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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... increased knowledge about the agrifood system and increased understanding that the system can be changed. Today's newspapers and newsrooms, the oracles of modern times, increasingly lead with stories about food and agriculture. 1 ...
... increasing consumer demand for pesticide-free, organic, non–genetically modified food has only strengthened the ties between them. Because the issues they address are so important, they have attracted a broad range of participants and ...
... increased workers' power or national liberation, as were “old” social movements.1 There is nothing new about ... increasing in strength and importance; they inspire and mobilize people more than the “old” ones do (Frank and Fuentes 1990) ...
... increased dramatically since the first part of the 1900s, and Americans on average spend only about 10 percent of their incomes on food—a much lower percentage than in any other country. We have access to a much more diverse diet than ...
... increased 1,000 percent between the 1940s and the 1980s, crop losses to insect pests also increased by almost 50 percent (Pimentel et al. 1991). The pesticides used extensively in modern agricultural production damage wildlife ...
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Institutional Integration and Construction | 51 |
4 Discourses Epistemologies and Practices of Sustainability and Sustenance | 79 |
5 Reflections on Ideologies Embedded in Alternative Agrifood Movements | 115 |
6 Participation and Power in Alternative Agrifood Movements and Institutions | 143 |
7 Politics of Complacency? Rethinking FoodSystem Localization | 165 |
8 The Politics of Sustainability and Sustenance | 181 |
9 Working Toward Sustainability and Sustenance | 205 |
References | 219 |
Index | 245 |
Back Cover | 261 |