Sustainable Food Systems Building a New Paradigm [Paperback]

In response to the challenges of a growing population and food security, there is an urgent need to construct a new agri-food sustainability paradigm. This book brings together an integrated range of key social science insights exploring the contributions and interventions necessary to build this framework. Building on over ten years of ESRC funded theoretical and empirical research centered at BRASS, it focuses upon the key social, economic and political drivers for creating a more sustainable food system. 

Themes include: 

• regulation and governance
• sustainable supply chains
• public procurement
• sustainable spatial strategies associated with rural restructuring and re-calibrated urbanised food systems
  minimising bio-security risk and animal welfare burdens.

The book critically explores the linkages between social science research and the evolving food security problems facing the world at a critical juncture in the debates associated with not only food quality, but also its provenance, vulnerability and the inherent unsustainability of current systems of production and consumption. Each chapter examines how the links between research, practice and policy can begin to contribute to more sustainable, resilient and justly distributive food systems which would be better equipped to feed the world by 2050.

1. Current Food Questions and their Scholarly Challenges: Creating and Framing a Sustainable Food Paradigm

Terry Marsden & Adrian Morley

2. Food Futures: Framing the Crisis

Adrian Morley, Jesse McEntee & Terry Marsden

3. European Food Governance: The Contrary Influences of Market Liberalization and Agricultural Exceptionalism

Bob Lee

4. The Public Plate: Harnessing the Power of Purchase

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