Feeding Cities (eBook, PDF)

Improving local food access, security, and resilience
Redaktion: Bosso, Christopher

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

There is enormous current interest in urban food systems, with a wide array of policies and initiatives intended to increase food security, decrease ecological impacts and improve public health. This volume is a cross-disciplinary and applied approach to urban food system sustainability, health, and equity.

The contributions are from researchers working on social, economic, political and ethical issues associated with food systems. The book's focus is on the analysis of and lessons obtained from specific experiences relevant to local food systems, such as tapping urban farmers markets to address issues of food access and public health, and use of zoning to restrict the density of fast food restaurants with the aim of reducing obesity rates. Other topics considered include building a local food business to address the twin problems of economic and nutritional distress, developing ways to reduce food waste and improve food access in poor urban neighborhoods, and asking whether the many, and diverse, hopes for urban agriculture are justified.

The chapters show that it is critical to conduct research on existing efforts to determine what works and to develop best practices in pursuit of sustainable and socially just urban food systems. The main examples discussed are from the United States, but the issues are applicable internationally.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317237129
• Artikelnr.: 47139048

Autorenporträt

Christopher Bosso is Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Coordinator of the Consortium for Food Systems Sustainability, Health, and Equity at Northeastern University, Boston, USA. His areas of interest include food and environmental policy, science and technology policy, and the governance of emerging technologies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. What You Want, When You Want It? Christopher Bosso Part 1: Ensuring Food
Security 2. Food Security as a Human Rights Issue Sandra Raponi 3.
Population Density, Poverty, and Food Retail Access in the United States:
An Empirical Approach Parke Wilde, Joseph Llobrera, and Michele Ver Ploeg
4. Super-sized Strategies for Improved Health: Does Reducing the Density of
Fast Food Restaurants Matter? Bakeyah Nelson and Karen Banks 5. From Food
Access to Food Justice: A Case Study of the Somerville Mobile Farmers'
Market Sara Shostak, Janaki Blum, Chris Mancini, Luisa Oliveira, Lisa
Robinson, and Erica Satin-Hernandez 6. Farm to Home: Senior Farmers' Market
Nutrition Program Access and Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Home Delivery for
Homebound Older Adults Mehreen Ismail and Cara Cuite Part 2: Building Local
Food System Sustainability 7. What Grows in East New York: 'East New York
Farms!' and Expectations of Urban Agriculture Sarita Daftary-Steel,
Christine M. Porter, Suzanne Gervais, David Vigil, and Daryl Marshall 8.
Feeding Community: A Case Study of a Shared-Use Commercial Kitchen in
Eastern Connecticut Hedley Freake and Phoebe Godfrey 9. Developing a Food
System-Sensitive Methodology to Transform Food "Waste," Create New Food
Businesses, and Address Hunger in Urban Communities Thomas H. O'Donnell,
Jonathan Deutsch, Cathy Yungmann, Alexandra Zeitz, and Solomon H. Katz
Part 3: Ensuring Food System Resilience 10. Food Safety and the Emergency
Food Supply Chain: Lessons from North Carolina Food Pantries Ashley
Chaifetz and Benjamin Chapman 11. Creating a Resilience Assessment
Framework for Urban Food Systems Kimberly Zeuli and Austin Nijhuis