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Imagining Sustainable Food Systems Theory and Practice Edited by Alison Blay-Palmer ImagInIng SuStaInable Food SyStemS To our families, friends and communities of food with thanks Imagining Sustainable Food Systems theory and Practice Edited by alISon blay-Palmer Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada © alison blay-Palmer 2010 all rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. alison blay-Palmer has asserted her right under the Copyright, designs and Patents act, 1988, to be identified as the editor of this work. Published by ashgate Publishing limited ashgate Publishing Company Wey Court east Suite 420 union road 101 Cherry Street Farnham burlington Surrey, gu9 7Pt Vt 05401-4405 england uSa www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Imagining sustainable food systems : theory and practice. 1. Food supply. 2. nutrition policy. 3. Food industry and trade--moral and ethical aspects. 4. Sustainable agriculture. 5. Food supply--Case studies. I. blay-Palmer, alison, 1961- 338.1'9-dc22 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data blay-Palmer, alison, 1961- Imagining sustainable food systems : theory and practice / by alison blay-Palmer. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 978-0-7546-7816-8 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-0-7546-9609-4 (ebook) 1. Sustainable agriculture. 2. Food supply--International cooperation. 3. Food security. I. title. S494.5.S86b587 2010 630--dc22 2010015520 ISBN 9780754678168 (hbk) ISBN 9780754696094 (ebk) Contents List of Figures vii Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgements xi PArT 1: InTerrogATIng SuSTAInABLe FooD SySTemS 1 Imagining Sustainable Food Systems 3 Alison Blay-Palmer 2 Conceptualizing and Creating Sustainable Food Systems: How Interdisciplinarity can Help 17 Clare Hinrichs 3 Sustainability: a tool for Food System reform? 37 Mustafa Koc PArT 2: InCLuSIon AnD exCLuSIon In SuSTAInABLe FooD SySTemS 4 greening the realm: Sustainable Food Chains and the Public Plate 49 Kevin Morgan 5 Thinking About Labour in Alternative Food Systems 71 Yael Levitte 6 the urban F ood desert: Spatial Inequality or opportunity for Change? 87 Ellen Desjardins PArT 3: The CASe For SuSTAInABLe FooD SySTemS 7 Food Systems Planning and Sustainable Cities and regions: the role of the Firm in Sustainable Food Capitalism 115 Betsy Donald vi Imagining Sustainable Food Systems 8 the nexus between alternative Food Systems and entrepreneurism: three local Stories 135 Hélène St. Jacques 9 Scaling up: bringing Public Institutions and Food Service Corporations into the Project for a local, Sustainable Food System in ontario 157 Harriet Friedmann 10 Food Policy encounters of a third Kind: How the toronto Food Policy Council Socializes for Sustain-ability 173 Wayne Roberts 11 Food Insecurity in the land of Plenty: the Windermere Valley Paradox 201 Alison Bell 12 Imagining Sustainable Food Systems: the Path to regenerative Food Systems 223 Alison Blay-Palmer and Mustafa Koc Index 247 list of Figures 4.1 Commonly cited barriers to sustainable procurement 63 8.1 onFC warehouse 138 8.2 mapletons’ logo 142 8.3 mapleton sales sheet 143 8.4 arwa hillside 144 8.5 Inside the mapleton’s store 145 8.6 Wagon ride 148 8.7 tractor ride 149 8.8 long Point regional Conservation authority tour 152 8.9 Prairie grass 153 8.10 bee in a bore hole 154 12.1 Policy, socio-communal, economic and environmental spaces through a Sustainable Food Systems lens 225 This page has been left blank intentionally notes on Contributors Alison Bell, Chef training teacher and Program Co-ordinator at the david thompson Secondary School, Invermere, british Columbia. Alison Blay-Palmer, associate Professor in the department of geography and environmental Studies at Wilfrid laurier university. ellen Desjardins, Registered dietitian (R.D.) and Doctoral student in the department of geography and environmental Studies, Wilfrid laurier university. Betsy Donald, associate Professor in the department of geography at Queen’s university. harriet Friedmann, Professor of Sociology at the university of toronto mississauga and the Centre for International Studies, university of toronto. Clare hinrichs, associate Professor of rural Sociology at the Pennsylvania State university. mustafa Koc, associate Professor in the department of Sociology, ryerson university, toronto. yael Levitte, executive director in the adVanCe Center at Cornell university. Kevin morgan, Professor of governance and development in the School of City and regional Planning at Cardiff university. Wayne roberts, manager, toronto Food Policy Council, Public Health, City of toronto. hélène St. Jacques, M.Ed., President, Informa Market Research Co. Ltd.

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"What defines a sustainable food system? How can it be more inclusive? How do local and global scales interact and how does power flow within food systems? How to encourage an interdisciplinary approach to realizing sustainable food systems? And how to activate change? These questions are considered
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