Remaking the North American Food System

Strategies for Sustainability

C. Clare Hinrichs, Thomas A. Lyson

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Year: 2008
• ISBN:
  9780803215788
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Sustainable Agriculture
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Food and agriculture are in the news daily. Stories in the media highlight issues of abundance, deprivation, pleasure, risk, health, community, and identity. Remaking the North American Food System examines the resurgence of interest in rebuilding the links between agricultural production and food consumption as a way to overcome some of the negative implications of industrial and globalizing trends in the food and agricultural system. Written by a diverse group of scholars and practitioners, the chapters in this volume describe the many efforts throughout North America to craft and sustain alternative food systems that can improve social, economic, environmental, and health outcomes. With examples from Puerto Rico to Oregon to Quebec, this volume offers a broad North American perspective attuned to trends toward globalization at the level of markets and governance and shows how globalization affects the specific localities. The contributors make the case that food can no longer be taken for granted or viewed in isolation. Rather, food should be considered in its connection to community vitality, cultural survival, economic development, social justice, environmental quality, ecological integrity, and human health.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Practice and Place in Remaking the Food System, C. Clare Hinrichs
• Part I: What's Wrong with the Food System? Orienting Frameworks for Change
• Part II: Institutions and Practices to Remake the Food System
• Part III: The Importance of Place and Region in Remaking the Food System
• Conclusion: A Full Plate: Challenges and Opportunities in Remaking the Food System, C. Clare Hinrichs and Elizabeth Barham
• Contributors
• Index