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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... farm operators are nonwhite (Census Bureau 1987). In contrast, California's farm labor force is composed almost exclusively of ethnic minorities (Peck 1989). Alternative agrifood movements have arisen in response to these kinds of food ...
... farm and the importance of agriculture to U.S. economic security (Browne 1988). In 1978 they organized some of the largest farm demonstrations in history when thirty thousand farmers marched in Washington, D.C., to protest American farm ...
... farm labor conditions won by these movements were stalled in 1942 with the advent of the federal bracero program (Mooney and Majka 1995). This program brought temporary Mexican workers to the United States to work in the fields. This ...
... farm bill discussions for the first time.2 Many of the groups that became active during that time are even stronger today. Some focus on single issues such as food safety, farmland protection, pesticides, farm labor, or organic farming ...
... farm policies of the 1930s made some overtures toward the importance of soil conservation, although they were developed primarily as supply management programs.3 Despite early recognition of problems of soil erosion and pesticide ...
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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 | |