Food production and consumption embody essential natural and metabolic processes that
cannot be completely controlled by capital or for capital [1, 2, 3]. Partly for this reason, food …

Urban food systems are connected with several pressing issues, including urban population
growth, resource scarcity, and climate change. To cope within these issues, urban food …

The urban food question is forcing itself up the political agenda in the Global North because
of a new food equation that spells the end of the 'cheap food'era, fuelling nutritional poverty …

Surplus food redistribution (SFR) is hailed as a 'win-win'strategy to address both household
food insecurity and food waste. However, SFR is condemned as being a 'band-aid'solution …

This paper investigates the factors driving food security in West African countries.
Specifically, it examines the impact of natural resource rents, institutional quality, and climate …

The papers in this special issue describe a research project in Ontario, Canada, that drew
on the expertise and embedded connections of faculty/activists and student/activists within …

Cities have begun to develop a more 'place-based approach'to food policy that emphasises
translocal alliances. To understand how such alliances develop distinct capacities to act, in …

Abstract The UN Food Systems Summit was an ambitious and hotly contested event that
brought competing approaches to global food governance into relief. In this article, we …

This chapter explores how food system governance has been addressed in academic
publications since the world food price crisis of 2007. It presents an overview of the …

While facing environmental challenges and rising concerns around food security and
equitable access to nutritious food, sustainable food practices (SFPs) have emerged as a …