Together at the Table: Sustainability and Sustenance in the American Agrifood SystemPenn State Press, 26/08/2015 - 272 من الصفحات Everywhere you look people are more aware of what they eat and where their food comes from. In a cafeteria in Los Angeles, children make their lunchtime food choices at fresh-fruit and salad bars stocked with local foods. In a community garden in New York, low-income residents are producing organically grown fruits and vegetables for their own use and to sell at market. In Madison, Wisconsin, shoppers select their food from a bounty of choices at a vibrant farmers’ market. Together at the Table is about people throughout the United States who are building successful alternatives to the contemporary agrifood system and their prospects for the future. At the heart of these efforts are the movements for sustainable agriculture and community food security. Both movements seek to reconstruct the agrifood system—the food production chain, from the growing of crops to food production and distribution—to become more ecologically sound, economically viable, and socially just. Allen describes the ways in which people working in these movements view the world and how they see their place in challenging and reshaping the agrifood system. She also shows how ideas and practices of sustainable agriculture and community food security have already woven their way into the dominant agrifood institutions. Allen explores the possibilities this process may hold for improving social and environmental justice in the American agrifood system. Together at the Table is an important reminder that much work still remains to be done. Now that the ideas and priorities of alternative food movements have taken hold, it is time for the next—even more challenging—step. Alternative agrifood movements must acknowledge and address the deeper structural and cultural patterns that constrain the long-term resolution of social and environmental problems in the agrifood system. |
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... interest groups or affinity groups. This raises the question: What is a social movement? While social scientists devote much ... interests and a common identity. The issue of self-perception is crucial to this definition. That is, if the ...
... interest in participating on their written questionnaires. While the information about alternative agrifood institutions in this book has been gathered from a number of sources using multiple methods, it is less inclusive in its ...
... interests are powerful in California, they may be less so than in other states where agriculture is a more significant part of the economy. While California is the nation's leading agricultural producer, farming and related activities ...
... interest rates), legal recognition of trade unions, and taxation on speculative real estate profits. Agrarian populism was revived in the late 1960s in defense of the family farm and traditional rural communities (de Janvry 1980). The ...
... interests, but now included groups representing the “New Agenda” (Paarlberg 1980), such as those concerned about the environment, food safety, nutrition, and government expenditures. An increased public concern with environmental ...
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Discourses Epistemologies and Practices of Sustainability and Sustenance | |
Participation and Power in Alternative Agrifood Movements and Institutions | |
Politics of Complacency? Rethinking FoodSystem Localization | |
Working Toward Sustainability and Sustenance | |
Notes | |