Download or read book The Changing Seasons of Produce Distribution written by Elizabeth O. Christensen and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, a growing number of social groups, government agencies, academic scholars, and individual consumers have directed intense criticism towards the structure of the conventional food system, labeling the system as distorted and unjust. Their efforts are often broadly labeled part of the "alternative food movement". Much of the alternative food movement's attention has focused on producers and consumers, and the direct linkages between the two. Examples of these direct linkages include farmers' markets, Community Supported Agriculture and farmstands. Yet, there is growing concern that these efforts are not enough, especially since less than 0.5% of all agricultural products sold in the United States are sold through direct marketing (U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service 2012). These concerns point to a need to better understand the complex supply chain through which the vast majority of food, and in particular fresh fruits and vegetables, travels to reach end consumers. Namely there is a need to better understand the intermediates that stand between producers and consumers. Those actors that occupy the middle, referred to as intermediaries, play a unique role in the ongoing battle for knowledge, authority, and regulation in the food system. Simply by their position in the supply chain, intermediaries have the potential to act as mediators of power between producers and buyers. Power, as it is defined for the purposes of this study, is the ability of actors to influence the governance structure of the supply chain, thereby affecting the supply and demand of products traveling through those supply chains. Through the theoretical framework of agrarian political economy, and drawing on the methodology utilized in William Friedland's commodity systems analysis and Gary Gereffi's global value chains, I investigate the development of California's fresh fruit and vegetable growers and intermediaries and their progressive struggle to maintain legitimacy and relevancy in the increasingly concentrated and vertically integrated food system. My findings show that there exists a plurality of intermediary actors in the produce supply chain that do not neatly fall into the binary of alternative/conventional and that the reliance on this simplistic understanding of the food system is detrimental to efforts to create a more equitable and just food system.

Download or read book Changing Distribution Patterns in the U S Fresh Produce Industry written by Edward William McLaughlin and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Distribution Data Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Principles of Classification written by American Commerce Association and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Changing Seasons Macrobiotic Cookbook written by Aveline Kushi and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-07-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooted in centuries-old principles, the macrobiotic diet consists of simple yet highly nutritious foods such as whole grains, vegetables, and beans, selected and prepared in harmony with the seasons. From lightly sautéed spring greens and sea vegetables and refreshing summer salads, to harvest vegetables and hearty winter stews, The Changing Seasons Macrobiotic Cookbook provides hundreds of easy-to-follow and flavorful recipes for complete and balanced macrobiotic meals. A combination of great taste and whole foods, this is traditional macrobiotic cooking at its best.

Download or read book Classification of property for transportation written by American Commerce Association and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Electric Central Station Distribution Systems Their Design and Construction written by Harry Barnes Gear and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Encyclop dia of Agriculture written by John Claudius Loudon and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 1456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Freight Classification and Traffic Territories of the United States written by Elvin Sydney Ketchum and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Official Record of the United States Department of Agriculture written by United States. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Encyclopaedia of Agriculture written by John Claudius Loudon and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 1230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Integrating Food into Urban Planning written by Yves Cabannes and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The integration of food into urban planning is a crucial and emerging topic. Urban planners, alongside the local and regional authorities that have traditionally been less engaged in food-related issues, are now asked to take a central and active part in understanding how food is produced, processed, packaged, transported, marketed, consumed, disposed of and recycled in our cities. While there is a growing body of literature on the topic, the issue of planning cities in such a way they will increase food security and nutrition, not only for the affluent sections of society but primarily for the poor, is much less discussed, and much less informed by practices. This volume, a collaboration between the Bartlett Development Planning Unit at UCL and the Food Agricultural Organisation, aims to fill this gap by putting more than 20 city-based experiences in perspective, including studies from Toronto, New York City, Portland and Providence in North America; Milan in Europe and Cape Town in Africa; Belo Horizonte and Lima in South America; and, in Asia, Bangkok and Tokyo. By studying and comparing cities of different sizes, from both the Global North and South, in developed and developing regions, the contributors collectively argue for the importance and circulation of global knowledge rooted in local food planning practices, programmes and policies.

Download or read book Impacts of climate change on fisheries and aquaculture written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2019-01-06 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report indicates that climate change will significantly affect the availability and trade of fish products, especially for those countries most dependent on the sector, and calls for effective adaptation and mitigation actions encompassing food production.

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Download or read book Aquaculture written by John S. Lucas and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zeigt übersichtlich die wichtige und unterstützende Rolle der Aquakultur für die Lebensmittelsicherheit, den Erhalt der Lebensgrundlagen und die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung auf der ganzen Welt. Diese neue Auflage von Aquaculture: Farming Aquatic Animals and Plants beschäftigt sich mit wesentlichen Aspekten der Kultur von Fischen, Schalentieren und Algen in Süß- und Salzwasser. Zu den behandelten Themen gehören: Prinzipien der Aquakultur, Wasserqualität, Umweltauswirkungen auf die Aquakultur, Aquakultur in der Wüste, Reproduktion, Lebenszyklen und Wachstum, Genetik und Bestandsverbesserung, Fütterung und Herstellung von Futtermitteln, Krankheiten, Impfungen, Post-Harvest-Technologien, Betriebswirtschaft und Marketing, zukünftige Entwicklung der Aquakultur. In speziellen Kapiteln geht es auch um die Kultur von Algen, Karpfen, Salmoniden, Tilapia, Wels, Salz- und Brackwasserfischen, Weichschildkröten, Barramundi, Seegarnelen, Wollhandkrabben und sonstigen Dekapoden und Krebstieren, Muscheln, Gastropoden und Zierarten. In dieser Ausgabe wird die Aquakultur Chinas umfassender erläutert, auch die Bedeutung des Landes in einem globalen Kontext.

Download or read book Uniting on Food Assistance written by Christopher B. Barrett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the most essential causes and implications of these trends, which have expanded international food assistance well beyond the simple shipment of donated food aid commodities. We pay particular attention to how these trends shape and are shaped by European Union (EU) and United States (U.S.) food assistance policy and practice, and highlight the principles to which donors can adhere to move international food assistance forward.