizens. While most local food systems share common characteristics, the chapters in this book explore the unique challenges and opportunities of local food systems located within mature and/or declining industrial regions. Local food systems have the potential to provide residents with a supply of safe and nutritious food; such systems also have the potential to create much-needed employment opportunities. However, challenges are numerous and include developing local markets of a sufficient scale, adequately matching supply and demand, and meeting the environmental challenges of finding safe growing locations. Interrogating the scale, scope, and economic context of local food systems in aging industrialized cities, this book provides a foundation for the development of new sub-fields in economic, urban, and agricultural geographies that focus on local food systems. The book represents a first attempt to provide a systematic picture of the opportunities and challenges facing the development of local food systems in old industrial regions.
Toward Sustainable Agricultural Systems in the 21st Century
Author | : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources,Committee on Twenty-First Century Systems Agriculture |
Publsiher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 599 |
Release | : 2010-06-25 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780309157490 |
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In the last 20 years, there has been a remarkable emergence of innovations and technological advances that are generating promising changes and opportunities for sustainable agriculture, yet at the same time the agricultural sector worldwide faces numerous daunting challenges. Not only is the agricultural sector expected to produce adequate food, fiber, and feed, and contribute to biofuels to meet the needs of a rising global population, it is expected to do so under increasingly scarce natural resources and climate change. Growing awareness of the unintended impacts associated with some agricultural production practices has led to heightened societal expectations for improved environmental, community, labor, and animal welfare standards in agriculture. Toward Sustainable Agricultural Systems in the 21st Century assesses the scientific evidence for the strengths and weaknesses of different production, marketing, and policy approaches for improving and reducing the costs and unintended consequences of agricultural production. It discusses the principles underlying farming systems and practices that could improve the sustainability. It also explores how those lessons learned could be applied to agriculture in different regional and international settings, with an emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa. By focusing on a systems approach to improving the sustainability of U.S. agriculture, this book can have a profound impact on the development and implementation of sustainable farming systems. Toward Sustainable Agricultural Systems in the 21st Century serves as a valuable resource for policy makers, farmers, experts in food production and agribusiness, and federal regulatory agencies.
Just Food
Author | : James E. McWilliams |
Publsiher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2009-08-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0316052639 |
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We suffer today from food anxiety, bombarded as we are with confusing messages about how to eat an ethical diet. Should we eat locally? Is organic really better for the environment? Can genetically modified foods be good for you? JUST FOOD does for fresh food what Fast Food Nation (Houghton Mifflin, 2001) did for fast food, challenging conventional views, and cutting through layers of myth and misinformation. For instance, an imported tomato is more energy-efficient than a local greenhouse-grown tomato. And farm-raised freshwater fish may soon be the most sustainable source of protein. Informative and surprising, JUST FOOD tells us how to decide what to eat, and how our choices can help save the planet and feed the world.
Saving More Than Seeds
Author | : Catherine Phillips |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2016-04-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781317059417 |
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Saving More Than Seeds advances understandings of seed-people relations, with particular focus on seed saving. The practice of reusing and exchanging seeds provides foundation for food production and allows humans and seed to adapt together in dynamic socionatural conditions. But the practice and its practitioners are easily taken for granted, even as they are threatened by neoliberalisation. Combining original ethnographic research with investigation of an evolving corporate seed order, this book reveals seed saving not only as it occurs in fields and gardens but also as it associates with genebanking, genetic engineering, intellectual property rights, and agrifood regulations. Drawing on diverse social sciences literatures, Phillips illustrates ongoing practices of thinking, feeling, and acting with seeds, raising questions about what seed-people relations should accomplish and how different ways of relating might be pursued to change collective futures.
Civic Agriculture
Author | : Thomas A. Lyson |
Publsiher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2012-05-22 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781611683035 |
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A engaging analysis of food production in the United States emphasizing that sustainable agricultural development is important to community health.
The Global Food System
Author | : William D. Schanbacher |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2014-07-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781440829123 |
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This detailed analysis of the global food system looks at the way food is produced, distributed, and consumed in an effort to create a more equitable and healthful system worldwide. With large-scale famine afflicting regions around the globe and overconsumption and unhealthy eating habits destroying others, many are beginning to wonder if access to food is less of a class-based social problem and more of an ethical issue affecting the lives—and livelihoods—of people all over the world. This thoughtful text provides a thorough examination of the factors contributing to this global concern, exploring the complexities of international food supply and demand as well as the efforts to bring about a more just global food system. Through this groundbreaking volume, author and educator Will Schanbacher sheds light on flaws in the current structure and suggests ways to achieve a more balanced approach. He considers the economics, politics, and activism behind and involved in the production, distribution, and consumption of the global food system. In an effort to illuminate many problems associated with hunger, inequality, and injustice in the food system, the book also offers many potential strategies and solutions for making a more healthy, sustainable, and equitable world. Chapters contain both theoretical models and concrete practices for food security and offer strategies for creating an equitable system.
The Life of Cheese
Author | : Heather Paxson |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780520270183 |
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The politics of food, land, and labor are examined through this anthropological study of American artisanal cheesemaking.