Despite the various studies on food governance structured around alternative food systems
(AFS), analysis of the essential characteristics of it which facilitate the sustainability of the …

This article addresses the potential for food movements to bring about substantive changes
to the current global food system. After describing the current corporate food regime, we …

In the 1930s, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) graded the mortgage security of
urban US neighborhoods. In doing so, the HOLC engaged in the practice, imbued with …

Although the concept of food sovereignty is rooted in International Peasant Movements
across the global south, activists have recently called for the adoption of this framework …

A rallying cry to link the food justice movement to broader social justice debates The United
States is a nation of foodies and food activists, many of them progressives, and yet their …

Despite the connections between soils and human health, there has not been a great
amount of attention focused on this area when compared to many other fields of scientific …

Political Agroecology is the first book to offer a systematic and articulated reflection on
Political Agroecology from the Agroecological perspective. It defines the disciplinary field …

The industrial food system has created a crisis in the United States that is characterized by
abundant food for privileged citizens and “food deserts” for the historically marginalized. In …

Cities and Agriculture Page 1 Page 2 CITIES AND AGRICULTURE As people increasingly
migrate to urban settings and more than half of the world’s population now lives in cities, it is …

Local food councils (LFCs) have been studied through different lenses and different
disciplines across the social sciences since their beginning in the 1980s in North America …