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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... example, one-fourth of children lived in poverty, even though 75 percent of them lived in a household with at least one working adult (O'Hare 1988). Since the need for food is related to biology, not economics, a person with a low ...
... example, high-fructose corn syrup has replaced sugar in many items such as soft drinks, cookies, and gum. By 1985 the use of corn sweeteners surpassed that of cane and beet sugar ( USDA 1996). These changes represent a confluence of the ...
... example, pesticides are responsible for the growth of secondary pest populations, which now comprise twenty-four of the state's twenty-five major crop pests (Metcalf and Luckmann 1982). While pesticide use in the United States increased ...
... examples illustrates the severity of environmental problems in the agrifood system. Not only is agriculture ... example, in California some of the richest agricultural areas are home to some of the poorest people in the entire ...
... example, vegetarians protested public health recommendations for a heavily meat-based diet (Belasco 1989). At the end of the nineteenth century, the industrialization of the food system gave rise to efforts at reforming such practices ...
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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 | |