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Author Tuason Mata, Camille, author

Title Marginalizing access to the sustainable food system : an examination of Oakland's minority districts / Camille Tuason Mata
Published Lanham, Maryland : University Press of America, Incorporated, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 152 pages)
Contents MARGINALIZING ACCESS TO THE SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEM; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Framing the Indicators for Measuring Minority Food Access; 2. Community Food Security: An Evolving Concept; 3. Localizing Food Security: Oakland's Experience; 4. The History of Farming Access for Minority Farmers; 5. Historicizing Access to the Sustainable Food System through CSAs, Farmer's Markets, and Urban Gardens; 6. Summarizing Marginalization and Concluding Remarks; 7. Bibliography; About the Author
Summary This book is a comprehensive analysis of the barriers and opportunities confronting minority communities' ability to access healthy, fresh foods. Mata uses three minority districts in Oakland-Chinatown, Fruitvale, and West Oakland-to examine the patterns of marginalization in relation to the sustainable food system of the California Bay Area
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-152)
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Subject Consumption (Economics) -- United States
Minorities -- Nutrition -- United States
Food supply -- United States
Minorities -- California -- Oakland
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Macroeconomics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
Minorities
Consumption (Economics)
Food supply
California -- Oakland
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021676172
ISBN 9780761860549
0761860541
1299874290
9781299874299