Sustainable Food Systems: Building a New Paradigm (Earthscan Food and Agriculture)

Sustainable Food Systems: Building a New Paradigm (Earthscan Food and Agriculture)

by Adrian Morley (Series Editor), Adrian Morley (Series Editor), Terry Marsden (Editor)

Synopsis

In response to the challenges of a growing population and food security, there is an urgent need to construct a new agri-food sustainability paradigm. This book brings together an integrated range of key social science insights exploring the contributions and interventions necessary to build this framework. Building on over ten years of ESRC funded theoretical and empirical research centered at BRASS, it focuses upon the key social, economic and political drivers for creating a more sustainable food system.

Themes include:

  • regulation and governance
  • sustainable supply chains
  • public procurement
  • sustainable spatial strategies associated with rural restructuring and re-calibrated urbanised food systems
    minimising bio-security risk and animal welfare burdens.

The book critically explores the linkages between social science research and the evolving food security problems facing the world at a critical juncture in the debates associated with not only food quality, but also its provenance, vulnerability and the inherent unsustainability of current systems of production and consumption. Each chapter examines how the links between research, practice and policy can begin to contribute to more sustainable, resilient and justly distributive food systems which would be better equipped to `feed the world' by 2050.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 31 May 2015

ISBN 10: 0415639557
ISBN 13: 9780415639552

Author Bio

Terry Marsden is Director of the Sustainable Places Research Institute and Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability & Society (BRASS), Cardiff University, UK.

Adrian Morley is Food Smart City Project Manager for Universities West Midlands, Birmingham, UK.