Imagining sustainable food systems [[electronic resource] ] : theory and practice / / edited by Alison Blay-Palmer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785270003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Farnham, Surrey ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2010
• ISBN: 1-315-58790-4; 1-317-11863-4; 1-317-11862-6; 1-282-77386-0; 9786612773860; 0-7546-9609-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): Blay-PalmerAlison <1961->
• Disciplina: 630
• Soggetti: Sustainable agriculture; Food supply - International cooperation; Food security
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Part 1: Interrogating Sustainable Food Systems; 1 Imagining Sustainable Food Systems; 2 Conceptualizing and Creating Sustainable Food Systems: How Interdisciplinarity can Help; 3 Sustainability: A Tool for Food System Reform?; Part 2: Inclusion and Exclusion in Sustainable Food Systems; 4 Greening the Realm: Sustainable Food Chains and the Public Plate; 5 Thinking About Labour in Alternative Food Systems; 6 The Urban Food Desert: Spatial Inequality or Opportunity for Change?; Part 3: The Case for Sustainable Food Systems7 Food Systems Planning and Sustainable Cities and Regions: The Role of the Firm in Sustainable Food Capitalism; 8 The Nexus between Alternative Food Systems and Entrepreneurism: Three Local Stories; 9 Scaling Up: Bringing Public Institutions and Food Service Corporations into the Project for a Local, Sustainable Food System in Ontario; 10 Food Policy Encounters of a Third Kind: How the Toronto Food Policy Council Socializes for Sustain-; Ability; 11 Food Insecurity in the Land of Plenty: The Windermere Valley Paradox; 12 Imagining Sustainable Food Systems: The Path to Regenerative Food SystemsIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: In the context of the global food crisis, a growing consensus is emerging among academics, health practitioners, farmers, policy-makers, businesses and consumers about the merits of building an alternative food system. Using a wide range of case studies, this book provides a critical overview, showing how and where theory and practice can converge to produce more sustainable food systems.