Creating Food Futures : Trade, Ethics and the Environment.
Title:
Creating Food Futures : Trade, Ethics and the Environment.
Author:
Jiggins, Janice.
ISBN:
9781409402770
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (271 pages)
Series:
Corporate Social Responsibility
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Acronyms -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Creating Food Futures: Trade, Ethics and the Environment -- Part I The Big Picture: Innovations that Enable Action -- 2 The Retail-Led Transformation of Agrifood Systems -- 3 Regulation, Sovereignty and Accountability in the Food Chain -- 4 Innovation in Policy: The Common Agricultural Policy and Dimensions of Regime Change -- 5 The Swedish Foodshed: Re-imagining Our Support Area -- 6 Growing Sustainable Communities: Understanding the Social-Economic Footprints of Organic Family Farms -- Part II Case Studies: Innovations in Stakeholder and Organisational Relationships -- 7 Balancing Business and Empowerment in Fair Fruit Chains: The Experience of Solidaridad -- 8 The FoodTrust of Prince Edward Island, Canada -- 9 Beyond Profit Making: Combining Economic and Social Goals in the German Organic Agriculture and Food Sector -- 10 The Cornwall Food Programme -- 11 Ethics in French Wine Cooperatives: Part of a Social Movement? -- Part III Changing the Rules of the Game -- 12 Impacts of the Supermarket Revolution and the Policy and Strategic Responses -- 13 Supermarkets: A Force for the Good? -- 14 Mixing is the Way of the World: A New Social Label -- 15 Responsibility in Value Chains and Capability Structures -- 16 Food, Environment, and the Good Life -- 17 Conversion or Co-option? The Implications of 'Mainstreaming' for Producer and Consumer Agency within Fair Trade Networks -- 18 Towards a New Agenda -- Index.
Abstract:
A global transformation in food supply and consumption is placing our food security at risk. What changes need to be made to the ways we trade, process and purchase our food if everyone in the world is going to have enough wholesome food to eat? Is there genuine scope for creating food futures that embrace considerations such as ecological sustainability and social equity as well as placing good food on the table - and making money? Drawing upon examples of innovative food chains in Europe, Canada, Africa and Latin America, leading academics and practitioners challenge the idea that individuals are powerless in the face of global supply chains and the legal apparatus protecting them. The authors do not, however, underestimate the scale of the task at hand. They explore the tensions and dilemmas inherent in innovative practice - such as the ethics of mainstreaming, balancing a variety of goals and the ways in which success is defined - as well as presenting success stories and explaining how they were achieved.Creating Food Futures provides you with inspiring examples of what is being done and thought-provoking suggestions for future work.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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