For hunger-proof cities : sustainable urban food systems / edited by Mustafa Koc ... [et al.].

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TextPublication details: Ottawa : International Development Research Centre, c1999.Description: viii, 239 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

0889368821 (pbk.)
9780889368828 (pbk.)

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Hunger-proof cities
Sustainable urban food systems

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23 363.8 FOR 004627

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Table of contents

Contents:

Introduction: Food Security is a Global Concern / Mustafa Koc, Rod MacRae and Luc J. A. Mougeot / [et al.] Pt. 1. The Concept of Urban Food Security. For Self-reliant Cities: Urban Food Production in a Globalizing South / Luc J. A. Mougeot. Urban Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa / Daniel Maxwell. Combining Social Justice and Sustainability for Food Security / Elaine M. Power Pt. 2. Local Food Systems. Promoting Sustainable Local Food Systems in the United States / Kenneth A. Dahlberg. Community Agriculture Initiatives in the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, United Kingdom / Laura Davis, John Middleton and Sue Simpson. Developing an Integrated, Sustainable Urban Food System: The Case of New Jersey, United States / Michael W. Hamm and Monique Baron. Public Policy and the Transition to Locally Based Food Networks / Ellie Perkins Pt. 3. Urban and Community Agriculture. Urban Agriculture in the Seasonal Tropics: The Case of Lusaka, Zambia / A. W. Drescher. The Contribution of Urban Agriculture to Gardeners, Their Households, and Surrounding Communities: The Case of Havana, Cuba / Angela Moskow. Agriculture in the Metropolitan Park of Havana, Cuba / Harahi Gamez Rodriguez. People at the Centre of Urban Livestock Projects / Alison Meares. Measuring the Sustainability of Urban Agriculture / Rachel A. Nugent Pt. 4. Accessibility and Urban Food Distribution. Food Banks as Antihunger Organizations / Winston Husbands. Bottlenecks in the Informal Food-transportation Network of Harare, Zimbabwe / Shona L. Leybourne and Miriam Grant. From Staple Store to Supermarket: The Case of TANSAS in Izmir, Turkey / Mustafa Koc and Hulya Koc. A Nonprofit System for Fresh-produce Distribution: The Case of Toronto, Canada / Kathryn Scharf Pt. 5. Ecological and Health Concerns. Urban Food, Health, and the Environment: The Case of Upper Silesia, Poland / Anne C. Bellows. Reuse of Waste for Food Production in Asian Cities: Health and Economic Perspectives / Christine Furedy, Virginia Maclaren and Joseph Whitney. How Meat-centred Eating Patterns Affect Food Security and the Environment / Stephen Leckie. Farming the Built Environment / Elizabeth Graham Pt. 6. Engendering the Food System. Gender and Sustainable Food Systems: A Feminist Critique / Penny Van Esterik. Women Workers in the NAFTA Food Chain / Deborah Barndt. Canadian Rural Women Reconstructing Agriculture / Karen L. Krug Pt. 7. The Politics of Food and Food Policy. Contemporary Food and Farm Policy in the United States / Patricia Allen. Policy Failure in the Canadian Food System / Rod MacRae. Urban Agriculture as Food-access Policy / Desmond Jolly Pt. 8. Toward Food Democracy. Reaffirming the Right to Food in Canada: The Role of Community-based Food Security / Graham Riches. Youth, Urban Governance, and Sustainable Food Systems: The Cases of Hamilton and Victoria, Canada / Zita Botelho. Food Policy for the 21st Century: Can it Be Both Radical and Reasonable? / Tim Lang.

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"Most of the papers in this volume were presented at the International Conference on Sustainable Urban Food Systems...at Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto"--P. 4.

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Introduction: Food Security is a Global Concern / Mustafa Koc, Rod MacRae and Luc J. A. Mougeot / [et al.]
Pt. 1. The Concept of Urban Food Security. For Self-reliant Cities: Urban Food Production in a Globalizing South / Luc J. A. Mougeot. Urban Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa / Daniel Maxwell. Combining Social Justice and Sustainability for Food Security / Elaine M. Power
Pt. 2. Local Food Systems. Promoting Sustainable Local Food Systems in the United States / Kenneth A. Dahlberg. Community Agriculture Initiatives in the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, United Kingdom / Laura Davis, John Middleton and Sue Simpson. Developing an Integrated, Sustainable Urban Food System: The Case of New Jersey, United States / Michael W. Hamm and Monique Baron. Public Policy and the Transition to Locally Based Food Networks / Ellie Perkins
Pt. 3. Urban and Community Agriculture. Urban Agriculture in the Seasonal Tropics: The Case of Lusaka, Zambia / A. W. Drescher. The Contribution of Urban Agriculture to Gardeners, Their Households, and Surrounding Communities: The Case of Havana, Cuba / Angela Moskow. Agriculture in the Metropolitan Park of Havana, Cuba / Harahi Gamez Rodriguez. People at the Centre of Urban Livestock Projects / Alison Meares. Measuring the Sustainability of Urban Agriculture / Rachel A. Nugent
Pt. 4. Accessibility and Urban Food Distribution. Food Banks as Antihunger Organizations / Winston Husbands. Bottlenecks in the Informal Food-transportation Network of Harare, Zimbabwe / Shona L. Leybourne and Miriam Grant. From Staple Store to Supermarket: The Case of TANSAS in Izmir, Turkey / Mustafa Koc and Hulya Koc. A Nonprofit System for Fresh-produce Distribution: The Case of Toronto, Canada / Kathryn Scharf
Pt. 5. Ecological and Health Concerns. Urban Food, Health, and the Environment: The Case of Upper Silesia, Poland / Anne C. Bellows. Reuse of Waste for Food Production in Asian Cities: Health and Economic Perspectives / Christine Furedy, Virginia Maclaren and Joseph Whitney. How Meat-centred Eating Patterns Affect Food Security and the Environment / Stephen Leckie. Farming the Built Environment / Elizabeth Graham
Pt. 6. Engendering the Food System. Gender and Sustainable Food Systems: A Feminist Critique / Penny Van Esterik. Women Workers in the NAFTA Food Chain / Deborah Barndt. Canadian Rural Women Reconstructing Agriculture / Karen L. Krug
Pt. 7. The Politics of Food and Food Policy. Contemporary Food and Farm Policy in the United States / Patricia Allen. Policy Failure in the Canadian Food System / Rod MacRae. Urban Agriculture as Food-access Policy / Desmond Jolly
Pt. 8. Toward Food Democracy. Reaffirming the Right to Food in Canada: The Role of Community-based Food Security / Graham Riches. Youth, Urban Governance, and Sustainable Food Systems: The Cases of Hamilton and Victoria, Canada / Zita Botelho. Food Policy for the 21st Century: Can it Be Both Radical and Reasonable? / Tim Lang.

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