Acknowledgments; Introduction: Food Security Is a Global Concern; Part 1. The Concept of Urban Food Security; Part 2. Local Food Systems; Part 3. Urban and Community Agriculture; Part 4. Accessibility and Urban Food Distribution; Part 5. Ecological and Health Concerns; Part 6. Engendering the Food System; Part 7. The Politics of Food and Food Policy; Part 8. Toward Food Democracy; Appendix 1. Abstracts; Appendix 2. Contributing Authors; Appendix 3. Acronyms and Abbreviations
Summary
For Hunger-proof Cities is the first book to fully examine food security from an urban perspective. It examines existing local food systems and ways to improve the availability and accessibility of food for city dwellers. It looks at methods to improve community-supported agriculture and cooperation between urban and rural populations. It explores what existing marketing and distribution structures can do to improve accessibility and what the emerging forms of food-distribution systems are, and how they can contribute to alleviating hunger in the cities. Finally, the book discusses the underly
