In response to the challenges of a growing population and food security, there is an urgent need to construct a new agri-food sustainability paradigm. This book brings together an integrated range of key social science insights exploring the contributions and interventions necessary to build this framework. Building on over ten years of ESRC funded theoretical and empirical research centered at BRASS, it focuses upon the key social, economic and political drivers for creating a more sustainable food system.
Themes include:
The book critically explores the linkages between social science research and the evolving food security problems facing the world at a critical juncture in the debates associated with not only food quality, but also its provenance, vulnerability and the inherent unsustainability of current systems of production and consumption. Each chapter examines how the links between research, practice and policy can begin to contribute to more sustainable, resilient and justly distributive food systems which would be better equipped to 'feed the world' by 2050.
| ISBN: | 9780415639552 |
| Publication date: | 27th May 2015 |
| Author: | Terry Marsden, Adrian Morley |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Series: | Earthscan Food and Agriculture |
| Genres: |
Development studies Environmental economics Biodiversity Health and safety in the workplace Botany and plant sciences Human geography Agricultural science Environmental management Urban and municipal planning and policy Agribusiness and primary industries Politics and government Civil engineering, surveying and building Environmental science, engineering and technology |