The visible hands that feed : responsibility and growth in the food sector / Ruzana Liburkina.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Liburkina, Ruzana, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food supply.

Food security.

Food industry and trade.

Other Title:

Visible Hands That Feed

Place of Publication:

University of Nebraska Press 2023

Summary:

""The Visible Hands That Feed" approaches the food sector against the backdrop of its pivotal role for social and ecological relations to trace the potentials and limitations for sustainable change from within. This is accomplished through an in-depth exploration of the practices, visions, concerns, and relationships that unfold at the very locations where food is grown, processed, stored, and served"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1.

Navigating food supply chains to find seeds of sustainable futures

2.

Opposing agendas and fragmented realities in the food sector

3.

The afterlife of consumption: caught in demand?

4.

The inconsistencies of audit culture in the food sector

5.

Perseverant partial responsibilities for others

6.

Strategic scalability of social connectedness

7.

Embracing and rejecting the vision of growth in practice

8.

How compromises compromise totalizing visions

9.

Implications for rethinking and reshaping food systems.

ISBN:

9781496236692

1496236696