Sustainable Food Futures: Multidisciplinary Solutions / Edition 1

by Jessica Duncan, Megan Bailey

Overview

Securing sustainable food for everyone is one of the world's most pressing challenges, but research, policy, and programmes remain fragmented, and effective solutions have been slow to emerge. This book takes on these challenges by proposing a range of solutions that can advance pathways towards sustainable food futures.

Complete with recipes, this book is structured so that readers are taken in a logical progression through discussions of solutions, highlighting the need to recognise the importance of place and the importance of participation, and to challenge dominant descriptions of markets, through to re-designing food systems.

The solutions presented in this book are based on real-world cases, but discussions remain deliberately broad to encourage thinking in new ways. Cases are drawn from Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America. The book is of relevance to those interested in sustainable food futures, and can serve as a supplementary textbook for a wide range of courses in food studies and related disciplines.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138207004
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/15/2017
Series:	Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jessica Duncan is an Assistant Professor in the Rural Sociology Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands. She is the author of Global Food Security Governance: Civil society engagement in the reformed Committee on World Food Security (Routledge, 2015).

Megan Bailey is an Assistant Professor in the Marine Affairs Program and Canada Research Chair, Integrated Ocean and Coastal Governance, Dalhousie University, Canada.

Table of Contents

1. Sustainable Food Futures: Multidisciplinary solutions Part I: Recognizing Place 2.Cultural Relevance in Arctic food Security Initiatives 3.Rebuilding Consumers’ Trust in Food: Community Supported Agriculture in China 4.Place-based food systems: "re-valuing local" and fostering socio-ecological sustainability 5.Recovering Farmland Commons Part II: Enhancing Participation 6.The Political Economy of Customary Land Rights in Mozambique: Lessons from a Food Sovereignty Movement 7.Small-scale aquaculture in the Bolivian Amazon: A contextually-based solution for positive social and economic outcomes 8.Building ‘A World Where Many Worlds Fit’: Indigenous Autonomy, Mutual Aid, and an (Anti-Capitalist) Moral Economy of the (Rebel) Peasant Part III: Challenging Markets 9.Knowing how to bring food to the market: appreciating the contribution of intermediary traders to the future of food availability in Sub-Saharan Africa 10.Certify sustainable retailers? 11.The solution cannot be conventionalized: Protecting the alterity of fairer and more sustainable food networks Part IV: Designing sustainable food futures 12.Cultured meat, better than beans? 13.Soil Currency: Exploring a more equitable, sustainable, and participatory economic system 14.From pirate islands to communities of hope: Reflections on the circular economy of food systems Part V: Conclusions 15.Caution: Road work ahead