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In an increasingly commercialized world, the demand for better quality, healthier food has given rise to one of the fastest growing segments of the U.S. food system: locally grown food. Many believe that "relocalization" of the food system will provide a range of public benefits, including lower carbon emissions, increased local economic activity, and closer connections between consumers, farmers, and communities. The structure of local food supply chains, however, may not always be capable of generating these perceived benefits.Growing Local reports the findings from a coordinated series of c
Food supply --- Local foods --- Local produce --- Locally produced foods --- Food control --- Food --- Produce trade --- Agriculture --- Food security --- Single cell proteins --- E-books
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Community-supported agriculture --- Farmers' markets --- Local foods --- Local produce --- Locally produced foods --- Food --- Markets --- Community agriculture --- Community-shared agriculture --- Community-supported farms --- CSA farms --- Agriculture, Cooperative
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"The complex relationship between subsistence practices and formal markets should be a growing matter of concern for those uneasy with the stark contrast between commercial and local food systems, especially since self-provisioning has never been limited to the margins. In fact, subsistence occupies a central space in local and global economies and networks. Bringing together essays from diverse disciplines to reflect on the meaning of subsistence in theory and in practice, in historical and contemporary contexts, in Canada and beyond, Subsistence under Capitalism offers a collective study on the ways in which local food systems have been repeatedly shoved into the shadows by the drive to establish and expand capitalist markets. Considering fishing, farming, and other forms of subsistence provisioning, the essays in this volume document the persistence of these practices despite capitalist government policies that actively seek to subsume them. Presenting viable alternatives to capitalist production and exchange, the contributors explain the critical interplay between politics, local provisioning, and the ultimate survival of society. Illuminating new kinds of engagements with nature and community, Subsistence under Capitalism looks behind the scenes of subsistence food provisioning to challenge the dominant economic thought of the modern world."--
Subsistence economy --- Local foods --- Capitalism --- Economic aspects --- Canada --- Economic conditions. --- Market economy --- Local produce --- Locally produced foods --- Economics --- Profit --- Capital --- Food --- Cost and standard of living --- Economic anthropology --- Poverty --- E-books
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Local foods. --- Local produce --- Locally produced foods --- Food --- Local foods --- Food supply --- Farmers' markets --- Markets --- Government policy --- E-books --- Community-supported agriculture --- Community agriculture --- Community-shared agriculture --- Community-supported farms --- CSA farms --- Agriculture, Cooperative
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Touching on everything from farm-based breweries and distilleries to urban hoop house farms to grass-fed beef, The Chesapeake Table celebrates the people working hard to put great local food on our plates.
Local foods --- Food industry and trade --- Food --- Food preparation industry --- Food processing --- Food processing industry --- Food technology --- Food trade --- Agricultural processing industries --- Processed foods --- Local produce --- Locally produced foods --- Processing --- Local foods. --- Food industry and trade. --- E-books
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"Focusing on local products, sustainability, and popular farm-to-fork dining trends, Earth Eats: Real Food Green Living compiles the best recipes, tips, and tricks to plant, harvest, and prepare local food. Along with renowned chef Daniel Orr, Earth Eats radio host Annie Corrigan presents tips, grouped by season, on keeping your farm or garden in top form, finding the best in-season produce at your local farmers' market, and stocking your kitchen effectively. The market section showcases what locally produced food will be available throughout the year, and the kitchen section is amply stuffed with more than 200 delicious, original, and tested recipes, reflecting the dishes that can be made with these local foods. In addition to tips and recipes, Corrigan and Orr profile individuals who are on the front lines of the changing food ecosystem, detailing the challenges they and the local food movement face. With more than 80 color photos, Earth Eats showcases local food at its finest and features everything the local grower and food enthusiast needs to know all year round, including how to cook up a healthy compost heap, nurture a failing bee colony, create an all-natural deer repellant, and ferment delicious vegetables."--
Natural foods. --- Local foods. --- Sustainable living. --- Ecological living --- Green living --- Living, Sustainable --- Alternative lifestyles --- Environmentalism --- Green movement --- Local produce --- Locally produced foods --- Food --- Food, Natural --- Health foods --- Natural food --- Organic food --- Organic foods --- Organically grown foods --- Whole foods --- Wholefood
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In recent years, all over the world, the attention paid to local and traditional productions is growing, especially in the agro-food sector. Maybe, it is not only due to the impact of globalization and the social and economic changes but also due to the increased consideration to health and nutritional aspects of food. Hence, for economic, social, historical, and nutritional reasons, this trend has led to the rediscovery and reuse of landraces of many different crops, responding to requests for more and more demanding market. This volume collects examples of local crops and old landraces of different areas of the planet that testify the extreme importance of the relation existing among a land, the local productions, the historical traditions, the conservation of biodiversity, the health benefits, the environmental impact and the local economies, also including the significance to dedicate resources to scientific researches in local crops.
Biodiversity. --- Heirloom varieties (Plants) --- Local foods. --- Local produce --- Locally produced foods --- Food --- Antique varieties (Plants) --- Crops --- Heirlooms, Horticultural --- Horticultural crops --- Horticultural heirlooms --- Old-fashioned varieties (Plants) --- Plants --- Plants, Cultivated --- Varieties, Heirloom (Plants) --- Plant varieties --- Biological diversification --- Biological diversity --- Biotic diversity --- Diversification, Biological --- Diversity, Biological --- Biology --- Biocomplexity --- Ecological heterogeneity --- Numbers of species --- Heirloom varieties --- Life Sciences --- Agronomy --- Agricultural and Biological Sciences --- Plant Genetics
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For nearly a century, the worldwide anthroposophical movement has been a catalyst for environmental activism, helping to bring to life many modern ecological practices such as organic farming, community-supported agriculture, and green banking. Yet the spiritual practice of anthroposophy remains unknown to most environmentalists. A historical and ethnographic study of the environmental movement, Eco-Alchemy uncovers for the first time the profound influences of anthroposophy and its founder, Rudolf Steiner, whose holistic worldview, rooted in esoteric spirituality, inspired the movement. Dan McKanan shows that environmentalism is itself a complex ecosystem and that it would not be as diverse or as transformative without the contributions of anthroposophy.
Environmentalism --- Anthroposophy. --- Human science --- Astrosophy --- Theosophy --- Waldorf method of education --- Philosophy. --- activism. --- activist. --- agriculture. --- american history. --- anthroposophy. --- buy local. --- ecological. --- ecology. --- ecosystem. --- environment. --- environmental activist. --- environmental movement. --- environmentalism. --- ethnographic. --- ethnography. --- farming. --- go green. --- green banking. --- historical. --- holistic. --- local produce. --- organic farming. --- rudolf steiner. --- small business. --- small farming. --- spiritual. --- spirituality.
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Bringing together a range of case studies from Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, Germany, Norway, Poland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Greece, this book compares and contrasts different models of food re-localization. It examines, from the perspective of all actors involved, how networks are built, what the vulnerabilities are, and the sustainability of rural development.
Agricultural diversification -- Europe. --- Agriculture -- Technology transfer -- Europe. --- Local foods -- Europe. --- Rural development -- Europe. --- Traditional farming -- Europe. --- Agricultural diversification --- Local foods --- Rural development --- Traditional farming --- Agriculture --- Business & Economics --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Agriculture - General --- Agricultural Economics --- Technology transfer --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Agriculture, Primitive --- Farming, Traditional --- Primitive agriculture --- Traditional agriculture --- Local produce --- Locally produced foods --- Diversification, Agricultural --- Diversification of agriculture --- Diversified farming --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Food
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Cheese is alive, and alive with meaning. Heather Paxson's beautifully written anthropological study of American artisanal cheesemaking tells the story of how craftwork has become a new source of cultural and economic value for producers as well as consumers. Dairy farmers and artisans inhabit a world in which their colleagues and collaborators are a wild cast of characters, including plants, animals, microorganisms, family members, employees, and customers. As "unfinished" commodities, living products whose qualities are not fully settled, handmade cheeses embody a mix of new and old ideas about taste and value. By exploring the life of cheese, Paxson helps rethink the politics of food, land, and labor today.
Local foods --- Food habits --- Cheese --- Cheese industry --- Cheesemaking --- Local produce --- Locally produced foods --- Food --- Dairy products industry --- Cheese making --- Dairy processing --- Dairy products --- Social aspects --- Cheesemaking - United States --- Cheese industry - United States --- Cheese - Social aspects - United States --- Food habits - United States --- Local foods - United States --- america. --- anthropological study. --- anthropologists. --- artisanal cheeses. --- artisans. --- cheese consumption. --- cheese lovers. --- cheese production. --- cheese. --- cheesemakers. --- cheesemaking. --- consumers. --- craft cheeses. --- cultural value. --- dairy farmers. --- dairy industry. --- economic value. --- ethnographers. --- food and culture. --- food and value. --- food labor. --- handmade cheeses. --- land use. --- living products. --- microorganisms. --- nonfiction study. --- plants and animals. --- politics of food. --- taste and value.
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