Everywhere you look people are more aware of what they eat and where their food comes
from. In a cafeteria in Los Angeles, children make their lunchtime food choices at fresh-fruit …

De Graaf, producer of the PBS documentaries “Affluenza”(1996) and “Escape from
Affluenza”(1998); David Wann, a former EPA staffer and expert on sustainable lifestyles; and …

The last decade has witnessed a dramatic rise in global trade in food and agricultural
products. While much analysis has focused on the role of the World Trade Organization …

The growth in consumption of supermarket 'own brand'food lines is having a significant
impact on the organization and management of agri-food supply chains. In past decades …

Why does our global food system gives us expensive, unhealthy and bad-tasting food,
where we pay more for packaging and long-distance shipping than we do for the food itself …

A considerable literature addresses worker deskilling in manufacturing and the related loss
of control over production processes experienced by farmers and others working in the agri …

Tensions and conflicts are rampant in the US food system, occurring at epistemological,
political and institutional, socioeconomic, spatial, community, and organizational levels …

Community food assessments (CFAs) constitute a first step in planning for community food
security. Community food security is a situation in which all community residents obtain a …

The contemporary US food systemis characterized by both an unprecedentedconcentration
of corporate control as well as afragmentation of sourcing and marketingprocesses …

Organic and other environmental and social marketing devices seek to connect producers
and consumers more directly and reward environmentally and socially superior production …