The article presents a framework for understanding the relationship between community
garden participation, and the myriad ways gardens and participation lead to emotional …

Food systems primary goal should be to nourish human beings. And yet, the current
industrial food system, with its profit-maximising ethos, is not achieving that goal despite …

For many activists and scholars, urban agriculture in the Global North has become
synonymous with sustainable food systems, standing in opposition to the dominant industrial …

This important cultural analysis tells two stories about food. The first depicts good food as
democratic. Foodies frequent 'hole in the wall'ethnic eateries, appreciate the pie found in …

Urban agriculture (UA) is spreading across vacant and marginal land worldwide, embraced
by government and civil society as source of food, ecosystems services and jobs, particularly …

Ethical consumer discourse is organized around the idea that shopping, and particularly
food shopping, is a way to create progressive social change. A key component of this …

The food system, the most important driver of planetary transformation, is broken. Therefore,
seeking a sustainable and socially-fair transition pathway out of this crisis becomes an issue …

Much attention has been given in recent years to the rise of alternative food networks
However, the very concept of “alternative” has come under increasing scrutiny, as theorists …

Community gardens have been lauded for being inherently resistant to neoliberalism and
criticised for underwriting it. To move beyond this either/or debate, we need to employ more …

In the last decade, a large variety of grassroots actors–urban harvesters, guerrilla gardeners,
community growers and landsharers–have been promoting a diversified set of projects that …