Digital Food Provisioning In Times Of Multiple Crises
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Digital Food Provisioning In Times Of Multiple Crises
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Author : Arne Dulsrud
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-03-23
Digital Food Provisioning In Times Of Multiple Crises written by Arne Dulsrud and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-23 with Social Science categories.
This edited collection brings together theoretical and empirical reflections on the role played by new technology and digital platforms in the provision of food. The way food is produced, distributed, consumed and disposed has significant consequences for the environment, affecting soil fertility, water and air quality, the state of the climate and the loss of biodiversity. Such negative effects are strictly related to the agro-industrial system of production and consumption, based on logic of low prices, high availability and high waste. This collection brings together a carefully curated range of insights from a team of twenty researchers coming from different fields working in different European universities engaged in the same project for more than three years. As a result, this book will appeal to people working on food studies and on sustainable food production and consumption, offering both conceptual-theoretical insights into contemporary food issues alongside empirical illustrations.
Digitalisation Of The Greening Supply Chain
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Author : Adam Kolinski
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2025-06-14
Digitalisation Of The Greening Supply Chain written by Adam Kolinski and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-06-14 with Science categories.
This book includes in-depth discussions on practical aspects of digitalisation of a supply chains and covers a vary array of actionable digitisation tools. The academic literature points to a serious lack of precision in the scope that the digitalisation of business processes should address. Studies on the digitalisation of businesses have pointed to the fragmented nature of their coverage and the lack of a comprehensive approach to the research conducted in this area. Digital transformation is described in academic and specialist literature as the integration of digital technology into all areas of business, which in turn is causing fundamental changes in the way a company delivers its services and business activities, cultural changes and a change from traditional business processes to new, innovative practices and solutions that are having an impact on the greening supply chains. It is important to note that digital transformation involves the introduction of innovation and new business models, incorporating the computerisation of resources, supply chain visibility and increasing the use of technology to improve the experience of employees, customers, suppliers, partners and supply chain stakeholders. Digitisation is a business trend that is becoming increasingly important. Books on this subject that have been published in recent years deal with the issue on a fragmented basis. It is not possible to find a publication that comprehensively presents opportunities for the digitisation of supply chains through the computerisation and standardisation of information flows, the integration of IT systems in supply chains and the application of modern technologies and innovations. Only the synergy of these three aspects allows for the full digitalisation of greening supply chains. The book is an excellent material for both theoreticians and practitioners. Theoreticians will find inspiring research results in a very narrow thematic scope, which is also dynamically developing.
Systemic Inequality Sustainability And Covid 19
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Author : Seela Aladuwaka
language : en
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Release Date : 2022-05-30
Systemic Inequality Sustainability And Covid 19 written by Seela Aladuwaka and has been published by Emerald Group Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-30 with Social Science categories.
Systemic Inequality, Sustainability and COVID-19 provides an opportunity to engage in a critical dialog on the consequences and interactions of COVID-19 with social inequalities and environment management.
Families And Food In Hard Times
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Author : Rebecca O’Connell
language : en
Publisher: UCL Press
Release Date : 2021-05-24
Families And Food In Hard Times written by Rebecca O’Connell and has been published by UCL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-24 with Social Science categories.
Food is fundamental to health and social participation, yet food poverty has increased in the global North. Adopting a realist ontology and taking a comparative case approach, Families and Food in Hard Times addresses the global problem of economic retrenchment and how those most affected are those with the least resources. Based on research carried out with low-income families with children aged 11-15, this timely book examines food poverty in the UK, Portugal and Norway in the decade following the 2008 financial crisis. It examines the resources to which families have access in relation to public policies, local institutions and kinship and friendship networks, and how they intersect. Through ‘thick description’ of families’ everyday lives, it explores the ways in which low income impacts upon practices of household food provisioning, the types of formal and informal support on which families draw to get by, the provision and role of school meals in children’s lives, and the constraints upon families’ social participation involving food. Providing extensive and intensive knowledge concerning the conditions and experiences of low-income parents as they endeavour to feed their families, as well as children’s perspectives of food and eating in the context of low income, the book also draws on the European social science literature on food and families to shed light on the causes and consequences of food poverty in austerity Europe.
Sustainable Community Movement Organizations
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Author : Francesca Forno
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-03-31
Sustainable Community Movement Organizations written by Francesca Forno and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-31 with Business & Economics categories.
This volume shines a light on Sustainable Community Movement Organizations (SCMOs), an emergent wave of non-hierarchical, community-based socio-economic movements, with alternative forms of consumption and production very much at their core. Extending beyond traditional ideas of cooperatives and mutualities, the essays in this collection explore new geographies of solidarity practices ranging from forms of horizontal democracy to interurban and transnational networks. The authors uniquely frame these movements within the Deleuzian concept of the ‘rhizome’, as a meshwork of alternative spaces, paths and trajectories. This connectivity is illustrated in case studies from around the world, ranging from protest movements in response to austerity measures in Southern Europe, to the Buen Vivir movement in the Andes, and Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (ROSCAs) in the Caribbean and Canada. Positioning these cases in relation to current theoretical debates on Social Solidarity Economy, the authors specifically address the question of the persistence and the durability of the organizing practices in community economies. This book will be a valuable tool for academics and students of sustainable consumption, environmental policy, social policy, environmental economics, environmental management and sustainability studies more broadly.
Digital Food
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Author : Tania Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-02-20
Digital Food written by Tania Lewis and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-20 with Social Science categories.
Tania Lewis offers the first critical account of the impact of digital information, media, and communication technologies on the topic of food. Lewis critically analyzes how our relationship to food consumption, production, and politics is being re-mediated through digitally connected electronic devices, practices and content. By drawing together the world of food and the digital, the book speaks to a number of pressing contemporary themes including the tensions around digital engagement in increasingly commercialized spaces; the changing nature of politics in a social media context; the growing naturalization of digital devices and related practices of data monitoring; and the role and impact of digitization on social relations. At the forefront of critical new research, and written with a student readership in mind, this text is essential for scholars interested in media studies, cultural studies, food studies, and cultural geography.
Data Power In Action
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Author : Ola Söderström
language : en
Publisher: Policy Press
Release Date : 2023-12-21
Data Power In Action written by Ola Söderström and has been published by Policy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-21 with Social Science categories.
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Drawing on the study of different cities in the Global South, this book explores how the intensive use of data changes politics, power relations, and everyday life in contemporary cities. Across the volume, expert contributors show how urban actors, from the state to activists, are increasingly using data as a resource to empower their actions and support their claims, while also demonstrating how times of crisis are moments when the power of data is made visible. Focusing on the different dimensions of data power and politics in the urban realm, this is an important contribution to our understanding of how datafication transforms the places in which we live and how we experience them.
Myanmar S Microfinance Sector Agriculture And Covid 19 Emerging Insights And New Challenges
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Author : Myanmar SSP Working Paper
language : en
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Release Date : 2021-12-02
Myanmar S Microfinance Sector Agriculture And Covid 19 Emerging Insights And New Challenges written by Myanmar SSP Working Paper and has been published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-02 with Political Science categories.
This Working Paper takes comprehensive stock of the impacts of the first two waves of COVID-19 (in Q2 and Q4 2020) on the microfinance sector in Myanmar. We discuss potential impact pathways, review policy responses to the crisis, and present new quantitative analysis based on a set of surveys with respondents throughout the agricultural value chain. Additionally, we briefly review impacts since the military takeover on February 1, 2021. Overall, various disruptions to the microfinance sector, particularly during peak periods of COVID-19, significantly reduced overall lending from April 2020, onward. These disruptions, along with disruptions to external financing, led to greater informal borrowing, likely greater indebtedness, and lower food security. However, policy responses and financing accommodations to microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Q2 and Q3 2020 cushioned the sector against widespread insolvency. The events since the military takeover are creating new challenges, exacerbating the aforementioned impacts, and raising new risks of MFI insolvency and broader crises around food security, indebtedness, and poverty. Considering these findings, stakeholder recommendations underscore the importance of easing the movement of international and domestic goods. Efforts should be focused on meeting the MFIs’ need for loanable funds through mechanisms such as exchange rate hedging, credit guarantees, and loan enhancement, while continuing to encourage flexibility around existing financing. When the time comes for a full recovery, there should be a focus on facilitating additional financial injections so that MFIs can more effectively restart lending operations.
Urban Food Systems In Latin America
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Author : Tiana Bakić Hayden
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2025-04-18
Urban Food Systems In Latin America written by Tiana Bakić Hayden and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-18 with Business & Economics categories.
Drawing on a range of case studies from across Latin America, this book highlights the ways that urbanization shapes the food systems that feed this region’s cities, approaching the problem of food in cities as a particularly urban problem. Latin America is the most urbanized area in the world, with nearly 80% of the population living in cities, where rates of food and nutritional insecurity are persistently high, and where the social and spatial organization is characterized by inequality and segregation. The broader questions addressed in this volume are as follows: How do the specific processes and dynamics of Latin American urbanization influence or shape food systems? How can urban food systems develop forms of governance that supports food security and sustainability? After a general introduction, this volume is organized into three main sections: Territories, mobilities, and governance. The chapters consider how specific elements such as urban planning, zoning, migration, gentrification, informal settlements, logistics, retailers, wholesale markets and street vendors, among others, contribute to shaping how food is distributed, sold, and bought in cities. Drawing on studies and theoretical approaches written by scholars and practitioners from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador and Mexico, this book provides a Latin American perspective on global discussions surrounding the role of cities in ensuring food access to urban populations. This volume will be of great interest to students, scholars, and policymakers interested in food systems, urban food, urban planning, sustainable urban development, and Latin American studies.
Wicked Flesh
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Author : Jessica Marie Johnson
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2020-08-28
Wicked Flesh written by Jessica Marie Johnson and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-28 with History categories.
The story of freedom pivots on the choices black women made to retain control over their bodies and selves, their loved ones, and their futures. The story of freedom and all of its ambiguities begins with intimate acts steeped in power. It is shaped by the peculiar oppressions faced by African women and women of African descent. And it pivots on the self-conscious choices black women made to retain control over their bodies and selves, their loved ones, and their futures. Slavery's rise in the Americas was institutional, carnal, and reproductive. The intimacy of bondage whet the appetites of slaveowners, traders, and colonial officials with fantasies of domination that trickled into every social relationship—husband and wife, sovereign and subject, master and laborer. Intimacy—corporeal, carnal, quotidian—tied slaves to slaveowners, women of African descent and their children to European and African men. In Wicked Flesh, Jessica Marie Johnson explores the nature of these complicated intimate and kinship ties and how they were used by black women to construct freedom in the Atlantic world. Johnson draws on archival documents scattered in institutions across three continents, written in multiple languages and largely from the perspective of colonial officials and slave-owning men, to recreate black women's experiences from coastal Senegal to French Saint-Domingue to Spanish Cuba to the swampy outposts of the Gulf Coast. Centering New Orleans as the quintessential site for investigating black women's practices of freedom in the Atlantic world, Wicked Flesh argues that African women and women of African descent endowed free status with meaning through active, aggressive, and sometimes unsuccessful intimate and kinship practices. Their stories, in both their successes and their failures, outline a practice of freedom that laid the groundwork for the emancipation struggles of the nineteenth century and reshaped the New World.