Feeding the world depends on protecting our valuable ecosystems and biodiversity.
Currently, increasing public awareness of the problems posed by the current industrialized …

Using examples from the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper reviews the contribution a City
Region Food Systems (CRFS) approach makes to regional sustainability and resilience for …

In all cities and urban areas, the risk faced by people and assets from hazards associated
with climate change has increased (high confidence1). Urban areas are now home to 4.2 …

Using travel time to cities of different sizes, we map populations across an urban–rural
continuum to improve on the standard dichotomous representations of urban–rural …

In this second edition of The Sociology of Food and Agriculture, students are provided with a
substantially revised and updated introductory text to this emergent field. The book begins …

Agri-food systems (AFS) have been central in the debate on sustainable development.
Despite this growing interest in AFS, comprehensive analyses of the scholarly literature are …

The economic and social development of nations relies on their population having physical
access to services and employment opportunities. For the vast majority of the 3.4 billion …

Agroecology was formulated from a transformative epistemological standpoint that proposes
to do “science with people”(Guzmán et al., 2000; Francis et al., 2003; Cuéllar-Padilla and …

Commercial urban agriculture is typically restricted to agriculture land use, green or open
spaces, or under-utilised or undeveloped land. As urbanising cities face the double threats …

Alternative food systems and networks, which have emerged around the world, are often
fragmentary, reduced in size and frequently unfold in parallel, hardly linked to each other …