03297nam 2200697Ia 450 991045610690332120200520144314.01-280-71744-097866107174461-55250-062-4(CKB)111056486874934(EBL)266312(OCoLC)243500540(SSID)ssj0000156724(PQKBManifestationID)11160020(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000156724(PQKBWorkID)10130847(PQKB)10840643(MiAaPQ)EBC266312(MiAaPQ)EBC3244389(Au-PeEL)EBL266312(CaPaEBR)ebr10137745(CaONFJC)MIL71744(OCoLC)729251074(EXLCZ)9911105648687493419990526d1999 ua 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFor hunger-proof cities[electronic resource] sustainable urban food systems /edited by Mustafa Koc ... [et al.]Ottawa International Development Research Centrec19991 online resource (249 p.)"Most of the papers in this volume were presented at the International Conference on Sustainable Urban Food Systems...at Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto"--P. 4.0-88936-882-1 Includes bibliographical references.Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Food Security Is a Global Concern; Part 1. The Concept of Urban Food Security; Part 2. Local Food Systems; Part 3. Urban and Community Agriculture; Part 4. Accessibility and Urban Food Distribution; Part 5. Ecological and Health Concerns; Part 6. Engendering the Food System; Part 7. The Politics of Food and Food Policy; Part 8. Toward Food Democracy; Appendix 1. Abstracts; Appendix 2. Contributing Authors; Appendix 3. Acronyms and Abbreviations;For Hunger-proof Cities is the first book to fully examine food security from an urban perspective. It examines existing local food systems and ways to improve the availability and accessibility of food for city dwellers. It looks at methods to improve community-supported agriculture and cooperation between urban and rural populations. It explores what existing marketing and distribution structures can do to improve accessibility and what the emerging forms of food-distribution systems are, and how they can contribute to alleviating hunger in the cities. Finally, the book discusses the underlyFood supplyCongressesFood supplyDeveloping countriesCongressesNutrition policyCongressesSustainable agricultureCongressesUrban healthCongressesElectronic books.Food supplyFood supplyNutrition policySustainable agricultureUrban health338.19363.8Koc̦ Mustafa1057326International Development Research Centre (Canada)MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456106903321For hunger-proof cities2492536UNINA