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The Uvm Food Systems Summit Makes More Room At The Table, Jane Kolodinsky
The Uvm Food Systems Summit Makes More Room At The Table, Jane Kolodinsky
Food Systems Summit 2014
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Racism And Capitalism: Dual Challenges For The Food Movement, Eric Holt-Giménez
Racism And Capitalism: Dual Challenges For The Food Movement, Eric Holt-Giménez
Food Systems Summit 2014
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Resistance And Innovation In The Evolving Urban Food System Of Monterrey Mexico, Craig K. Harris
Resistance And Innovation In The Evolving Urban Food System Of Monterrey Mexico, Craig K. Harris
Food Systems Summit 2014
Monterrey is the capital city of the state of Nuevo Leon in Mexico. Historically it is the leading industrial city of Mexico, with a strong history of foreign direct investment. Located in the northeastern part of the country, its proximity to Texas has fostered its status as a modern cosmopolitan metropolis. The past couple decades have been characterized by a history of violence, but that is now diminishing as citizens' groups are "taking back our city". The hot and arid climate of the region meant that, as the metropolis developed, it had to rely on some importation of food from …
"La Misma Realidad De Cada Lugar Es Diferente" ("The Same Reality Of Each Place Is Different"): A Case Study Of An Organic Farmers Market In Lima, Peru, Kevin Cody
Food Systems Summit 2014
Alternative food movements in North America and Western Europe have proliferated in recent years as producers and consumers attempt to reform what is perceived as a fatally flawed industrial food system. Meanwhile, agricultural producers in the global South are increasingly dispossessed of land and livelihoods as agro-industrial processes take on increasingly global dimensions. Given that many of the challenges facing small-scale producers in the North and South stem from similar patterns of agro-industrialization, might they also share similar responses to these challenges?
In this article I make a case for broadening the geographic frame of reference for alternative food systems …