ABSTRACT
This book examines the role of local food movements, enterprises and networks in the transformation of the currently unsustainable global food system. It explores a series of innovations designed to re-integrate sustainable modes of food production and encourage food sovereignty.
It provides detailed insights into a specialised network of social actors collaborating in novel ways and creating new economic arrangements across different geographical locales. In working to devise ‘local solutions to global problems’, the initiatives explored in the book represent a ‘second-generation’ food social movement which is less preoccupied with distinctive local qualities than with building socially just food systems aimed at delivering healthy nutrition worldwide. Drawing on fieldwork undertaken in sites across Europe, the USA and Brazil, the book provides a rich collection of case studies that offer a fresh perspective on the role of grassroots action in the transition to more sustainable food production systems.
Addressing a substantive gap in the literature that falls between global analyses of the contemporary food system and highly localised case studies, the book will appeal to those teaching food studies and those conducting research on civic food initiatives or on environmental social movements more generally.
Chapters 1, 3, 7, and 8 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|19 pages
Grassroots initiatives in food system transformation
part I|60 pages
Transformative food movements
chapter 2|19 pages
Women, agroecology and “real food” in Brazil
chapter 3|27 pages
Alternative food politics
chapter 4|12 pages
Co-designing cities
part II|58 pages
Transformative food economies
chapter 6|19 pages
Innovating locally for global transformation
chapter 7|20 pages
Cost effects of local food enterprises
part III|72 pages
Transformative local networks