Community Food Initiatives


Community Food Initiatives
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Community Food Initiatives


Community Food Initiatives
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Author : Oona Morrow
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-06-22

Community Food Initiatives written by Oona Morrow and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-22 with Nature categories.


This book examines a diverse range of community food initiatives in light of their everyday practices, innovations, and contestations. While community food initiatives aim to tackle issues like food security, food waste, or food poverty, it is a cause for concern for many when they are framed as the next big "solution" to the problems of the current industrialised food system. They have been critiqued for being too neoliberal, elitist, and localist; for not challenging structural inequalities (e.g. racism, privilege, exclusion, colonialism, capitalism); and for reproducing these inequalities within their own contexts. This edited volume examines the everyday realities of community food initiatives, focusing on both their hopes and their troubles, their limitations and failures, but also their best intentions, missions, and models, alongside their capacity to create hope in difficult times. The stories presented in this book are grounded in contemporary theoretical debates on neoliberalism, diverse economies, food justice, community and inclusion, and social innovation, and help to sharpen these as conceptual tools for interrogating community food initiatives as sites of both hope and trouble. The novelty of this volume is its focus on the everyday doings of these initiatives in particular places and contexts, with different constraints and opportunities. This grounded, relational, and place-based approach allows us to move beyond more traditional framings in which community food initiatives are either applauded for their potential or criticized for their limitations. It enables researchers and practitioners to explore how community food initiatives can realize their potential for creating alternative food futures and generates innovative pathways for theorising the mutual interplay of food production and consumption. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of critical food studies, food security, public health, and nutrition as well as human geographers, sociologists, and anthropologists with an interest in food.



Food In The Community


Food In The Community
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Author : Hebs Staff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001-12-01

Food In The Community written by Hebs Staff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-12-01 with categories.




Nourishing Communities


Nourishing Communities
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Author : Irena Knezevic
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-06-10

Nourishing Communities written by Irena Knezevic and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-10 with Social Science categories.


This edited volume builds on existing alternative food initiatives and food movements research to explore how a systems approach can bring about health and well-being through enhanced collaboration. Chapters describe the myriad ways community-driven actors work to foster food systems that are socially just, embed food in local economies, regenerate the environment and actively engage citizens. Drawing on case studies, interviews and Participatory Action Research projects, the editors share the stories behind community-driven efforts to develop sustainable food systems, and present a critical assessment of both the tensions and the achievements of these initiatives. The volume is unique in its focus on approaches and methodologies that both support and recognize the value of community-based practices. Throughout the book the editors identify success stories, challenges and opportunities that link practitioner experience to critical debates in food studies, practice and policy. By making current practices visible to scholars, the volume speaks to people engaged in the co-creation of knowledge, and documents a crucial point in the evolution of a rapidly expanding and dynamic sustainable food systems movement. Entrenched food insecurity, climate change induced crop failures, rural-urban migration, escalating rates of malnutrition related diseases, and aging farm populations are increasingly common obstacles for communities around the world. Merging private, public and civil society spheres, the book gives voice to actors from across the sustainable food system movement including small businesses, not-for-profits, eaters, farmers and government. Insights into the potential for market restructuring, knowledge sharing, planning and bridging civic-political divides come from across Canada, the United States and Mexico, making this a key resource for policy-makers, students, citizens, and practitioners.



Good Food Strong Communities


Good Food Strong Communities
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Author : Steve Ventura
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2017-12

Good Food Strong Communities written by Steve Ventura and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12 with Political Science categories.


Good Food, Strong Communities shares ideas and stories about efforts to improve food security in large urban areas of the United States by strengthening community food systems. It draws on five years of collaboration between a research team composed of the University of Wisconsin, Growing Power, the Michael Fields Agricultural Institute, and more than thirty organizations on the front lines of this work. Here, activists and scholars talk about what's working and what still needs to be done to ensure that everyone has access to readily available, affordable, appropriate, and acceptable food. This book helps readers understand how a food system functions and how individual and community initiatives can lessen the problems associated with an industrialized food system.--Back cover.



Food Freedom Community


Food Freedom Community
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Author : Isa Pearl Ritchie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-05-17

Food Freedom Community written by Isa Pearl Ritchie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-17 with categories.


Food isn't just what we eat, it connects us to our family, our community and the world around us. We live in a challenging time in history, facing unprecedented global crises, and yet, local food initiatives by small farmers, community workers, and activists offer solutions to these large complex problems. Solutions at the local level can give us personal and community agency, connecting us with one another and inspiring new ways of thinking, sharing and creating value.The problems with global corporate capitalist exploitation are becoming more and more evident. Local food and strong community networks can provide alternatives to this destructive system, as well as many wider benefits for society and the environment. This book shows alternative food networks, food sovereignty, and social economics, through case-studies or real people and communities in both urban and rural New Zealand, as well as a global lens. These inspiring stories and helpful insights provide a compass that can help us to navigate towards a more equitable and sustainable future.



Celebrating Outcomes


Celebrating Outcomes
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Author : Community Food and Health (Scotland)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011

Celebrating Outcomes written by Community Food and Health (Scotland) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Health promotion categories.




Food Security In The High North


Food Security In The High North
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Author : Kamrul Hossain
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-09-09

Food Security In The High North written by Kamrul Hossain and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-09 with Architecture categories.


This book explores the challenges facing food security, sustainability, sovereignty, and supply chains in the Arctic, with a specific focus on Indigenous Peoples. Offering multidisciplinary insights and with a particular focus on populations in the European High North region, the book highlights the importance of accessible and sustainable traditional foods for the dietary needs of local and Indigenous Peoples. It focuses on foods and natural products that are unique to this region and considers how they play a significant role towards food security and sovereignty. The book captures the tremendous complexity facing populations here as they strive to maintain sustainable food systems – both subsistent and commercial – and regain sovereignty over traditional food production policies. A range of issues are explored including food contamination risks, due to increasing human activities in the region, such as mining, to changing livelihoods and gender roles in the maintenance of traditional food security and sovereignty. The book also considers processing methods that combine indigenous and traditional knowledge to convert the traditional foods, that are harvested and hunted, into local foods. This book offers a broader understanding of food security and sovereignty and will be of interest to academics, scholars and policy makers working in food studies; geography and environmental studies; agricultural studies; sociology; anthropology; political science; health studies and biology.



Building Community Food Webs


Building Community Food Webs
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Author : Ken Meter
language : en
Publisher: Island Press
Release Date : 2021-04-29

Building Community Food Webs written by Ken Meter and has been published by Island Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-29 with Social Science categories.


Our current food system has decimated rural communities and confined the choices of urban consumers. Even while America continues to ramp up farm production to astounding levels, net farm income is now lower than at the onset of the Great Depression, and one out of every eight Americans faces hunger. But a healthier and more equitable food system is possible. In Building Community Food Webs, Ken Meter shows how grassroots food and farming leaders across the U.S. are tackling these challenges by constructing civic networks. Overturning extractive economic structures, these inspired leaders are engaging low-income residents, farmers, and local organizations in their quest to build stronger communities. Community food webs strive to build health, wealth, capacity, and connection. Their essential element is building greater respect and mutual trust, so community members can more effectively empower themselves and address local challenges. Farmers and researchers may convene to improve farming practices collaboratively. Health clinics help clients grow food for themselves and attain better health. Food banks engage their customers to challenge the root causes of poverty. Municipalities invest large sums to protect farmland from development. Developers forge links among local businesses to strengthen economic trade. Leaders in communities marginalized by our current food system are charting a new path forward. Building Community Food Webs captures the essence of these efforts, underway in diverse places including Montana, Hawai‘i, Vermont, Arizona, Colorado, Indiana, and Minnesota. Addressing challenges as well as opportunities, Meter offers pragmatic insights for community food leaders and other grassroots activists alike.



Individual And Collective Learning Within Community Food Systems


Individual And Collective Learning Within Community Food Systems
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Author : Lael Sunrise Gerhart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005

Individual And Collective Learning Within Community Food Systems written by Lael Sunrise Gerhart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with categories.




Community Food Initiatives


Community Food Initiatives
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Author : Yanina Dutton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004

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