Together at the Table : Sustainability and Sustenance in the American Agrifood System /
Allen, Patricia
Together at the Table : Sustainability and Sustenance in the American Agrifood System / Patricia Allen. - 1 online resource (272 p.) - Rural Studies .
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Everywhere you look people are more aware of what they eat and where their food comes from. In a cafeteria in Los Angeles, children make their lunchtime food choices at fresh-fruit and salad bars stocked with local foods. In a community garden in New York, low-income residents are producing organically grown fruits and vegetables for their own use and to sell at market. In Madison, Wisconsin, shoppers select their food from a bounty of choices at a vibrant farmers' market. Together at the Table is about people throughout the United States who are building successful alternatives to the contemporary agrifood system and their prospects for the future. At the heart of these efforts are the movements for sustainable agriculture and community food security. Both movements seek to reconstruct the agrifood system-the food production chain, from the growing of crops to food production and distribution-to become more ecologically sound, economically viable, and socially just. Allen describes the ways in which people working in these movements view the world and how they see their place in challenging and reshaping the agrifood system. She also shows how ideas and practices of sustainable agriculture and community food security have already woven their way into the dominant agrifood institutions. Allen explores the possibilities this process may hold for improving social and environmental justice in the American agrifood system.Together at the Table is an important reminder that much work still remains to be done. Now that the ideas and priorities of alternative food movements have taken hold, it is time for the next-even more challenging-step. Alternative agrifood movements must acknowledge and address the deeper structural and cultural patterns that constrain the long-term resolution of social and environmental problems in the agrifood system.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780271022680
10.1515/9780271022680 doi
Agricultural industries--Environmental aspects--United States.
Food industry and trade--United States.
Natural foods industry--United States.
Sustainable agriculture--Economic aspects--United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural.
HD9005 / .A69 2004
338.1/0973
Together at the Table : Sustainability and Sustenance in the American Agrifood System / Patricia Allen. - 1 online resource (272 p.) - Rural Studies .
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Everywhere you look people are more aware of what they eat and where their food comes from. In a cafeteria in Los Angeles, children make their lunchtime food choices at fresh-fruit and salad bars stocked with local foods. In a community garden in New York, low-income residents are producing organically grown fruits and vegetables for their own use and to sell at market. In Madison, Wisconsin, shoppers select their food from a bounty of choices at a vibrant farmers' market. Together at the Table is about people throughout the United States who are building successful alternatives to the contemporary agrifood system and their prospects for the future. At the heart of these efforts are the movements for sustainable agriculture and community food security. Both movements seek to reconstruct the agrifood system-the food production chain, from the growing of crops to food production and distribution-to become more ecologically sound, economically viable, and socially just. Allen describes the ways in which people working in these movements view the world and how they see their place in challenging and reshaping the agrifood system. She also shows how ideas and practices of sustainable agriculture and community food security have already woven their way into the dominant agrifood institutions. Allen explores the possibilities this process may hold for improving social and environmental justice in the American agrifood system.Together at the Table is an important reminder that much work still remains to be done. Now that the ideas and priorities of alternative food movements have taken hold, it is time for the next-even more challenging-step. Alternative agrifood movements must acknowledge and address the deeper structural and cultural patterns that constrain the long-term resolution of social and environmental problems in the agrifood system.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780271022680
10.1515/9780271022680 doi
Agricultural industries--Environmental aspects--United States.
Food industry and trade--United States.
Natural foods industry--United States.
Sustainable agriculture--Economic aspects--United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural.
HD9005 / .A69 2004
338.1/0973