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From farm to fork : perspectives on growing sustainable food systems in the twenty-first century /
"Interest in the food we eat and how it is produced, distributed, and consumed has grown tremendously in the last few years. Consumers are exchanging highly processed, genetically engineered, and pesticide-contaminated food for fresh produce grown using organic methods. For example, in both urb...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Akron, Ohio :
University of Akron Press,
2016.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | & Law.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Part I: The Elements of Our Complicated Food System: Food, Land, and Farmers; 1. Utopian Dream: A Farm Bill Linking Agriculture to Health; 2. Land for Food in the Twenty-First Century; 3. The Social Sustainability of Family Farms in Local Food Systems: Issues and Policy Questions; 4. Achieving Social Sustainability of Food Systems for Long-Term Food Security; Part II: Views from Within the Food System: The Farmer, the Consumer, and the Worker; 5. Community Agriculture and the Undoing of Industrial Culture.
- 6. Consumer Access and Choice in Sustainable Food Systems7. The Workers Who Feed Us: Poverty and Food Insecurity among U.S. Restaurant and Retail Workers; Part III: From Federal Policies to Local Programs: Solutions for A Sustainable Food System; 8. A Call for the Law of Food, Farming, and Sustainability; 9. Informational and Structural Changes for a Sustainable Food System; 10. Breaking Our Chemical Addiction: A Twelve-Step Program for Getting Off the Pesticide Treadmill; 11. Turning Deficit into Democracy: The Value of Food Policy Audits in Assessing and Transforming Local Food Systems.