ABSTRACT
Using landscape as a method to ground utopian methodologies of thought offers a crucial framework with which to face the many problems with which our contemporary global food and agriculture system presents us. Not only does this sequence of mental work give us a way to organise thought about vast problems ranging from the twin challenges of obesity and malnutrition to water and air pollution associated with the production and distribution of food, it also gives us a framework for evaluating and proposing solutions. The history of the role that the concepts of food and landscape have played in utopian thought is not only long but also worth examining at this time. Given the challenges our species faces relative to food and agriculture, a renewed interest in utopian propositions is not only warranted but critical.
