Download or read book A Food System Plan for Austin written by Bianca Bidiuc and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Austin, TX is a city with goals for a strong community food system, as expressed in the Imagine Austin comprehensive plan. The City proposes creating a strong local sustainable food system and increasing access to healthy food for all residents. However, these goals lack regulatory measures. Furthermore, while a few city departments, local non-profits, and other entities track food system activities, there is no comprehensive city effort to track food system data and measure progress according to food system goals. Food system planning is necessary for creating a strong community food system, but Austin lacks a food system plan to ensure goals are met through policies, objectives, and benchmarks appropriate for its food environment. A food system plan is a strategic tool adopted by local governments at the city, county, or regional level. Food system plans are shaped by the unique food environments of each community while adhering to current strategies in food system planning, leading to the main question of my research: what are best practices for creating a food system plan for Austin? This report will research food system planning and analyze five food system plans of four cities and one county in the United States and Canada – Seattle, WA, New York City, NY, Vancouver, Canada, Edmonton, Canada, and Multnomah County OR, – in order to create recommendations for a future Austin food system plan. While suggesting broad plan elements that should be included, the analysis will focus on three areas of interest for Austin; what role does geographical scale, such as neighborhoods or districts, have in food system plan implementation; which food system components are typically tracked and used as indicators; and, which entities are mentioned in reference to plan creation and implementation in the food system plan? The goal of my research is to provide the City of Austin with recommendations for creating a food system plan that is appropriate for the Austin context and, through collaborative efforts with diverse stakeholders and partners, the inclusion of meaningful indicators, as well as a holistic perspective that includes social equity, will strengthen Austin’s food system and advance Imagine Austin goals and the community’s vision for a sustainable local food system..
Download or read book Food Systems Planning in Austin Travis County written by Nicholas Taylor Wimberg and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The presence of food systems in the realm of planning has gained considerable recognition over the years. Healthy food access, urban agriculture, and sustainable agricultural practices seem to be of particular interest as these topics relate to other planning issues such as public health, placemaking, and resilience. Throughout this increase of interest by both citizens (consumers/producers) and researchers the majority of attention has been on how food systems affect cities and on those food injustices everso present in today’s world. I make the argument however, that if we hope to support prolonged growth and strength in our food systems (plans) we must also focus attention on the assumptions, worries, and needs of supply-side food systems stakeholders/actors such as farmers and farmworkers. I propose here, the need to consider farmer perspectives in the creation of an equitable local food system. With the pressure of urban growth in Austin’s eastern rural-urban interface, intervention will be necessary if we hope to preserve the prime farmland found here. Following theories of communicative planning, a comprehensive review of related literature and Austin/Travis County food policy documents will be compared against feedback from stakeholder interviews. This comparison will show how effective Austin/Travis County have been in achieving the sustainable food system they describe in their documents. I believe that farmers will provide valuable information on agricultural land use needs that has not yet been fully considered by Austin/Travis County in their work toward a more equitable food system
Download or read book Climate Impacts and Food Systems Planning written by Gabrielle Rose Patracuolla and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The innate human connection to nature is crucial to understanding how people interact with their food systems in the urban context. Increasing heat and drought will continue to affect the production and growth of agriculture in Austin, Texas as well as people’s ability to connect to the food system. Farmers in Austin are worried about increased impacts on production, distribution and income. Future projections show increases in heat and drought causing concern for the future of food production in the region. The City of Austin and other entities can help to create stability in an increasingly unstable climate
Download or read book Planning Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems written by Julia Freedgood and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covid-19 was a canary in a mine. It exposed the vulnerabilities of 21st-century food systems but did not create them. Since then, the world has faced a “polycrisis:” a cluster of weather-related crop failures, war-induced food and energy shortages, and import dilemmas with compounding effects. Going forward, we need to plan for more sustainable and resilient food systems that improve environmental outcomes and address economic disparities. But food systems planning is a relatively new discipline and guidance is scarce. This book fills that gap. Where most food systems planning has focused on urban issues, this book takes a holistic view to include rural communities and production agriculture whose stewardship of the earth is so critical to public and environmental health, as well as to ensuring a varied and abundant food supply. Its goal is to inform planning practices and follow-up actions for a wide range of audiences—from professional planners, planning commissions, and boards to conservation districts and Cooperative Extension to the on-the-ground change-makers working to strengthen America’s food and farming systems. Embracing the fact that the U.S. is highly diverse in its people, places, and politics, the book lifts up principles and successful examples to help communities develop strategies based on their unique assets and the needs and preferences of their people.
Download or read book Urban Food Planning written by Rositsa T. Ilieva and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly original work examines the rise of the urban food planning movement in the Global North and provides insights into the new relationship between cities and food which has started developing over the past decade. It sheds light on cities as new spaces for food system innovation and on food as a tool for sustainable urban development. Drawing insights from the literature on socio-technical transitions, the book presents examples of pioneering urban food planning endeavours from North America and Western Europe (especially the Netherlands and the UK). These are integrated into a single mosaic helping to uncover the conceptual, analytical, design, and organizational innovations emerging at the interface of food and urban policy and planning. The author shows how promising "seeds of transition" to a shared urban food planning agenda are in the making, though the urban food planning niche as a whole still lacks the necessary maturity to lastingly influence mainstream planning practices and the dominant agri-food system regime. Some of the strategic levers to cope with the current instability and limitations of urban food planning and effectively transition it from a marginal novelty to a normalized domain of policy, research, and practice are systematically examined to this end. The conclusions and recommendations put forward have major implications for scholars, activists, and public officials seeking to radically transform the co-evolution of food, cities, and the environment.
Download or read book Local government planning for community food systems written by Raja, S.; Sweeney, E.; Mui, Y.; Frimpong Boamah, E. and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last couple of decades, local governments have started taking action to address food system challenges. Many innovative food policies have taken place in cities in particular. However, despite major developments spearheaded by visionary local leaders and communities in recent years, local governments in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) continue to face major challenges in integrating food security, nutrition and sustainable food systems in their agenda. This publication introduces a new knowledge base for understanding food planning and governance processes and models in local governments of low- and middle-income countries, a valuable counterbalance to the prevailing literature and experience from high-income countries. It provides practical insights on the needs, challenges and opportunities in local food planning practice in three countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean. Based on reported cases, this publication offers a broad guiding framework and a methodology for subnational government bodies - including city, metropolitan, regional, distinct and parish governments - that takes into consideration the uniqueness of each local context.
Download or read book Building a More Sustainable Resilient Equitable and Nourishing Food System written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-03 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 22-23, 2020, the Food Forum of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a virtual workshop that explored the integration of the health, societal, economic, and environmental effects and future needs of the food system. The main objective of the 1.5-day workshop was to understand how to achieve a more sustainable, resilient, equitable, and nourishing food system. Workshop sessions examined three main dimensions of the food system: vulnerabilities, resiliency, and transformation. The workshop included discussions on global change, access to health and food, resiliency in complex dynamic systems and resiliency for the future, and consumption- and production-oriented strategies that could transform the food system. This publication highlights the presentation and discussion of the workshop.
Download or read book An architectonics of the U S food system written by William Gary Kline and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agroecology Now written by Colin Ray Anderson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book develops a framework for advancing agroecology transformations focusing on power, politics and governance. It explores the potential of agroecology as a sustainable and socially just alternative to today’s dominant food regime. Agroecology is an ecological approach to farming that addresses climate change and biodiversity loss while contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals. Agroecology transformations represent a challenge to the power of corporations in controlling food system and a rejection of the industrial food systems that are at the root of many social and ecological ills. In this book the authors analyse the conditions that enable and disable agroecology’s potential and present six ‘domains of transformation’ where it comes into conflict with the dominant food system. They argue that food sovereignty, community-self organization and a shift to bottom-up governance are critical for the transformation to a socially just and ecologically viable food system. This book will be a valuable resource to researchers, students, policy makers and professionals across multidisciplinary areas including in the fields of food politics, international development, sustainability and resilience.
Download or read book Strategies Policy Approaches and Resources for Local Food System Planning and Organizing written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Eastern Crescent and Beyond written by Veronica Yanil Romero and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 2050, urban areas will house 68% of the total global population (United Nations, 2018). As these areas expand, agricultural lands are lost to development. In the United States, the bulk of this agricultural land is located in the peri-urban fringe – a distinct area that exists between urban and rural areas and is characterized by prime agricultural soils and local production of fruits and vegetables (Optiz et al. 2015; Brinkley, 2012). When compared to other states, Texas’ peri-urban agricultural lands were found to be the most susceptible to land use conversion. However, a policy response to combat agricultural land loss is nearly non-existent (Freedgood et al., 2020). The loss of agricultural land is indicative of declining local food systems and food production. In addition to loss of agricultural land, local food production suffers from diminishing economic viability. Multifunctional agriculture is often recommended as a strategy for farm viability (Meert et al., 2005). Multifunctional agricultural encourages farms and ranches to diversify operations by providing diverse goods, services and experiences, such as educational workshops, farm-to-table eateries, composting, venue space, and more, in addition to food production (Zasada, 2011), This report aims to understand the state of and potential for local food production and multifunctional agriculture in the eastern peri-urban fringe of the Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown metropolitan area. This aim is fulfilled by employing three methods: 1) a quantitative assessment to determine the potential amount of fruits and vegetables which could be produced in the site, 2) a review of local government land use planning and policies, and 3) a multi-criteria analysis to identify suitable land for food production. The study area includes four counties and eleven municipalities in the eastern peri-urban fringe of the Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown metropolitan area in Central Texas. Findings indicate that although the study area can potentially support the estimated annual fruits and vegetables demand of residents within and nearby for the next two decades and that there is a cluster of large parcels suitable for food production, current local government land use planning and policies do not seem to support the local food system
Download or read book A Research Agenda for Food Systems written by Sage, Colin and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminating the global food system as a highly dynamic set of interconnecting interests that continues to drive rapid technological, societal, and cultural change, this cutting-edge Research Agenda examines the pressing issues that confront current food systems, and the emerging responses to them. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.
Download or read book Planning for Equitable Urban Agriculture in the United States written by Samina Raja and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book, building on the legacy of food systems scholar and advocate, Jerome Kaufman, examines the potential and pitfalls of planning for urban agriculture (UA) in the United States, especially in how questions of ethics and equity are addressed. The book is organized into six sections. Written by a team of scholars and practitioners, the book covers a comprehensive array of topics ranging from theory to practice of planning for equitable urban agriculture. Section 1 makes the case for re-imagining agriculture as central to urban landscapes, and unpacks why, how, and when planning should support UA, and more broadly food systems. Section 2, written by early career and seasoned scholars, provides a theoretical foundation for the book. Section 3, written by teams of scholars and community partners, examines how civic agriculture is unfolding across urban landscapes, led largely by community organizations. Section 4, written by planning practitioners and scholars, documents local government planning tied to urban agriculture, focusing especially on how they address questions of equity. Section 5 explores UA as a locus of pedagogy of equity. Section 6 places the UA movement in the US within a global context, and concludes with ideas and challenges for the future. The book concludes with a call for planning as public nurturance an approach that can be illustrated through urban agriculture. Planning as public nurturance is a value-explicit process that centers an ethics of care, especially protecting the interests of publics that are marginalized. It builds the capacity of marginalized groups to authentically co-design and participate in planning/policy processes. Such a planning approach requires that progress toward equitable outcomes is consistently evaluated through accountability measures. And, finally, such an approach requires attention to structural and institutional inequities. Addressing these four elements is more likely to create a condition under which urban agriculture may be used as a lever in the planning and development of more just and equitable cities. .
Download or read book Building Community Food Webs written by Ken Meter and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our current food system has decimated rural communities and confined the choices of urban consumers. Even while America continues to ramp up farm production to astounding levels, net farm income is now lower than at the onset of the Great Depression, and one out of every eight Americans faces hunger. But a healthier and more equitable food system is possible. In Building Community Food Webs, Ken Meter shows how grassroots food and farming leaders across the U.S. are tackling these challenges by constructing civic networks. Overturning extractive economic structures, these inspired leaders are engaging low-income residents, farmers, and local organizations in their quest to build stronger communities. Community food webs strive to build health, wealth, capacity, and connection. Their essential element is building greater respect and mutual trust, so community members can more effectively empower themselves and address local challenges. Farmers and researchers may convene to improve farming practices collaboratively. Health clinics help clients grow food for themselves and attain better health. Food banks engage their customers to challenge the root causes of poverty. Municipalities invest large sums to protect farmland from development. Developers forge links among local businesses to strengthen economic trade. Leaders in communities marginalized by our current food system are charting a new path forward. Building Community Food Webs captures the essence of these efforts, underway in diverse places including Montana, Hawai‘i, Vermont, Arizona, Colorado, Indiana, and Minnesota. Addressing challenges as well as opportunities, Meter offers pragmatic insights for community food leaders and other grassroots activists alike.
Download or read book Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Through Sustainable Food Systems written by Riccardo Valentini and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication offers a systemic analysis of sustainability in the food system, taking as its framework the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda of the United Nations. Targeted chapters from experts in the field cover main challenges in the food system and propose methods for achieving long term sustainability. Authors focus on how sustainability can be achieved along the whole food chain and in different contexts. Timely issues such as food security, climate change and migration and sustainable agriculture are discussed in depth. The volume is unique in its multidisciplinary and multi-stakeholder approach. Chapter authors come from a variety of backgrounds, and authors include academic professors, members of CSO and other international organizations, and policy makers. This plurality allows for a nuanced analysis of sustainability goals and practices from a variety of perspectives, making the book useful to a wide range of readers working in different areas related to sustainability and food production. The book is targeted towards the academic community and practitioners in the policy, international cooperation, nutrition, geography, and social sciences fields. Professors teaching in nutrition, food technology, food sociology, geography, global economics, food systems, agriculture and agronomy, and political science and international cooperation may find this to be a useful supplemental text in their courses.
Download or read book Achieving food system resilience equity in the era of global environmental change written by Albie F. Miles and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-02-27 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Food Leadership written by Catherine Etmanski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-09 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So much more than a human necessity, food is an entry point into a range of different topics: culture and tradition, health and well-being, small and large-scale business, ecology and politics, science and the arts, poverty and social justice, land use and civil society, global trade, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and more. From seed to table, the policies and practices related to all aspects of the food cycle create rich sites for learning and multiple opportunities for leadership. Although the topic of food has been gaining momentum in the field of Adult Education over the past decade, food has been relatively underexplored in the field of Leadership Studies. The purpose of this book, therefore, is to deepen our understanding and knowledge about leadership and adult learning in food-related movements worldwide. With contributing authors representing four countries and various Indigenous groups, this book examines the diverse ways in which food activists, scholars, students, and practitioners are already demonstrating, debating, and documenting leadership and learning in the context of global food systems transformation. Furthermore, it documents how these actions are supporting the innovation needed to address the increasingly complex and interconnected socio-economic and environmental challenges associated with food and agriculture. Whereas much leadership theory continues to be developed from cases in business, social movements, or other, more traditional leadership sectors, this book invites leaders and educators to look to their plates and, by extension, to local, small-scale farmers and to nature itself as sources of inspiration in their work.
