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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... action, whether on farms, in nongovernmental organizations, in laboratories, or in agrifood businesses, rarely have ... actions such as the mobilization of resources, organizational methods, and campaign strategies. For many sociologists ...
... actions. In the first phase of this research, we focused on the leaders, since leadership is considered to be a crucial ingredient in the trajectory and success of these organizations. Through her work with numerous community-based food ...
... action is a political ecological framework in which causes of and solutions to problems in the agrifood system are seen as both natural and social. There is a narrow, and permeable, boundary between residual and emergent—the old and the ...
... alternative agrifood advocates pursue the day-to-day actions in which they are engaged. It is not critical in the sense of criticizing people or their efforts as they Sustainability and Sustenance in the Agrifood System 19.
... action intent upon easing the plight of farmers and to the creation of political parties such as the Populists and the Greenbacks. These parties saw the power of the banks, railroads, and monopolies as central to the economic problems ...
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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 |