1st Edition

Local Food and Community Development

Edited By Gary Paul Green, Rhonda Phillips Copyright 2013
104 Pages
by Routledge

104 Pages
by Routledge

104 Pages
by Routledge

Food has become an essential component in community development practice. Whether in reference to building a local or regional food system or addressing food insecurity, food has become a focus in community development approaches in many localities. Farmers markets, community gardens, farm-to-school programs, and other food-centered initiatives have been used to foster community development... Read more

1. Introduction  Gary Paul Green and Rhonda G. Phillips  2. Localizing Linkages for Food and Tourism: Culinary Tourism as a Community Development Strategy  Gary Paul Green and Michael L. Dougherty  3. Everyday Meanings of "Local Food": Views from Home and Field  Marcia Ostrom  4. Rethinking local business clusters: the case of food clusters for promoting community development  Davis F. Taylor and Chad R. Miller  5. The influence of community capital toward a community's capacity to respond to food insecurity  Jessica Crowe and Justin Smith  6. Investing in the social fabric of rural and urban communities: a comparative study of two Alabama farmers' markets  Abel Duarte Alonso and Martin A. O'Neill  7. "Growing Wellness": The Possibility of Promoting Collective Wellness through Community Garden Education Programs  Michelle L. D'Abundo and Andrea M. Carden

Biography

Gary Paul Green is a professor in the Department of Community & Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a community development specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Extension. His teaching and research interests are primarily in the areas of community and economic development.

Rhonda G. Phillips, Ph.D., AICP, CEcD is Associate Dean for Barrett, The Honors College and a professor at Arizona State University’s School of Community Resources & Development. Her research and service outreach includes assessing community well-being and quality-of-life outcomes. She teaches courses on local food systems and community development.