The Problem with Feeding Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Problem with Feeding Cities write by Andrew Deener. This book was released on 2020. The Problem with Feeding Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "For some, grocery shopping is an activity woven seamlessly into daily life. They make lists of foods they enjoy preparing and eating throughout the week, stopping by a market where we seek out the best deals and freshest foods among the broad range of items on display. However, access to this abundance is wildly unequal. Many Americans make long commutes to seek out affordable food, visiting corner stores for dry goods and distant markets for fresh fruits, vegetables, and meats. Poor people, and especially people of color, have significantly less access to the affordable bounty of large grocery stores. The Problems with Feeding Cities charts the massive infrastructures and systems that make it possible to consistently buy a wide range of groceries in one place for an affordable price and the communities that have been left behind in this food revolution. Tracing the growth of technologies including bar codes and storage facilities, networks such as distribution chains and transit systems, and social organizations including food banks and farmers markets, this book illuminates the long social history of today's urban food deserts. The unequal distribution of food and resources is closely linked to the rise and explosive growth of American cities, and the infrastructures that accompanied them affect us still"--
The Urban Food Revolution
The Urban Food Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Urban Food Revolution write by Peter Ladner. This book was released on 2011-11-15. The Urban Food Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Our reliance on industrial agriculture has resulted in a food supply riddled with hidden environmental, economic and health care costs and beset by rising food prices. With only a handful of corporations responsible for the lion's share of the food on our supermarket shelves, we are incredibly vulnerable to supply chain disruption. The Urban Food Revolution provides a recipe for community food security based on leading innovations across North America. The author draws on his political and business experience to show that we have all the necessary ingredients to ensure that local, fresh sustainable food is affordable and widely available. He describes how cities are bringing food production home by: Growing community through neighborhood gardening, cooking and composting programs Rebuilding local food processing, storage and distribution systems Investing in farmers markets and community supported agriculture Reducing obesity through local fresh food initiatives in schools, colleges and universities. Ending inner-city food deserts Producing food locally makes people healthier, alleviates poverty, creates jobs, and makes cities safer and more beautiful. The Urban Food Revolution is an essential resource for anyone who has lost confidence in the global industrial food system and wants practical advice on how to join the local food revolution.
Sustainable Food Systems
Sustainable Food Systems - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sustainable Food Systems write by Robert Biel. This book was released on 2016-12-05. Sustainable Food Systems available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Faced with a global threat to food security, it is perfectly possible that society will respond, not by a dystopian disintegration, but rather by reasserting co-operative traditions. This book, by a leading expert in urban agriculture, offers a genuine solution to today’s global food crisis. By contributing more to feeding themselves, cities can allow breathing space for the rural sector to convert to more organic sustainable approaches. Biel’s approach connects with current debates about agroecology and food sovereignty, asks key questions, and proposes lines of future research. He suggests that today’s food insecurity – manifested in a regime of wildly fluctuating prices – reflects not just temporary stresses in the existing mode of production, but more profoundly the troubled process of generating a new one. He argues that the solution cannot be implemented at a merely technical or political level: the force of change can only be driven by the kind of social movements which are now daring to challenge the existing unsustainable order.Drawing on both his academic research and teaching, and 15 years’ experience as a practicing urban farmer, Biel brings a unique interdisciplinary approach to this key global issue, creating a dialogue between the physical and social sciences
Women Feeding Cities
Women Feeding Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women Feeding Cities write by Alice Hovorka. This book was released on 2009. Women Feeding Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Analyses the roles of women and men in urban food production, and through case studies from three developing regions suggests how women's contribution might be maximized.
Feeding Cities: a Rural and Urban Planning Problem
Feeding Cities: a Rural and Urban Planning Problem - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Feeding Cities: a Rural and Urban Planning Problem write by Ibrahim A. M. Elsammak. This book was released on 1957. Feeding Cities: a Rural and Urban Planning Problem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
