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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... urban agriculture and community gardens, food policy advocacy, farm-to-school programs, community-supported agriculture, and farmers' markets. Contacts with these organizations resulted in a list of thirtyseven that were still in ...
... production. Given that food is treated as a commodity, it is axiomatic that the primary cause of food insecurity is poverty. For many, the economic picture in much of both urban and rural America is bleak, with wages often.
Sustainability and Sustenance in the American Agrifood System Patricia Allen. both urban and rural America is bleak, with wages often too low to keep many workers out of poverty, particularly women and ethnic minorities. In rural America ...
... urban and consumption issues. For example, in a review of the literature on agricultural sustainability, Lockeretz (1988) identifies the problems addressed as environmental contamination by pesticides, plant nutrients, and sediments ...
... urban Americans. With his publication of The Unsettling of America in 1988, Wendell Berry persuasively argued that agriculture was as much about human culture and values as it was about producing food (Berry 1988). This book, along with ...
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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 | |
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