Marginalizing Access To The Sustainable Food System

Author : Camille Tuason Mata
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780761860549

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Marginalizing Access to the Sustainable Food System by Camille Tuason Mata Pdf

Marginalizing Access to the Sustainable Food System is a comprehensive analysis of the barriers and opportunities confronting minority communities’ ability to access healthy, fresh foods. It exposits the meaning of marginalization through several measurement indicators examined from the cross sections of history, space, and participation. These indicators include minority participation in agriculture, the delivery scope of CSA farms, the presence and location of farmer’s markets in the minority districts, the density of food stores, the availability of fresh produce in grocery stores in minority districts, the placement of urban food gardens in minority districts, and minority residents’ participation in the sustainable food system. Camille Tuason Mata applies this analysis to three minority districts in Oakland—Chinatown, Fruitvale, and West Oakland—and examines the patterns of marginalization in relation to the sustainable food system of the California Bay Area.

Author : Alison Blay-Palmer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317118626

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Imagining Sustainable Food Systems by Alison Blay-Palmer Pdf

What defines a sustainable food system? How can it be more inclusive? How do local and global scales interact and how does power flow within food systems? How to encourage an interdisciplinary approach to realizing sustainable food systems? And how to activate change? These questions are considered by EU and North American academics and practitioners in this book. Using a wide range of case studies, it provides a critical overview, showing how and where theory and practice can converge to produce more sustainable food systems.

Author : Geoff Desa,Xiangping Jia
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031185601

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Social Innovation and Sustainability Transition by Geoff Desa,Xiangping Jia Pdf

This book uses a historical and modern lens to reimagine the role that Extension could potentially play in catalyzing reciprocal, co-learning relationships between Land-Grant Universities and their diverse local constituencies. The establishment of statewide extension systems was once seen as a way to ensure that Land-Grant Universities would be accessible and responsive to all of a state’s residents. Extension systems continue to offer a front-door to a major public university in almost every county of the United States, but they tend to be viewed primarily as a way to translate science or distribute information from the university to the public. This books argues for the importance of Extension and shows that we are conceiving of this system too narrowly. Only by retelling the stories of the Extension and getting people to see themselves as part of the story can we imagine a different future in which state universities and land-grant colleges engage more authentically and equitably in two-way relationships with their local constituents.in catalyzing reciprocal, co-learning relationships between Land-Grant Universities and their diverse local constituencies. Chapter “Palatable disruption: the politics of plant milk", chapter “Feeding the melting pot: inclusive strategies for the multi-ethnic city", chapter "A carrot isn't a carrot isn't a carrot: tracing value in alternative practices of food exchange", chapter “Virtualizing the 'good life': reworking narratives of agrarianism and the rural idyll in a computer game" and chapter "'Workable utopias' for social change through inclusion and empowerment? Community supported agriculture (CSA) in Wales as social innovation" are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license via link.springer.com.

Author : Carmen Sirianni
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780700629985

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Sustainable Cities in American Democracy by Carmen Sirianni Pdf

We face two global threats: the climate crisis and a crisis of democracy. Located at the crux of these crises, sustainable cities build on the foundations and resources of democracy to make our increasingly urban world more resilient and just. Sustainable Cities in American Democracy focuses on this effort as it emerged and developed over the past decades in the institutional field of sustainable cities—a vital response to environmental degradation and climate change that is shaped by civic and democratic action. Carmen Sirianni shows how various kinds of civic associations and grassroots mobilizing figure in this story, especially as they began to explicitly link conservation to the future of our democracy and then develop sustainable cities as a democratic project. These organizations are national, local, or multitiered, from the League of Women Voters to the Natural Resources Defense Council to bicycle and watershed associations. Some challenge city government agencies contentiously, while others seek collaboration; many do both at some point. Sirianni uses a range of analytic approaches—from scholarly disciplines, policy design, urban governance, social movements, democratic theory, public administration, and planning—to understand how such diverse civic and professional associations have come to be both an ecology of organizations and a systemic and coherent project. The institutional field of sustainable cities has emerged with some core democratic norms and civic practices but also with many tensions and trade-offs that must be crafted and revised strategically in the face of new opportunities and persistent shortfalls. Sirianni’s account draws ambitious yet pragmatic and hopeful lessons for a “Civic Green New Deal”—a policy design for building sustainable and resilient cities on much more robust foundations in the decades ahead while also addressing democratic deficits in our polarized political culture.

Author : Alison Blay-Palmer,Damien Conaré,Ken Meter,Amanda Di Battista,Carla Johnston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780429801389

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Sustainable Food System Assessment by Alison Blay-Palmer,Damien Conaré,Ken Meter,Amanda Di Battista,Carla Johnston Pdf

Sustainable Food System Assessment provides both practical and theoretical insights about the growing interest in and response to measuring food system sustainability. Bringing together research from the Global North and South, this book shares lessons learned, explores intended and actual project outcomes, and highlights points of conceptual and methodological convergence. Interest in assessing food system sustainability is growing, as evidenced by the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact and the importance food systems initiatives have taken in serving as a lever for attaining the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This book opens by looking at the conceptual considerations of food systems indicators, including the place-based dimensions of food systems indicators and how measurements are implicated in sense-making and visioning processes. Chapters in the second part cover operationalizing metrics, including the development of food systems indicator frameworks, degrees of indicator complexities, and practical constraints to assessment. The final part focuses on the outcomes of assessment projects, including impacts on food policy and communities involved, highlighting the importance of building connections between sustainable food systems initiatives. The global coverage and multi-scalar perspectives, including both conceptual and practical aspects, make this a key resource for academics and practitioners across planning, geography, urban studies, food studies, and research methods. It will also be of interest to government officials and those working within NGOs. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.routledge.com/Sustainable-Food-System-Assessment-Lessons-from-Global-Practice/Blay-Palmer-Conare-Meter-Battista-Johnston/p/book/9781032083933, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Habermann, Birgit,Nehring, Ryan,Zhang, Wei,Hettiarachchi, Upeksha,Leñero, Eva Marina-Valencia,Falk, Thomas,Rietveld, Anne M.,Woltering, Lennart,Kumar, Praveen,Wang, Xinxin,Zhou, Yunyi,Chen, Kevin Z.,Pham, Thuy Thu,Rodríguez, Luz Ángela,Venegas, Martha
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A conceptual framework of living labs for people for sustainable food systems by Habermann, Birgit,Nehring, Ryan,Zhang, Wei,Hettiarachchi, Upeksha,Leñero, Eva Marina-Valencia,Falk, Thomas,Rietveld, Anne M.,Woltering, Lennart,Kumar, Praveen,Wang, Xinxin,Zhou, Yunyi,Chen, Kevin Z.,Pham, Thuy Thu,Rodríguez, Luz Ángela,Venegas, Martha Pdf

Innovation spaces are often dominated by linear, top-down approaches, with the transfer of technology being seen as the solution to many problems rather than trying to understand which innovation processes people are engaging with themselves. In other words, barriers to progress are typically viewed as issues of technology adoption, not as part of the innovation process itself. This study contributes to changing the paradigm by proposing a living lab approach, which considers innovation as an adaptive process where stakeholders co-produce knowledge and collaborate based on inclusivity and empowerment. Our specific concept for this approach is called a Living Lab for People (LL4P). This conceptual paper outlines a framework to guide the development of a LL4P that remains flexible to be adapted for specific sites. While we seek to identify common denominators, we recognize the necessity for such a framework to remain open enough to be adaptable for varied contexts. Consequently, the framework draws on the living lab literature but tailors existing approaches for sustainable food system transformation and puts people (men, women, and marginalized groups among key food system actors) at the center of innovation processes with a clear intention to address power and social inequity. We draw on specific cases in China, Colombia, Kenya and Vietnam as learning grounds for formulating LL4Ps through locally led innovation processes. Based on our learnings and consultations, we define a LL4P as an inclusive and diverse space for people to advance their socio-technical innovation processes and associated modes of governance within a facilitated organizational structure. The principles of LL4Ps include co-production, gender equality and social inclusion, governance and institutional sustainability to advance existing and novel innovation processes. The practical experiences from applying this framework in the four case studies indicate alternative pathways for transforming the food system toward a sustainable and socially equitable trajectory through the establishment of a LL4P.

Author : Will Valley,Selena Ahmed,Julie Grossman,Nicholas R. Jordan,David Meek,Nils McCune,Damian Parr
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782832522998

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Critical and Equity-Oriented Pedagogical Innovations in Sustainable Food Systems Education by Will Valley,Selena Ahmed,Julie Grossman,Nicholas R. Jordan,David Meek,Nils McCune,Damian Parr Pdf

Author : Mitchell Schwarzer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520391536

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Hella Town by Mitchell Schwarzer Pdf

Hella Town reveals the profound impact of transportation improvements, systemic racism, and regional competition on Oakland’s built environment. Often overshadowed by San Francisco, its larger and more glamorous twin, Oakland has a fascinating history of its own. From serving as a major transportation hub to forging a dynamic manufacturing sector, by the mid-twentieth century Oakland had become the urban center of the East Bay. Hella Town focuses on how political deals, economic schemes, and technological innovations fueled this emergence but also seeded the city’s postwar struggles. Toward the turn of the millennium, as immigration from Latin America and East Asia increased, Oakland became one of the most diverse cities in the country. The city still grapples with the consequences of uneven class- and race-based development-amid-disruption. How do past decisions about where to locate highways or public transit, urban renewal districts or civic venues, parks or shopping centers, influence how Oaklanders live today? A history of Oakland’s buildings and landscapes, its booms and its busts, provides insight into its current conditions: an influx of new residents and businesses, skyrocketing housing costs, and a lingering chasm between the haves and have-nots.

Author : Irena Knezevic,Alison Blay-Palmer,Charles Z. Levkoe,Phil Mount,Erin Nelson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319570006

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Nourishing Communities by Irena Knezevic,Alison Blay-Palmer,Charles Z. Levkoe,Phil Mount,Erin Nelson Pdf

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.

Author : Monika Thakur
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031471223

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Sustainable Food Systems (Volume I) by Monika Thakur Pdf

Author : Wayne Caldwell,Christopher Fullerton,Sara Epp
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782832531266

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Planning for Agriculture and Sustainable Food Systems by Wayne Caldwell,Christopher Fullerton,Sara Epp Pdf

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251329900

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Enabling sustainable food systems by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

Sustainable food systems are fundamental to ensuring that future generations are food secure and eat healthy diets. To transition towards sustainability, many food system activities must be reconstructed, and myriad actors around the world are starting to act locally. While some changes are easier than others, knowing how to navigate through them to promote sustainable consumption and production practices requires complex skill sets. This handbook is written for “sustainable food systems innovators” by a group of innovators from Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe who are leading initiatives to grow, share, sell and consume more sustainable foods in their local contexts. It includes experiences that are changing the organizational structures of local food systems to make them more sustainable. The handbook is organized as a “choose your own adventure” story where each reader – individually or in a facilitated group – can develop their own personalized learning and action journeys according to their priorities. The topics included in this handbook are arranged into four categories of innovations: engaging consumers, producing sustainably, getting products to market and getting organized.

Author : Dorothy Chansky,Sarah W. Tracy
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781648891021

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Conversations With Food by Dorothy Chansky,Sarah W. Tracy Pdf

"Conversations With Food" offers readers an array of essays revealing the power of food (and its absence) to transform relationships between the human and non-human realms; to define national, colonial, and postcolonial cultures; to help instantiate race, gender, and class relations; and to serve as the basis for policymaking. Food functions in these contexts as items in religious or secular law, as objects with which to bargain or over which to fight, as literary trope, and as a way to improve or harm health—individual or collective. The anthology ranges from Ancient Greece to the posthuman fairy underworld; from the codifying of French culinary heritage to the strategic marketing of 100-calorie snacks; from the European famine after the Second World War to the lush and exotic cuisines of culinary tourism today. "Conversations With Food" will engage anyone interested in discovering the disciplinary breadth and depth of food studies. The anthology is ideally suited for introductory and advanced courses in food studies, as it includes essays in a range of humanities and social science disciplines, and each author draws cross-disciplinary linkages between their own work and other essays in the volume. This thematic and conceptual intercalation, when read with the editors’ introduction, makes the collection an exceptionally strong representation of the field of food studies.

Author : Albie F. Miles,Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan,Philip Dobie,Anja Gassner,Casey Hoy,Noa Kekuewa Lincoln,Kathleen Merrigan,Jennifer Sowerwine,Samina Raja
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832515464

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Achieving food system resilience & equity in the era of global environmental change by Albie F. Miles,Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan,Philip Dobie,Anja Gassner,Casey Hoy,Noa Kekuewa Lincoln,Kathleen Merrigan,Jennifer Sowerwine,Samina Raja Pdf

Author : Clinton Aigbavboa,Joseph N. Mojekwu,Wellington Didibhuku Thwala,Lawrence Atepor,Emmanuel Adinyira,Gabriel Nani,Emmanuel Bamfo-Agyei
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1236 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783031259982

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Sustainable Education and Development – Sustainable Industrialization and Innovation by Clinton Aigbavboa,Joseph N. Mojekwu,Wellington Didibhuku Thwala,Lawrence Atepor,Emmanuel Adinyira,Gabriel Nani,Emmanuel Bamfo-Agyei Pdf

This book presents papers from the 11th Sustainable Education and Development Research Conference on the theme: "Build Resilient Infrastructure, Promote Inclusive and Sustainable Industrialization, and Foster Innovation." Papers related to the sub-themes were presented: i. Develop quality, reliable, sustainable, and resilient infrastructure, including regional and transborder infrastructure, to support economic development and human well-being, with a focus on affordable and equitable access for all. ii. Promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and, by 2030, significantly raise industry's share of employment and gross domestic product, in line with national circumstances, and double its share in the least developed countries. iii. Increase the access of small-scale industrial and other enterprises, in particular in developing countries, to financial services, including affordable credit, and their integration into value chains and markets. iv. By 2030, upgrade infrastructure and retrofit industries to make them sustainable, with increased resource-use efficiency and greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes, with all countries taking action in accordance with their respective capabilities. v. Enhance scientific research and upgrade the technological capabilities of industrial sectors in all countries, in particular developing countries, including, by 2030, encouraging innovation and substantially increasing productivity. SEDRC gathers papers that explain how key education on the Sustainable Development Goals is transforming lives, eradicating poverty, professing solutions to the infrastructural deficit in Africa, and providing innovative ways to provide affordable housing in Africa. This book will be of interest to academics, postgraduate students, and industry professionals.