Imagining sustainable food systems : theory and practice / edited by Alison Blay-Palmer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blay-Palmer, Alison, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable agriculture.

Food supply--International cooperation.

Food supply.

Food security.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the context of the global food crisis, a growing consensus is emerging among academics, health practitioners, farmers, policy-makers, businesses and consumers about the merits of building an alternative food system. Using a wide range of case studies, this book provides a critical overview, showing how and where theory and practice can converge to produce more sustainable food systems.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Part 1: Interrogating Sustainable Food Systems; 1 Imagining Sustainable Food Systems; 2 Conceptualizing and Creating Sustainable Food Systems: How Interdisciplinarity can Help; 3 Sustainability: A Tool for Food System Reform?; Part 2: Inclusion and Exclusion in Sustainable Food Systems; 4 Greening the Realm: Sustainable Food Chains and the Public Plate; 5 Thinking About Labour in Alternative Food Systems; 6 The Urban Food Desert: Spatial Inequality or Opportunity for Change?

Part 3: The Case for Sustainable Food Systems7 Food Systems Planning and Sustainable Cities and Regions: The Role of the Firm in Sustainable Food Capitalism; 8 The Nexus between Alternative Food Systems and Entrepreneurism: Three Local Stories; 9 Scaling Up: Bringing Public Institutions and Food Service Corporations into the Project for a Local, Sustainable Food System in Ontario; 10 Food Policy Encounters of a Third Kind: How the Toronto Food Policy Council Socializes for Sustain-Ability; 11 Food Insecurity in the Land of Plenty: The Windermere Valley Paradox

12 Imagining Sustainable Food Systems: The Path to Regenerative Food SystemsIndex

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-315-58790-4

1-317-11863-4

1-317-11862-6

1-282-77386-0

9786612773860

0-7546-9609-X

9781315587905

OCLC:

669127016