| Description |
viii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Food Security is a Global Concern / Mustafa Koc, Rod MacRae and Luc J. A. Mougeot / [et al.] -- Pt. 1. The Concept of Urban Food Security. For Self-reliant Cities: Urban Food Production in a Globalizing South / Luc J. A. Mougeot. Urban Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa / Daniel Maxwell. Combining Social Justice and Sustainability for Food Security / Elaine M. Power -- Pt. 2. Local Food Systems. Promoting Sustainable Local Food Systems in the United States / Kenneth A. Dahlberg. Community Agriculture Initiatives in the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, United Kingdom / Laura Davis, John Middleton and Sue Simpson. Developing an Integrated, Sustainable Urban Food System: The Case of New Jersey, United States / Michael W. Hamm and Monique Baron. Public Policy and the Transition to Locally Based Food Networks / Ellie Perkins -- Pt. 3. Urban and Community Agriculture. Urban Agriculture in the Seasonal Tropics: The Case of Lusaka, Zambia / A. W. Drescher. The Contribution of Urban Agriculture to Gardeners, Their Households, and Surrounding Communities: The Case of Havana, Cuba / Angela Moskow. Agriculture in the Metropolitan Park of Havana, Cuba / Harahi Gamez Rodriguez. People at the Centre of Urban Livestock Projects / Alison Meares. Measuring the Sustainability of Urban Agriculture / Rachel A. Nugent -- Pt. 4. Accessibility and Urban Food Distribution. Food Banks as Antihunger Organizations / Winston Husbands. Bottlenecks in the Informal Food-transportation Network of Harare, Zimbabwe / Shona L. Leybourne and Miriam Grant. From Staple Store to Supermarket: The Case of TANSAS in Izmir, Turkey / Mustafa Koc and Hulya Koc. A Nonprofit System for Fresh-produce Distribution: The Case of Toronto, Canada / Kathryn Scharf -- Pt. 5. Ecological and Health Concerns. Urban Food, Health, and the Environment: The Case of Upper Silesia, Poland / Anne C. Bellows. Reuse of Waste for Food Production in Asian Cities: Health and Economic Perspectives / Christine Furedy, Virginia Maclaren and Joseph Whitney. How Meat-centred Eating Patterns Affect Food Security and the Environment / Stephen Leckie. Farming the Built Environment / Elizabeth Graham -- Pt. 6. Engendering the Food System. Gender and Sustainable Food Systems: A Feminist Critique / Penny Van Esterik. Women Workers in the NAFTA Food Chain / Deborah Barndt. Canadian Rural Women Reconstructing Agriculture / Karen L. Krug -- Pt. 7. The Politics of Food and Food Policy. Contemporary Food and Farm Policy in the United States / Patricia Allen. Policy Failure in the Canadian Food System / Rod MacRae. Urban Agriculture as Food-access Policy / Desmond Jolly -- Pt. 8. Toward Food Democracy. Reaffirming the Right to Food in Canada: The Role of Community-based Food Security / Graham Riches. Youth, Urban Governance, and Sustainable Food Systems: The Cases of Hamilton and Victoria, Canada / Zita Botelho. Food Policy for the 21st Century: Can it Be Both Radical and Reasonable? / Tim Lang |
| Notes |
"Most of the papers in this volume were presented at the International Conference on Sustainable Urban Food Systems...at Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto"--P. 4 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Also available online via the World Wide Web, by subscription to ECHO (Ebrary) |
| Subject |
Food supply -- Congresses.
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Food supply -- Developing countries -- Congresses.
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Food supply.
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Nutrition policy -- Congresses.
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Nutrition policy.
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Sustainable agriculture -- Congresses.
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Sustainable agriculture.
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Urban agriculture.
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Urban health -- Congresses.
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Urban health.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Koc̦, Mustafa.
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International Development Research Centre (Canada)
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Ryerson Polytechnic University. Centre for Studies in Food Security
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| LC no. |
2001369510 |
| ISBN |
0889368821 |
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