Pinning Big Hopes on Small Food Policy
The global pattern of nation states’ persistent neglect of the world’s most pressing issues is the unstated background to today’s precedent-breaking discussions about cities and food.
municipal food policy
How to Plan a Food Snowball
One of many problems caused by global warming is that fewer people know what it means to say something “snowballs.” How will people understand how food works?
Urban Ag: Taking steps toward political ecology
Practitioners of urban agriculture have a lot to be proud of, including forming part of a “food movement,” which is increasing in size and influence. People are questioning food systems conventions and the dominant forms of food production (industrial farming) and distribution (globalized trade) are being opposed more and more by communities around the globe. Urban agriculturists—with their claim for a viable alternative to the broken food system—seem to have at this moment a certain cultural cachet.