Feeding cities : improving local food access, security and resilience/ edited by Christopher J Bosso.

This volume is a cross-disciplinary inquiry on topics relevant to urban food system sustainability, health, and equity. The contributions are from researchers working on social, ecological, political and ethical issues associated with food systems. Its focus is on the analysis of and lessons obtained from specific experiences relevant to local food systems, such as tapping urban farmers markets to address issues of food access and public health, use of zoning to restrict the density of fast food restaurants in the hopes of reducing obesity rates in poorer neighborhoods, building a local food business to address twin problems of economic and nutritional distress, developing ways to reduce food waste and improve food access in poor urban neighborhoods, and asking whether the many, and diverse, hopes for urban agricultural are merited. There is enormous interest in urban food systems and production among policy makers and citizens, with a wide array of policies and initiatives intended to increase food security, decrease ecological impacts and improve public health. This collection is premised on the view that it is critical to conduct research on existing efforts to determine what works and to develop best practices in pursuit of sustainable and socially just urban food systems. To be published in Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment.