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Halfway Thoughts On Today’s Food Movements–Still Under Construction–Give Me Another Day!

March 15, 2018

HALFWAY THOUGHTS ON TODAY’S FOOD MOVEMENTS — STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION — GIVE ME ANOTHER DAY! Some people wonder if youthful food movements spreading through cities across the Global North are half-full, half-empty — or maybe even half-baked. The timing for such questioning is perfect. Once a new trend gets over its first flush, people start to judge it as a movement that […]

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Pandemonium and City Food Security

April 8, 2016

Pandemonium and City Food Security I supervised a university-level food studies class last week that, partly by design and partly by sheer accident, gave me some new insights into the challenges of city-oriented food security policy. A team of students responsible for teaching a segment on urban food policy tried to stimulate direct engagements with […]

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It’s the Food Economy, Stupid!

March 18, 2016

It’s the Food Economy, Stupid! I believe Rod MacRae (shown here) is one of a handful of experts to develop a critique of today’s food system based on its bad business case and its failure to do proper scenario planning. If you don’t like reading arithmetic, you will find his writings tough going, but as soon […]

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New Equations of Regions, People, Nature and Food Chains

March 10, 2016

New Equations of Regions, People, Nature and Food Chains We usually think of geologists as going deep, but when it comes to working through the layers of meaning behind local food, geographer Terry Marsden knows how to dig very deep. Marsden sees food as a uniquely human enterprise because it, more than anything else we […]

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How to Grow a Local Job-Rich Economy

March 3, 2016

How to Grow a Local Job-Rich Economy  At a time when huge debates are raging over all the subsidies required by the 1 per cent of the business elite, Michael Shuman is working to shift public attention to the other, ultimately more positive, side of the picture – the sheer neglect of the 50 per cent […]

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