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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... distributed among different groups of people. Those most likely to suffer from food insecurity are people of color, the elderly, the disabled, inner-city residents, farmworkers, and children. Of 31 million people considered food ...
... distribution of food is the outgrowth of a highly visible, intensive relation between people and the environment. Agriculture's direct dependence upon natural resources and processes makes it impossible to obscure environmental ...
... distribution of control and ownership in the U.S. food and agriculture industry, a level of concentration that affords workers little power to change either their working conditions or their jobs. The U.S. food and agriculture system is ...
... at the federal rather than local level. Community food security activists are also concerned about the nutritional quality of people's food. Food banks and government commodity programs distribute the surplus from the regular food.
Sustainability and Sustenance in the American Agrifood System Patricia Allen. government commodity programs distribute the surplus from the regular food system, not necessarily food that contributes to a balanced and healthy diet. Table ...
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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 | |