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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... ? Rethinking Food-System Localization 8 / The Politics of Sustainability and Sustenance 9 / Working Toward Sustainability and Sustenance Notes References Index AFI alternative food institution AFL-CIO American Federation of Labor and.
... Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations Agricultural Labor Relations Act Biologically Integrated Farming Systems Biologically Integrated Orchard Systems CalSAWG California Sustainable Agriculture Working Group CANFIT California ...
... labor, California agriculture has always depended on seasonally employed migratory workers (Martin et al. 1988). More than 85 percent of all of the labor that produces the state's crops and livestock is performed by hired workers ...
... labor exploitation is the rule. The American agrifood system is one that embodies and has depended upon extremely unequal material and social relations among groups of people. For example, in California some of the richest agricultural ...
... labor-organizing efforts as far back as the early 1900s. Difficult working conditions are endemic throughout the food and agriculture sector, not just in the fields. Workers in the produce and meat-processing industries are often poorly ...
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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 | |