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Fragen von Land sind angesichts von globalem Klimawandel, einer wachsenden Weltbevölkerung und mehrfachen Ernährungskrisen wieder in das Zentrum der Aufmerksamkeit gerückt. Im Zuge der „Wiederentdeckung der Landfrage" wurden auch die vielschichtigen Dimensionen von Land erneut deutlich, die Land von anderen Ressourcen unterscheiden. Land symbolisiert Gemeinschaft, Erinnerung, Erbe, Zugehörigkeit und Identität ebenso wie Eroberung, Enteignung und Vertreibung. Land ist materiell und physisch greifbar und umfasst neben seiner Oberfläche auch den Erdboden und den Zugang zu weiteren Ressourcen. Land ist produktiv – und damit direkt an das Überleben von Menschen gekoppelt. Dieser Band zeigt auf, wie Land aktuell neu ausgehandelt wird – als gemeinschaftliches Gut, Privateigentum, Nährboden menschlichen Daseins oder Finanzanlageobjekt – und verweist auf die Vorstellungen von Raum und Raumordnungen, die diesen Aushandlungsprozessen zugrunde liegen. This volume shows how land is currently being renegotiated as a collective commodity, private property, fertile soil for human existence, or as an object of financial investment by identifying the ideas of space and spatial order on which these processes of negotiation are based.
HISTORY / Modern / General. --- Agri-Food-System. --- Climate change. --- Country. --- Spatial policy.
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Agriculture plays a central role in Bangladesh's economy, especially in rural areas, and further progress in agriculture will remain important as Bangladesh's economy continues to evolve. Bangladesh has made significant agricultural policy reforms since the 1980s, which has largely contributed to achieving self-sufficiency in rice production. However, these policies are now creating headwinds, constraining the emergence of a more diversified production system. With rapid urbanization and income growth, dietary patterns are changing in Bangladesh and new market opportunities are emerging for diverse, safe, and nutritious foods. Thus, additional productive diversification in agriculture and modernization along the agri-food value chain are needed in order to allow the sector to seize the emerging domestic market opportunities. Promoting greater diversification and modernization of the agri-food sector in Bangladesh will require repurposing the country's agricultural support along with increasing private investment, both along the agri-food value chain and in support services to that chain. The agri-food ecosystem analysis in the report has identified critical constraints to the diversification and modernization of the agri-food sector. The major productivity constraints include land fragmentation and informality in the land rental markets; limited access to quality seeds for nonpaddy crops; limited knowledge of and adoption of good agricultural practices, reflected in unbalanced use and overuse of inputs; and limited use of farmer aggregation models, which constrains the delivery of extension services, access to financing, and linking with markets. Other key constraints, which are preventing off-farm value addition and commercialization in the sector, include the limited number of formal off-takers; inadequate and costly marketing infrastructure and logistic services; inadequate upholding of appropriate food safety practices and product quality standards; and a poorly designed export subsidy policy. These constraints are exacerbated by other cross-sectoral issues, such as access to finance, and the overall challenges of the investment climate and competitiveness.
Diversification --- Food Processing --- Food Safety --- Food System --- Mechanization --- Modernization --- Rural Transformation --- Value Addition --- Value-Chain
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This book features a comprehensive foresight assessment, exploring the pressures — threats as well as opportunities — on the global agriculture & food systems between now and 2050. The overarching aim is to help readers understand the context, by analyzing global trends and anticipating change for better planning and constructing pathways from the present to the future by focusing on the right questions and problems. The book contextualizes the role of international agricultural research in addressing the complex challenges posed by UN 2030 Agenda and beyond, and identifies the decisions that scientific leaders, donors and policy makers need to take today, and in the years ahead, to ensure that a global population rising to nine billion or more combined with rising incomes and changing diets can be fed sustainably and equitably, in the face of the growing climate threats.
Policy --- Global Trends --- Climate Change --- Nutrition --- Technology --- Agri-Food System --- Agriculture --- UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development --- Foresight
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For most people, grocery shopping is a mundane activity. Few stop to think about the massive, global infrastructure that makes it possible to buy Chilean grapes in a Philadelphia supermarket in the middle of winter. Yet every piece of food represents an interlocking system of agriculture, manufacturing, shipping, logistics, retailing, and nonprofits that controls what we eat-or don't. 'The Problem with Feeding Cities' is a sociological and historical examination of how this remarkable network of abundance and convenience came into being over the last century. It looks at how the US food system transformed from feeding communities to feeding the entire nation, and it reveals how a process that was once about fulfilling basic needs became focused on satisfying profit margins. It is also a story of how this system fails to feed people, especially in the creation of food deserts.
Food supply --- Food security --- economic sociology. --- environmental studies. --- food system. --- infrastructure. --- organizations. --- science and technology studies. --- urban development. --- urban sociology.
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The digital agriculture revolution holds a promise to build an agriculture and food system that is efficient, environmentally sustainable, and equitable, one that can help deliver the Sustainable Development Goals. Unlike past technological revolutions in agriculture, which began on farms, the current revolution is being sparked at multiple points along the agrifood value chain. The change is driven by the ability to collect, use, and analyze massive amounts of machine-readable data about practically every aspect of the value chain, and by the emergence of digital platforms disrupting existing business models. All this allows for drastically reduced transaction costs and pervasive information asymmetries that plague the agrifood system. The success of the digital transformation, however, is not guaranteed as the risks it brings are numerous, including those related to data governance and inadequate competition within and between digital platforms. What's Cooking: Digital Transformation of the Agrifood System investigates how digital technologies can accelerate the transformation of the agrifood system by increasing efficiency on the farm; improving farmers' access to output, input, and financial markets; strengthening quality control and traceability; and improving the design and delivery of agriculture policies. It also identifies a key role for the public sector in maximizing the benefits of this process while minimizing its risks, through enabling an innovation ecosystem featuring open datasets, digital platforms, digital entrepreneurship, digital payment systems, and digital skills and encouraging equitable technology adoption.
Digital Divide --- Digital Platforms --- Digital Technologies --- Efficiency --- Environmental Sustainability --- Equity --- Food System --- Information Asymmetries --- Innovation Ecosystem --- Transaction Costs
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This open access book takes the upheaval of the global COVID-19 pandemic as a springboard from which to interrogate a larger set of structural, environmental and political fault lines running through the global food system. In a context in which disruptions to the production, distribution, and consumption of food are figured as exceptions to the smooth, just-in-time efficiencies of global supply chains, these essays reveal the global food system as one that is inherently disruptive of human lives and flourishing, and of relationships between people, places, and environments. The pandemic thus represents a particular, acute moment of disruption, offering a lens on a deeper, longer set of systemic processes, and shining new light on transformational possibilities.
Human geography --- Anthropology --- Society & social sciences --- food system --- supply chain --- COVID --- pandemic --- crisis --- production --- labour --- Indigenous studies --- postcolonial studies --- cultural studies --- food sovereignty --- alternative food --- farmworker collectives
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Short food supply chains (SFSCs) seem to be growing fast, including in Wallonia. These local food systems bring social and environmental proximity back into fashion, while they had been heavily affected by intensive agriculture and the growth of mass retailing. However, most people are still using mass distribution. In this context, we might question what the future could bring for SFSCs and how they could attract more customers. This report aims at answering these questions by studying a Namur-based food cooperative, Paysans-Artisans, which sells products from local farmers and artisans supporting sustainable agriculture. Throughout a complete business analysis based on its actual business model, its strengths, weaknesses and opportunities could be assessed. Amongst them we can highlight the global lack of SFSCs awareness, although it is a fast growing market. Paysans-Artisans’ distribution channels seem too restricted and prevent more customers from accessing it. Hence a unique and very limited customer segment is targeted. Two Business Model Canvas were then designed to answer these findings. The first one is focused on developing a B2B wholesaler service. The second one is aimed at building a “short food supply chains hub” in Namur, including a local grocery shop. These business models could help respond to customers’ needs while promoting SFSCs fundamental values and ideology.
circuit court --- stratégie --- Wallonie --- développement --- alimentaire --- modèle économique --- Short food supply chains --- SFSC --- Wallonia --- local food system --- business model --- business model canvas --- Sciences économiques & de gestion > Stratégie & innovation
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This open access book brings together varying perspectives for transformational change needed in India’s agriculture and allied sectors. Stressing the need of thinking for a post-Green Revolution future, the book promotes approaching this change through eight broad areas, indicating the policy shifts needed to meet the challenges for the coming decade (2021-2030). The book comprises of ten contributions. Apart from the overview chapter on transformational change and the concluding chapter on pathways for 2030, there are eight thematic chapters on topics such as transforming Indian agriculture, dietary diversity for nutritive and safe food; climate crisis and risk management; water in agriculture; pests, pandemics, preparedness and biosecurity natural farming; agroecology and biodiverse futures; science, technology and innovation in agriculture; and structural reforms and governance. The writing style of these papers written by technical experts is forward-looking—not merely an analysis of what has been and why it was so, but what ought to be. This is an essential reading for those interested in agriculture, food and nutrition sectors of India, and more so their interconnectedness.
Agricultural science --- Food & beverage technology --- Biochemistry --- Sustainability --- Political economy --- Indian Agriculture --- Agricultural Transformation --- Food System --- Nutritional Security --- Dietary Diversity --- Sustainability in Agriculture --- Agricultural Policymaking --- Agriculture Sector --- Water in Agriculture --- Climate Crisis --- Natural Farming --- Agri Innovations --- Green Revolution
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Across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, urban farmers and gardeners are reclaiming cultural traditions linked to food, farming, and health; challenging systemic racism and injustice in the food system; demanding greater community control of resources in marginalized neighborhoods; and moving towards their visions of more equitable urban futures. As part of this urgent work, urban farmers and gardeners encounter and reckon with both the cultural meanings and material legacies of the past. Drawing on their narratives, Back to the Roots demonstrates that urban agriculture is a critical domain for explorations of, and challenges to, the long standing inequalities that shape both the materiality of cities and the bodies of their inhabitants.
Urban agriculture --- Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Massachusetts, farmworkers, farming, farmers, urban farmers, garden, gardeners, food, health, systemic racism, food system, food industry, racism, marginalized neighborhoods, equitable urban futures, urban gardeners, inequalities, inequality, land, soil, plants, field.
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The food system is broken, but there is a revolution underway to fix it. Bite Back presents an urgent call to action and a vision for disrupting corporate power in the food system, a vision shared with countless organizers and advocates worldwide. In this provocative and inspiring new book, editors Saru Jayaraman and Kathryn De Master bring together leading experts and activists who are challenging corporate power by addressing injustices in our food system, from wage inequality to environmental destruction to corporate bullying.In paired chapters, authors present a problem arising from corporate control of the food system and then recount how an organizing campaign successfully tackled it. This unique solutions-oriented book allows readers to explore the core contemporary challenges embedded in our food system and learn how we can push back against corporate greed to benefit workers and consumers everywhere.
Food security --- agriculture. --- agrofood system. --- alternative food. --- anti hunger activists. --- big agriculture. --- collective action. --- consumption. --- corporations. --- crops. --- drought. --- environment. --- environmentalism. --- ethical consumption. --- ethical eating. --- famine. --- farming. --- food deserts. --- food movements. --- food sovereignty. --- food system. --- globalization. --- good food movement. --- inequality. --- injustice. --- labor industrial relations. --- labor organizing. --- local food. --- nonfiction. --- pesticides. --- planting. --- politics. --- poverty. --- seeds. --- social justice. --- sustainability. --- wage inequality. --- workers rights.
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