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The Food System
What are the major patterns of behavior, structures of sense-making, and physical spaces that shape actions? Are there few of these in play--or many? If an artifact points to forces larger than the individual actor, it deals with the theme of the Food System.
- Citing a 2007 APA paper, the 2013 CURA food narrative notes, "Food system is a term used to describe the range of agents, activities, and processes that are involved in growing, processing, distributing, selling, eating and disposing of food."
- An alternative vocabulary for describing the above processes would be "production, transformation, transportation, access, and consumption" [CITE?]
- In "Food Sovereignty in Northern Minnesota," Dawn Plumer explains that a food system can include "water, gardening, agriculture, hunting, gathering, home canning, food safety, fast food restaurants, fad diets, the grocery store clerk, food banks, preparing dinner, refuse collection, and obesity" (2009, p. 4)
- In "A Primer on Community Food Systems: Linking Food, Nutrition and Agriculture," Cornell University defines it as "all processes involved in keeping society fed; ie, growing, harvesting, processing, packaging, transporting, marketing, consuming, and disposing of food and food packages... [The food system] includes the inputs needed and outputs generated at each step... [and] operates within and is influenced by social, political, economic, and natural environments. Each step is also dependent on human resources that provide labor, research, and education."
- Cassidy and Patterson (2008) define a local food system as "a food system in which everyone has financial and physical access to culturally appropriate, affordable, nutritious foods that were grown without degrading the natural environment, and in which the general population understands nutrition and the food system in general."
Related terms: supply chain, agribusiness, scale, systems / systems thinking, networks
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- Models & Strategies for a Produce Distribution Plan (metadata)
- importance of creating anti-capitalist vision for food issues
- The Real Food Guide (metadata)
- Defining the Agricultural Landscape of the Western Lake Superior Region (metadata)
- Snohomish County Agricultural Sustainability Project (metadata)
- Food Stories: Growing, Eating, Thinking about Food in Southwest Minnesota (metadata)
- Graham Meriwether interview (metadata)
- Models and Strategies for a Produce Distribution Plan (PDF)
- How We Talk about Feeding the World: an IAS Symposium (metadata)
- Neoliberal Ebola: The agroeconomics of a deadly spillover.
- Industrialized Farming and Its Relationship to Community Well-Being (metadata)
- Real Food Challenge "Real Food Guide"
- A Guide to Local Food System Planning for Scott County, Minnesota (PDF)
- Exploring Maryland’s Agriculture, Food, and Public Health Landscape (PDF)
- A Science Roadmap for Food and Agriculture (PDF)
- Neoliberal Ebola: The agroeconomics of a deadly spillover. (metadata)
- Whole Grains in Schools: A Supply Chain Approach (PDF)
- Defining the Agricultural Landscape of the Western Lake Superior Region (PDF)
- New York State Foodshed Analysis
- Exploring Maryland’s Agriculture, Food, and Public Health Landscape (metadata)