Camille Tuason Mata

Marginalizing Access to the Sustainable Food System

An Examination of Oakland's Minority Districts

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a comprehensive analysis of the barriers and opportunities confronting minority communities' ability to access healthy, fresh foods. Mata uses three minority districts in Oakland-Chinatown, Fruitvale, and West Oakland-to examine the patterns of marginalization in relation to the sustainable food system of the California Bay Area.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 401g
• ISBN-13: 9780761860532
• ISBN-10: 0761860533
• Artikelnr.: 37042385

Autorenporträt

Camille Tuason Mata is a Philippine-born American who has been studying food systems and sustainability since 2000, when she began her graduate studies in urban and regional planning at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She subsequently went on to complete a MA in social change and development at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia, in 2002 and a MA in liberal arts with a concentration in environmental studies at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, in 2009.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Framing the Indicators for Measuring Minority Food Access
2. Community Food Security: An Evolving Concept
3. Localizing Food Security: Oakland's Experience
4. The History of Farming Access for Minority Farmers
5. Historicizing Access to the Sustainable Food System through CSAs,
Farmer's Markets, and Urban Gardens
6. Summarizing Marginalization and Concluding Remarks
7. Bibliography
About the Author