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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... humans. Food in the United States has become almost a negation of itself, either because it is absent, harmful to our health, or because it is virtual in the sense that any nutritional content has been neutralized. Often crops are no ...
... humans. Since less than 0.1 percent of pesticides applied in the United States actually reach the pests to which they are targeted (Pimentel and Levitan 1986), pesticides end up in the bodies of wildlife or the water people drink ...
... humans must cease the wanton destruction of nature. Marx considered “the soil and the worker” to be the fundamental sources of wealth (Marx 1976). Karl Kautsky (1988) understood the concept of diminishing returns to increased ...
... human life. During this period sustainability came to be accepted as a mediating term that bridged the gap between developers and environmentalists (O'Riordan 1988). Traditionally, in their quest for economic improvement, developers ...
... human culture and values as it was about producing food (Berry 1988). This book, along with the farm crisis, led to the general public's embracing the ideal of the small family farm. A government report framed sustainable agriculture as ...
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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 | |