{"id":10038,"date":"2015-07-14T07:04:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T12:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10038"},"modified":"2015-07-14T07:04:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T12:04:18","slug":"city-region-food-systems-part-iiia-scale-and-production-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10038","title":{"rendered":"City Region Food Systems &#8211; Part IIIA \u2013 Scale and Production Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"page-title\" class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcrn.org.uk\/fcrn-blogs\/michaelwhamm\/city-region-food-systems-part-iiia-\u2013-scale-and-production-strategy\" target=\"_blank\">City Region Food Systems &#8211; Part IIIA \u2013 Scale and Production Strategy<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>This is the first of a two-part blog looking at scale and production strategy.\u00a0 In this piece I analyze critiques of smaller scale and alternative production strategies from several angles.\u00a0 In the second I will discuss problems inherent in the argument that small scale can feed the U.S. population and consider a middle path of scale and production diversity. As in the previous posts (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcrn.org.uk\/fcrn-blogs\/michaelwhamm\/city-region-food-systems-%E2%80%93-part-i-%E2%80%93-conceptualization\">Part I<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcrn.org.uk\/fcrn-blogs\/michaelwhamm\/city-region-food-systems-%E2%80%93-part-ii-%E2%80%93-who-will-farm\">Part II<\/a>) \u2013 I invite your comments, suggestions, and criticisms.<\/p>\n<p>My analysis of this derives from my thinking over the last twenty years as well as engagement in a broad range of food system localization efforts. Early in the noughts I gave a conference plenary talk and made the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d like to live in a food system in which I know where a significant percentage of my food comes from, not necessarily all of it \u2026 I\u2019d like to know that the production, processing, distribution, and waste were done in an environmentally sensitive manner. I\u2019d like to know that the democratic principles upon which this nation (U.S.) was founded are made stronger and not weakened through consolidation and monopolization. I\u2019d like to know that the farmers who grow our food are honored as heroes and not marginalized as commodity producers. I would like to know that every person and consumer working in the food system has the opportunity to reach their potential and is not limited by less than living-wage jobs, poor nutrition, and substandard education. I would like a food system in which food is a right and working honestly is a responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fcrn.org.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/admin\/1\/image003_1.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Fibonacci Blue on Flickr\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">That still resonates with me and is the starting point for much of my thinking.\u00a0 It is also at odds with the notion that the only way to \u2018feed the world\u2019 is by large scale, conventional, commodity-driven agriculture.\u00a0 It is also at odds with the notion that we can continue consuming an average U.S. diet that is so at odds with eating patterns that are both healthier for people and the environment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City Region Food Systems &#8211; Part IIIA \u2013 Scale and Production Strategy This is the first of a two-part blog looking at scale and production strategy.\u00a0 In this piece I analyze critiques of smaller scale and alternative production strategies from several angles.\u00a0 In the second I will discuss problems inherent in the argument that small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[319,7277,2404,7278,1912,323,7276,489],"class_list":["post-10038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-food","tag-food-distribution","tag-food-diversity","tag-food-processing","tag-food-production","tag-food-security","tag-food-systems","tag-localisation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10039,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10038\/revisions\/10039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}