| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 283 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Connections between community food security and food system change / Steve Ventura and Martin Bailkey -- Land tenure for urban farming : toward a scalable model / Nate Ela and Greg Rosenberg -- Growing urban food for urban communities / Anne Pfeiffer -- Distribution : supplying good food to cities / Lindsey Day-Farnsworth -- Food processing as a pathway to community food security / Greg Lawless -- Markets and food distribution / Greg Lawless and Alfonso Morales -- The consumer : passion, knowledge, and skills / Monica Theis -- It all starts with the soil / Steve Ventura -- Uprooting racism, planting justice in Detroit / Jeffrey Lewis, Nicodemus Ford, and Samuel Pratsch -- Achieving community food security through collective impact / Greg Lawless, Stephanie Calloway, and Angela Allen -- Education and food system change / Desiré Smith and Steve Ventura -- Community and regional food systems policy and planning / Lindsey Day-Farnsworth and Margaret Krome -- Cultural dissonance : reframing institutional power / Erika Allen, Rodger Cooley, and Laurell Sims -- Innovations and success / Steve Ventura |
| Summary |
Good Food, Strong Communities shares ideas and stories about efforts to improve food security in large urban areas of the United States by strengthening community food systems. It draws on five years of collaboration between a research team composed of the University of Wisconsin, Growing Power, the Michael Fields Agricultural Institute, and more than thirty organizations on the front lines of this work. Here, activists and scholars talk about what's working and what still needs to be done to ensure that everyone has access to readily available, affordable, appropriate, and acceptable food. This book helps readers understand how a food system functions and how individual and community initiatives can lessen the problems associated with an industrialized food system |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 1, 2017) |
| Subject |
Food supply -- United States
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Local foods -- United States
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Urban agriculture -- United States
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Food supply
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Local foods
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Urban agriculture
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ventura, Steve, 1955- editor.
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Bailkey, Martin, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781609385446 |
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1609385446 |
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