Geographies of food : global visions of healthy and unhealthy food / Harrison Esam Awuh, Samuel Agyekum, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Esam Harrison, editor.

Agyekum Samuel, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Springer geography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food habits--Social aspects.

Food habits.

Food supply.

Food habits--Environmental aspects.

Cultural geography.

Sustainable development.

Physical Description:

xvi, 215pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2024]

Summary:

The book offers a multi-scale, epistemically diverse, and sense-making perspectives on the food system. The book argues that sustainable food system transformation is a complex proposition that can better thrive upon the inclusion of consumer perspectives. The book brings together scholarly works of critical scholars and practitioners who bring to bear the uniqueness of places, cultures, histories and interactions in the milieu of food.

Contents:

Intro

Foreword

Preface

About This Book

Contents

Editors and Contributors

1 Introduction to Understandings of Healthy and Unhealthy Food

Introduction

Consumers to Play a Central Role in Healthy Food Transformations

The Problem of Insufficient Attention to Inclusion

Inclusive Perspectives as the Way Forward

Theoretical Framework: Place, Space and Sensemaking

Sensemaking

Significance and Uniqueness of This Book

Chapter Layout

Conclusion

References

2 Meanings and Visions of Healthy and Unhealthy Food in Flevoland, the Netherlands

Introduction

The Context-Almere

Material and Methods

Photovoice

Online Surveys

Findings

Meanings of Healthy and Unhealthy Food in Flevoland Are Largely Nutrition-Based

A Desired Healthier Food Future for People in Flevoland is One with Less Consumption of Meat

Discussion

3 Cameroon: Land of Good Food, Agriculture, and Various Visions of Good and Bad Food

Study Area

Data Collection

Data Analysis

Understandings of Healthy and Unhealthy Food in Cameroon Are Predominantly Nutrition-Based

Cameroonians See Organic Food as the Future of a Healthier Food System

Climate Change is Identified as a Critical Threat to Future Food Security in Cameroon

4 Achieving Food System Transformation Through an Inclusive Understanding of Healthy and Unhealthy Food: The Case of Winneba, Ghana

Positionality of the Researcher

Healthy/Unhealthy Food is Predominantly Understood to Be Based on How Balanced the Diet is in Terms of Nutrition

Healthy or Unhealthy Food Meanings Are Linked to Food Hygiene

People Are Pessimistic About Their Food Future

People See a Bleak Future for Healthy Food in Ghana Because of Rising Food Costs

5 Perceptions of Healthy Diets and Food Futures in Veneto, Northern Italy

Respondents Have Diverse and Fairly Equally Significant Understandings of Healthy Food

Demography Plays an Important Role in Determining Venetian Understandings of Healthy and Unhealthy

Younger People Are Inclined Towards Biological Foods as Healthy Food

Older, Towards Non-processed Foods

Gender as a Determinant of Understandings of Healthy and Unhealthy Food

Participants Expressed Ambivalence in Their Visions of Food Futures

Limitations

6 Exploration of the Diverse Meanings Ascribed to Food by Consumers in Eastern Visayas, Philippines

Study Area: Eastern Visayas

Material and Methods

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9783031498725

3031498720

OCLC:

1407094332

Publisher Number:

99995990826