From Food Justice to a Tool of the Status Quo: Three Sub-movements Within Local Food

Werkheiser, Ian; Noll, Samantha

doi:10.1007/s10806-013-9459-6

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“…Most literature, however, does not distinguish clearly between gardening activities and food production, which results in an apparent divide between urban agriculture and biophilia research. The multitude of benefits of urban agriculture within communities have been well established, and include fostering social interactions, educational opportunities, health and ecosystems services as well as community and economic development [40,42,[44][45][46][58][59][60][61][62][63][64]. All of these apply to green spaces as well.…”

Section: Food Related Wellbeingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Globalisation results in a power imbalance between consumers who have lost control over basic needs, such as food and energy, and multinational corporations that have little appreciation for the local social and economic culture of the community [61]. Local food can help give back communities that ability to control, understand and influence the food they eat [63]. This awareness is resulting in an influx of food sovereignty research and movements worldwide [36,93,98], which could have significant implications for the wider food system and political governance in the future.…”

Section: Urban Agriculture's Role In Food Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Who Cares? The Importance of Emotional Connections with Nature to Ensure Food Security and Wellbeing in Cities

2018

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Abstract:To be "connected" is "to care", because how and what we care about is influenced, and influences, what we are connected with. Emotional connection predicts environmental concern and children exposed to green environments take this appreciation of nature with them into adulthood. However, the majority of the human population is now living within urban areas, where opportunities for people to interact and bond with nature are greatly diminished, thereby potentially threatening the liveability of cities into the future. Connection with nature has been shown repeatedly to benefit human wellbeing and predict pro-environmental behaviours. By definition "nature" includes urban agriculture, which is also an integral component of a city's foodscape, thereby providing opportunities to improve the wellbeing of city inhabitants as well as help ensure food security. This will only be attainable if the next generation has an emotional connection to nature, and the necessary life skills to help them enter adult life as informed food citizens who make healthy and sustainable decisions for themselves as well as others. This paper reviews existing literature on foodscape (or one's food environment) and biophilia (the love of life or living systems) to highlight the need for inter-disciplinary research that combines urban agriculture and food literacy to ensure future food security and wellbeing of urban inhabitants.

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Section: Food Related Wellbeingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Urban Agriculture's Role In Food Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Who Cares? The Importance of Emotional Connections with Nature to Ensure Food Security and Wellbeing in Cities

2018

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“…This diversity is reflective of the civic goals and democratic principles of the local food movement (Lacy ; Hassanein ; Levkoe ; T. Lyson ). However, the political tensions that sometimes arise between actors and groups with competing agendas and perspectives can challenge the cohesiveness and vitality of LFSs (Hinrichs ), as well as diminish the overall capacity to reverse the ill effects of the global agricultural system (DeLind ; Guthman, , , ; Werkheiser and Noll ). Thus, a stronger understanding of the organizational and system‐level work that contributes to the development and operational diversity of LFSs, which is often entrepreneurial in nature, is needed (Mars and Schau ).…”

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What Is Local Food Entrepreneurship? Variations in the Commercially and Socially Oriented Features of Entrepreneurship in the Southeastern Arizona Local Food System

Mars

Schau

2017

Rural Sociology

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Entrepreneurial activities are sometimes framed as market‐based strategies that compromise the integrity of the movement against the global agrifood system. Other times, scholars have argued that entrepreneurship is a critical component of local food system viability. This study helps reconcile these conflicting views through a qualitative exploration of the variations in the commercially and socially oriented features of local food entrepreneurship in the southeastern Arizona local food system. Researchers gathered data between August 2014 and December 2016 through semistructured interviews with and direct observations of 36 southeastern Arizona local food entrepreneurs. A conceptual continuum that articulates the variations between commercial and social entrepreneurship according to market condition, mission, resource mobilization, and performance measurement guides the exploration. The findings reveal commercial and social variations in local food entrepreneurship to be assorted, yet synergistic enactments of the economic, environmental, and social conditions and principles that characterize the southeastern Arizona local food system. The findings push the local food entrepreneurship narrative beyond the limitations of a rigid activist‐market dichotomy by illuminating the synergistic complexities that influence the form and function of local food systems. The article discusses implications for both local food practitioners and scholars.

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“…In describing the enabling role of local food initiatives in transitioning towards more sustainable diets, research carried out so far has analysed different types of local initiatives, recognizing the wide array of local food initiatives that exist—from the more grassroots and community‐based initiatives to more privately‐owned, business‐like activities (Grando, Carey, Hegger, Jahri, & Ortolani, ; Holloway et al, ; Lamine, ). Much in the same vein, in their article on Food Justice, Werkheiser and Noll distinguish between three types of local food movements, depending on their focus: individual, system or community, and the role that each play in helping to transform the global food system (Werkheiser & Noll, ). Given the predominance of research—particularly in Italy—on community‐based initiatives with a strong activist/ideological slant, this article wishes to contribute to further understanding the contribution of more business‐oriented local food initiatives to a shift towards sustainable diets.…”

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Moving towards ecologically sustainable diets: Lessons from an Italian box delivery scheme

Mattioni

Caraher

2018

Int J Consumer Studies

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Conscious of the nutritional failings of the current food systems, there has been a call in the last decade or so to move beyond sustainable consumption and towards sustainable diets defined as healthy diets that also optimize the environment, food quality, socio‐cultural values, the economy and governance. Previous studies have shown how local food initiatives can lead to greater levels of sustainable consumption and healthier diets and have focused on the key role played by the conscious‐consumer. Analysing various types of local food initiatives—from community‐oriented to more private‐run activities—they have described the processes that local food initiatives set in motion to empower conscious‐consumers and to ultimately change habits and routines. Taking the specific case of a business‐oriented box delivery scheme in Italy, the article sheds further light on the mechanisms that enable clients to consume in more sustainable and healthier ways, with a central role played by learning, commitment and empowerment. Obstacles however exist in the form of the way people's everyday lives are structured, and the competing values that people draw upon in making their food choices. Support is therefore needed from public institutions to make it easier for people to choose healthier and more sustainable food provisioning systems.

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From Food Justice to a Tool of the Status Quo: Three Sub-movements Within Local Food

Cited by 40 publications

References 22 publications

Who Cares? The Importance of Emotional Connections with Nature to Ensure Food Security and Wellbeing in Cities

Who Cares? The Importance of Emotional Connections with Nature to Ensure Food Security and Wellbeing in Cities

What Is Local Food Entrepreneurship? Variations in the Commercially and Socially Oriented Features of Entrepreneurship in the Southeastern Arizona Local Food System

Moving towards ecologically sustainable diets: Lessons from an Italian box delivery scheme

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