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Feeding Cities: Improving local food access, security, and resilience book cover

1st Edition

Feeding Cities Improving local food access, security, and resilience

Edited By Christopher Bosso Copyright 2017
196 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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There is enormous current interest in urban food systems, with a wide array of policies and initiatives intended to increase food security, decrease ecological impacts and improve public health. This volume is a cross-disciplinary and applied approach to urban food system sustainability, health, and equity.  The contributions are from researchers working on social, economic,... Read more

1. What You Want, When You Want It?

Christopher Bosso

Part 1: Ensuring Food Security

2. Food Security as a Human Rights Issue

Sandra Raponi

3. Population Density, Poverty, and Food Retail Access in the United States: An Empirical Approach

Parke Wilde, Joseph Llobrera, and Michele Ver Ploeg

4. Super-sized Strategies for Improved Health: Does Reducing the Density of Fast Food Restaurants Matter?

Bakeyah Nelson and Karen Banks

5. From Food Access to Food Justice: A Case Study of the Somerville Mobile Farmers’ Market

Sara Shostak, Janaki Blum, Chris Mancini, Luisa Oliveira, Lisa Robinson, and Erica Satin-Hernandez

6. Farm to Home: Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program Access and Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Home Delivery for Homebound Older Adults

Mehreen Ismail and Cara Cuite

Part 2: Building Local Food System Sustainability

7. What Grows in East New York: ‘East New York Farms!’ and Expectations of Urban Agriculture

Sarita Daftary-Steel, Christine M. Porter, Suzanne Gervais, David Vigil, and Daryl Marshall

8. Feeding Community: A Case Study of a Shared-Use Commercial Kitchen in Eastern Connecticut

Hedley Freake and Phoebe Godfrey

9. Developing a Food System-Sensitive Methodology to Transform Food "Waste," Create New Food Businesses, and Address Hunger in Urban Communities

Thomas H. O’Donnell, Jonathan Deutsch, Cathy Yungmann, Alexandra Zeitz, and Solomon H. Katz

Part 3: Ensuring Food System Resilience

10. Food Safety and the Emergency Food Supply Chain: Lessons from North Carolina Food Pantries

Ashley Chaifetz and Benjamin Chapman

11. Creating a Resilience Assessment Framework for Urban Food Systems

Kimberly Zeuli and Austin Nijhuis

Biography

Christopher Bosso is Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Coordinator of the Consortium for Food Systems Sustainability, Health, and Equity at Northeastern University, Boston, USA. His areas of interest include food and environmental policy, science and technology policy, and the governance of emerging technologies.

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