Sustainable food system assessment : lessons from global practice

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Label

Sustainable food system assessment : lessons from global practice

Title remainder

lessons from global practice

Statement of responsibility

edited by Alison Blay-Palmer, Damien Conaré, Ken Meter, Amanda Di Battista, Carla Johnston

Contributor

• Johnston, Carla
• Conaré, Damien
• Meter, Ken
• Blay-Palmer, Alison, 1961-
• Di Battista, Amanda

Editor

• Meter, Ken
• Di Battista, Amanda
• Johnston, Carla
• Blay-Palmer, Alison, 1961-
• Conaré, Damien

Subject

• Sustainable agriculture
• Food supply -- Environmental aspects
• Nutrition policy

Language

eng

Summary

"Sustainable Food System Assessment provides both practical and theoretical insights about the growing interest in and response to measuring food system sustainability. Bringing together research from the Global North and South, this book shares lessons learned, explores intended and actual project outcomes, and highlights points of conceptual and methodological convergence. Interest in assessing food system sustainability is growing, as evidenced by the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact and the importance food-systems initiatives have taken in serving as a lever for attaining the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This book opens by looking at the conceptual considerations of food systems indicators, including the place-based dimensions of food systems indicators and how measurements are implicated in sense-making and visioning processes. Chapters in the second section cover operationalizing metrics, including the development of food systems indicator frameworks, degrees of indicator complexities, and practical constraints to assessment. The final section focuses on the outcomes of assessment projects, including impacts on food policy and communities involved, highlighting the importance of building connections between sustainable food systems initiatives. The global coverage and multi-scalar perspectives, including both conceptual and practical aspects, makes this a key resource for academics and practitioners across planning, geography, urban studies, food studies and research methods. It will also be of interest to government officials and those working within NGOs"--

Member of

• Routledge studies in food, society and environment
• Free online access: Taylor & Francis

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Biographical or historical data

Alison Blay-Palmer is Director, Centre for Sustainable Food Systems and Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada Damien Conaré is Secrétaire general of the Chaire Unesco Alimentations du monde, Montpellier SupAgro, France Ken Meter is President of the Crossroads Resource Center, USA Amanda Di Battista is a Project Coordinator at the Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, Canada Carla Johnston is a PhD candidate, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Laurier Center for Sustainable Food Systems, Canada

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

338.1/9

Index

index present

LC call number

HD9000.5

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Routledge studies in food, society and the environment