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Together at the Table: Sustainability and Sustenance in the American Agrifood System

Together at the Table: Sustainability and Sustenance in the American Agrifood System

Allen, Patricia

Paperback

Series: Rural Studies

Business General21st Century United States HistoryGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0271029773
ISBN13: 9780271029771
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Nov 17 2004
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.20 Depth: 8.87
Language: English

Everywhere you look people are more aware of what they eat and where their food comes from. In a cafeteria in Los Angeles, children make their lunchtime food choices at fresh-fruit and salad bars stocked with local foods. In a community garden in New York, low-income residents are producing organically grown fruits and vegetables for their own use and to sell at market. In Madison, Wisconsin, shoppers select their food from a bounty of choices at a vibrant farmers' market. Together at the Table is about people throughout the United States who are building successful alternatives to the contemporary agrifood system and their prospects for the future. At the heart of these efforts are the movements for sustainable agriculture and community food security. Both movements seek to reconstruct the agrifood system--the food production chain, from the growing of crops to food production and distribution--to become more ecologically sound, economically viable, and socially just. Allen describes the ways in which people working in these movements view the world and how they see their place in challenging and reshaping the agrifood system. She also shows how ideas and practices of sustainable agriculture and community food security have already woven their way into the dominant agrifood institutions. Allen explores the possibilities this process may hold for improving social and environmental justice in the American agrifood system.

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