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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... 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 income needs to spend a higher percentage of his or her income to meet ...
... percent between the 1940s and the 1980s, crop losses to insect pests also increased by almost 50 percent (Pimentel et al. 1991). The pesticides used extensively in modern agricultural production damage wildlife, beneficial insects ...
... percent of U.S. farms with the highest sales employ over half of the farm labor (Slesinger and Pfeffer 1992). And at the end of the workday, many farmworkers do not have a home to which to retreat. The only national data on farmworker ...
... percent of American farms received 60 percent of the net cash farm income in 1992 (usda 1994). As for marketing, at the beginning of the 1990s two companies controlled 50 percent of grain exports; three companies slaughtered nearly 80 ...
... percent of net farm income. At this time American farmers' largest production expense was interest payment on farm loans (Wilkening and Gilbert 1987). When demand fell, farmers saw not only their markets dry up, but the value of their ...
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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 |