Feeding Cities

Author : Christopher Bosso
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317237112

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Feeding Cities by Christopher Bosso Pdf

There is enormous current interest in urban food systems, with a wide array of policies and initiatives intended to increase food security, decrease ecological impacts and improve public health. This volume is a cross-disciplinary and applied approach to urban food system sustainability, health, and equity. The contributions are from researchers working on social, economic, political and ethical issues associated with food systems. The book's focus is on the analysis of and lessons obtained from specific experiences relevant to local food systems, such as tapping urban farmers markets to address issues of food access and public health, and use of zoning to restrict the density of fast food restaurants with the aim of reducing obesity rates. Other topics considered include building a local food business to address the twin problems of economic and nutritional distress, developing ways to reduce food waste and improve food access in poor urban neighborhoods, and asking whether the many, and diverse, hopes for urban agriculture are justified. The chapters show that it is critical to conduct research on existing efforts to determine what works and to develop best practices in pursuit of sustainable and socially just urban food systems. The main examples discussed are from the United States, but the issues are applicable internationally.

Author : Andrew Deener
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Food consumption
ISBN : 9780226703077

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The Problem with Feeding Cities by Andrew Deener Pdf

"For some, grocery shopping is an activity woven seamlessly into daily life. They make lists of foods they enjoy preparing and eating throughout the week, stopping by a market where we seek out the best deals and freshest foods among the broad range of items on display. However, access to this abundance is wildly unequal. Many Americans make long commutes to seek out affordable food, visiting corner stores for dry goods and distant markets for fresh fruits, vegetables, and meats. Poor people, and especially people of color, have significantly less access to the affordable bounty of large grocery stores. The Problems with Feeding Cities charts the massive infrastructures and systems that make it possible to consistently buy a wide range of groceries in one place for an affordable price and the communities that have been left behind in this food revolution. Tracing the growth of technologies including bar codes and storage facilities, networks such as distribution chains and transit systems, and social organizations including food banks and farmers markets, this book illuminates the long social history of today's urban food deserts. The unequal distribution of food and resources is closely linked to the rise and explosive growth of American cities, and the infrastructures that accompanied them affect us still"--

Author : Axumite G. Egziabher
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781552501092

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Cities Feeding People by Axumite G. Egziabher Pdf

Cities Feeding People examines urban agriculture in East Africa and proves that it is a safe, clean, and secure method to feed the world's struggling urban residents. It also collapses the myth that urban agriculture is practiced only by the poor and unemployed. Cities Feeding People provides the hard facts needed to convince governments that urban agriculture should have a larger role in feeding the urban population.

Author : Andrew Deener
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226703107

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The Problem with Feeding Cities by Andrew Deener Pdf

For most people, grocery shopping is a mundane activity. Few stop to think about the massive, global infrastructure that makes it possible to buy Chilean grapes in a Philadelphia supermarket in the middle of winter. Yet every piece of food represents an interlocking system of agriculture, manufacturing, shipping, logistics, retailing, and nonprofits that controls what we eat—or don’t. The Problem with Feeding Cities is a sociological and historical examination of how this remarkable network of abundance and convenience came into being over the last century. It looks at how the US food system transformed from feeding communities to feeding the entire nation, and it reveals how a process that was once about fulfilling basic needs became focused on satisfying profit margins. It is also a story of how this system fails to feed people, especially in the creation of food deserts. Andrew Deener shows that problems with food access are the result of infrastructural failings stemming from how markets and cities were developed, how distribution systems were built, and how organizations coordinate the quality and movement of food. He profiles hundreds of people connected through the food chain, from farmers, wholesalers, and supermarket executives, to global shippers, logistics experts, and cold-storage operators, to food bank employees and public health advocates. It is a book that will change the way we see our grocery store trips and will encourage us all to rethink the way we eat in this country.

Author : Alice Hovorka,Henk de Zeeuw,Mary Njenga
Publisher : Practical Action Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1853396850

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Women Feeding Cities by Alice Hovorka,Henk de Zeeuw,Mary Njenga Pdf

Analyses the roles of women and men in urban food production, and through case studies from three developing regions suggests how women's contribution might be maximized.

Author : ZEDER MELINDA A
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1991-09-17
Category : Animal industry
ISBN : PURD:32754062051762

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FEEDING CITIES by ZEDER MELINDA A Pdf

An anthropologist with the Smithsonian presents a new approach to studying the development of cities and centralized states. Focusing on the Kur River Basin (in modern Iran) from the first human habitation to the first collapse of civilization, she uses the management and distribution of animals as an index of the economic factors necessary for a complex society. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780889368828

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For Hunger-proof Cities by International Development Research Centre (Canada) Pdf

For Hunger Proof Cities: Sustainable urban food systems

Author : Richard Graham
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292779068

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Feeding the City by Richard Graham Pdf

On the eastern coast of Brazil, facing westward across a wide magnificent bay, lies Salvador, a major city in the Americas at the end of the eighteenth century. Those who distributed and sold food, from the poorest street vendors to the most prosperous traders—black and white, male and female, slave and free, Brazilian, Portuguese, and African—were connected in tangled ways to each other and to practically everyone else in the city, and are the subjects of this book. Food traders formed the city's most dynamic social component during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, constantly negotiating their social place. The boatmen who brought food to the city from across the bay decisively influenced the outcome of the war for Brazilian independence from Portugal by supplying the insurgents and not the colonial army. Richard Graham here shows for the first time that, far from being a city sharply and principally divided into two groups—the rich and powerful or the hapless poor or enslaved—Salvador had a population that included a great many who lived in between and moved up and down. The day-to-day behavior of those engaged in food marketing leads to questions about the government's role in regulating the economy and thus to notions of justice and equity, questions that directly affected both food traders and the wider consuming public. Their voices significantly shaped the debate still going on between those who support economic liberalization and those who resist it.

Author : Peter Ladner
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781550924886

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The Urban Food Revolution by Peter Ladner Pdf

Our reliance on industrial agriculture has resulted in a food supply riddled with hidden environmental, economic and health care costs and beset by rising food prices. With only a handful of corporations responsible for the lion's share of the food on our supermarket shelves, we are incredibly vulnerable to supply chain disruption. The Urban Food Revolution provides a recipe for community food security based on leading innovations across North America. The author draws on his political and business experience to show that we have all the necessary ingredients to ensure that local, fresh sustainable food is affordable and widely available. He describes how cities are bringing food production home by: Growing community through neighborhood gardening, cooking and composting programs Rebuilding local food processing, storage and distribution systems Investing in farmers markets and community supported agriculture Reducing obesity through local fresh food initiatives in schools, colleges and universities. Ending inner-city food deserts Producing food locally makes people healthier, alleviates poverty, creates jobs, and makes cities safer and more beautiful. The Urban Food Revolution is an essential resource for anyone who has lost confidence in the global industrial food system and wants practical advice on how to join the local food revolution.

Author : Carolyn Steel
Publisher : Random House
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446496091

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Hungry City by Carolyn Steel Pdf

'Cities cover just 2% of the world’s surface, but consume 75% of the world’s resources’. The relationship between food and cities is fundamental to our everyday lives. Food shapes cities and through them it moulds us - along with the countryside that feeds us. Yet few of us are conscious of the process and we rarely stop to wonder how food reaches our plates. Hungry City examines the way in which modern food production has damaged the balance of human existence, and reveals that we have yet to resolve a centuries-old dilemma - one which holds the key to a host of current problems, from obesity and the inexorable rise of the supermarkets, to the destruction of the natural world. Original, inspiring and written with infectious enthusiasm and belief, Hungry City illuminates an issue that is fundamental to us all.

Author : Christopher Bosso
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317237129

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Feeding Cities by Christopher Bosso Pdf

There is enormous current interest in urban food systems, with a wide array of policies and initiatives intended to increase food security, decrease ecological impacts and improve public health. This volume is a cross-disciplinary and applied approach to urban food system sustainability, health, and equity. The contributions are from researchers working on social, economic, political and ethical issues associated with food systems. The book's focus is on the analysis of and lessons obtained from specific experiences relevant to local food systems, such as tapping urban farmers markets to address issues of food access and public health, and use of zoning to restrict the density of fast food restaurants with the aim of reducing obesity rates. Other topics considered include building a local food business to address the twin problems of economic and nutritional distress, developing ways to reduce food waste and improve food access in poor urban neighborhoods, and asking whether the many, and diverse, hopes for urban agriculture are justified. The chapters show that it is critical to conduct research on existing efforts to determine what works and to develop best practices in pursuit of sustainable and socially just urban food systems. The main examples discussed are from the United States, but the issues are applicable internationally.

Author : Peter Lummel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317134503

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Food and the City in Europe since 1800 by Peter Lummel Pdf

This fascinating volume examines the impact that rapid urbanization has had upon diets and food systems throughout Western Europe over the past two centuries. Bringing together studies from across the continent, it stresses the fundamental links between key changes in European social history and food systems, food cultures and food politics. Contributors respond to a number of important questions, including: when and how did local food production cease to be sufficient for the city and when did improved transport conditions and liberal commercial relations replace local by supra-regional food supplies? How far did the food industry contribute to improved living conditions in cities? What influence did urban consumers have? Food and the City in Europe since 1800 also examines issues of food hygiene and health impacts in cities, looks at various food innovations and how ’new’ foods often first gained acceptance in cities, and explores how eating fashions have changed over the centuries.

Author : J. A. Simms
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Draft horses
ISBN : UIUC:30112019461927

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Preliminary Experiments in Feeding City Work Horses by J. A. Simms Pdf

Author : Sylvia Chant,Cathy McIlwaine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317950370

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Cities, Slums and Gender in the Global South by Sylvia Chant,Cathy McIlwaine Pdf

Developing regions are set to account for the vast majority of future urban growth, and women and girls will become the majority inhabitants of these locations in the Global South. This is one of the first books to detail the challenges facing poorer segments of the female population who commonly reside in ‘slums’. It explores the variegated disadvantages of urban poverty and slum-dwelling from a gender perspective. This book revolves around conceptualisation of the ‘gender-urban-slum interface’ which explains key elements to understanding women’s experiences in slum environments. It has a specific focus on the ways in which gender inequalities are can be entrenched but also alleviated. Included is a review of the demographic factors which are increasingly making cities everywhere ‘feminised spaces’, such as increased rural-urban migration among women, demographic ageing, and rising proportions of female-headed households in urban areas. Discussions focus in particular on education, paid and unpaid work, access to land, property and urban services, violence, intra-urban mobility, and political participation and representation. This book will be of use to researchers and professionals concerned with gender and development, urbanisation and rural-urban migration.

Author : David Thorpe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317625902

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The 'One Planet' Life by David Thorpe Pdf

The One Planet Life demonstrates a path for everyone towards a way of life in which we don’t act as if we had more than one planet Earth. The difference between this approach and others is that it uses ecological footprint analysis to help to determine how effective our efforts are. Much of the book is a manual – with examples – on how to live the 'good life' and supply over 65% of your livelihood from your land with mostly positive impacts upon the environment. It examines the pioneering Welsh policy, One Planet Development, then considers efforts towards one planet living in urban areas. After a foreword by BioRegional/One Planet Living co-founder Pooran Desai and an introduction by former Welsh environment minister Jane Davidson, the book contains: An essay arguing that our attitude to planning, land and development needs to change to enable truly sustainable development. Guidelines on finding land, finance, and creating a personal plan for one planet living. Detailed guides on: sustainable building, supplying your own food, generating renewable energy, reducing carbon emissions from travel, land management, water supply and waste treatment. 20 exemplary examples at all scales – from micro-businesses to suburbs – followed by Jane Davidson’s Afterword. The book will interest anyone seeking to find out how a sustainable lifestyle can be achieved. It is also key reading for rural and built environment practitioners and policy makers keen to support low impact initiatives, and for students studying aspects of planning, geography, governance, sustainability and renewable energy.