This tag was created by Maria Frank.  The last update was by Food and Society Workshop.

Field Guides to Food

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
 
There are several ways of looking at the term food system:Most definitions vary in the scope and specificity of the elements included, as above. Some include factors external to other definitions or not explicitly considered......and some focus on the global or local food system, and/or include social and environment considerations.

Related terms: supply chain, agribusiness, scale, systems / systems thinking, networks

This page has paths:

  1. FoodWords Glossary Food and Society Workshop

Contents of this path:

  1. Institutional Structure
  2. Information / Knowledge Building
  3. Food Production, Processing, and Preparation
  4. Locations
  5. Transportation, Delivery, and Distribution Networks
  6. Global Scale

Contents of this tag:

  1. Models & Strategies for a Produce Distribution Plan (metadata)
  2. importance of creating anti-capitalist vision for food issues
  3. The Real Food Guide (metadata)
  4. Defining the Agricultural Landscape of the Western Lake Superior Region (metadata)
  5. Snohomish County Agricultural Sustainability Project (metadata)
  6. Food Stories: Growing, Eating, Thinking about Food in Southwest Minnesota (metadata)
  7. Graham Meriwether interview (metadata)
  8. Models and Strategies for a Produce Distribution Plan (PDF)
  9. How We Talk about Feeding the World: an IAS Symposium (metadata)
  10. Neoliberal Ebola: The agroeconomics of a deadly spillover.
  11. Industrialized Farming and Its Relationship to Community Well-Being (metadata)
  12. Real Food Challenge "Real Food Guide"
  13. A Guide to Local Food System Planning for Scott County, Minnesota (PDF)
  14. Exploring Maryland’s Agriculture, Food, and Public Health Landscape (PDF)
  15. A Science Roadmap for Food and Agriculture (PDF)
  16. Neoliberal Ebola: The agroeconomics of a deadly spillover. (metadata)
  17. Whole Grains in Schools: A Supply Chain Approach (PDF)
  18. Defining the Agricultural Landscape of the Western Lake Superior Region (PDF)
  19. New York State Foodshed Analysis
  20. Exploring Maryland’s Agriculture, Food, and Public Health Landscape (metadata)