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Summary
Summary
A global transformation in food supply and consumption is placing our food security at risk. What changes need to be made to the ways we trade, process and purchase our food if everyone in the world is going to have enough wholesome food to eat? Is there genuine scope for creating food futures that embrace considerations such as ecological sustainability and social equity as well as placing good food on the table - and making money? Drawing upon examples of innovative food chains in Europe, Canada, Africa and Latin America, leading academics and practitioners challenge the idea that individuals are powerless in the face of global supply chains and the legal apparatus protecting them. The authors do not, however, underestimate the scale of the task at hand. They explore the tensions and dilemmas inherent in innovative practice - such as the ethics of mainstreaming, balancing a variety of goals and the ways in which success is defined - as well as presenting success stories and explaining how they were achieved. Creating Food Futures provides you with inspiring examples of what is being done and thought-provoking suggestions for future work.
Author Notes
Cathy Rozel Farnworth trained in rural development studies and gender analysis and has lived and worked in developing countries and in Europe. She works on the development of locally defined quality of life indicators, on participatory research and development, and on ethical value chains and marketing. Janice Jiggins trained in history and political science. She has worked in the field in developing countries and in Europe on agricultural development policy, sustainable farming and natural resource management. Janice was Professor of Human Ecology at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and is currently a Guest Researcher at Wageningen University in The Netherlands. She specializes in participatory plant breeding, integrated pest management and in gender equity and social inclusion. Emyr Vaughan Thomas has a doctorate in methodological issues in the study of values and a Master's in environmental policy and planning. He worked on policy issues for many years for an environmental agency and is an Associate Lecturer with the Open University (UK). Emyr has published one book and a range of scholarly papers.
Table of Contents
Foreword |
Creating food futures: trade, ethics and the environmentCathy Rozel Farnworth and Janice Jiggins and Emyr Vaughan Thomas |
Part I The Big Picture - Innovations that Enable Action |
The retail-led transformation of agrifood systemsJulio A. Berdegué and Thomas Reardon |
Regulation, sovereignty and accountability in the food chainMegan Waples |
Innovation in policy: the Common Agricultural Policy and dimensions of regime changeEmyr Vaughan Thomas |
The Swedish foodshed: re-imagining our support areaSusanne Johansson |
Growing sustainable communities: understanding the social-economic footprints of organic family farmsMatthew Reed and Allan Butler and and Matt Lobley |
Part II Case Studies - Innovations in Stakeholder and Organisational Relationships |
Balancing business and empowerment in fair fruit chains: the experience of SolidaridadIrene Guijt and Edith van Walsum |
The FoodTrust of Prince Edward Island, CanadaWoody Wilson |
Beyond profit making: combining economic and social goals in the German organic agriculture and food sectorMartina Schäfer |
The Cornwall food programmeRoy Heath and Mike Pearson |
Ethics in French wine cooperatives: part of a social movement?Yuna Chiffoleau and Fabrice Dreyfus and Jean-Marc Touzard |
Part III Changing the Rules of the Game |
Impacts of the supermarket revolution and the policy and strategic responsesJulio A. Berdegué and Thomas Reardon |
Supermarkets: a force for the good?Robert Duxbury with Cathy Rozel Farnworth |
Mixing is the way of the world: a new social labelCathy Rozel Farnworth |
Responsibility in value chains and capability structuresJérôme Ballet and Jean-Luc Dubois and François-Régis Mahieu |
Food, environment, and the good lifeDavid E. Cooper |
Conversion or co-option? The implications of 'mainstreaming' for producer and consumer agency within fair trade networksStewart Lockie |
Towards a new agendaCathy Rozel Farnworth and Emyr Vaughan Thomas and Janice Jiggins |
Index |