1st Edition

Transforming Food Systems Narratives of Power

By Molly D. Anderson Copyright 2024
282 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

282 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

282 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book focuses on the contested nature and competing narratives of food system transformations, despite it being widely acknowledged that changes are essential for the safeguarding of human and planetary health and well-being. The book approaches food system transformation through narratives, or the stories we tell ourselves and others about how things work. Narratives are closely connected... Read more

Section 1. The Need for Transformation

Chapter 1. Why This Book?

Chapter 2. Do We Really Agree on Food System Problems and Goals?

 

Section 2. Competing Food System Narratives

Chapter 3. Significance of Narratives and Their Connections with Theories of Change

Chapter 4. The Value of Food: Commodity or Commons

Chapter 5. Mapping Power Flows in Food Systems

 

Section 3. Narratives of Transformation: What and Who Will Drive Change?

Chapter 6. What Drives Food System Transformation toward Regeneration? Narratives that Do Not Require Structural Transformation

Chapter 7. What Drives Food System Transformation toward Regeneration with Structural Changes in Power?

Chapter 8. Who Will Lead Transformation?

 

Section 4. Case Studies: International and Local

Chapter 9. International Forums: The CFS and the UNFSS

Chapter 10. Grassroots Initiatives to De-commodify Food Systems

 

Section 5. Can Food System Narratives Be Melded Together?

Chapter 11. Future Food System Narratives

Biography

Molly D. Anderson is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Food Studies at Middlebury Collegy, USA. She is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience at Coventry University, UK, and a member of International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems. She is co-editor of Food Insecurity: A Matter of Justice, Sovereignty and Survival (Routledge, 2020).