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Social solidarity, social infrastructure, and community food access
This study examines the case of community resource mobilization within the context of a farmers market incentive program in Washington D.C., USA to...
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Assessing changes in food pantry access after extreme events
Food pantries play a growing role in supporting households facing or at risk of food insecurity in the United States. They also support emergency...
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Redlining, racism and food access in US urban cores
In the 1930s, the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) graded the mortgage security of urban US neighborhoods. In doing so, the HOLC engaged in the...
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Bringing together urban systems and food systems theory and research is overdue: understanding the relationships between food and nutrition infrastructures along a continuum of contested and hybrid access
Urban dwellers’ food and nutritional wellbeing are both dependent on infrastructure and can be indicative of wider wellbeing in urban contexts and...
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Socioeconomic Status and Individual Personal Responsibility Beliefs Towards Food Access
Despite worldwide attention given to food access, very little progress has been made under the current model. Recognizing that individual engagement...
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From Nutritional Capability to Food Capability: Measurement of Multidimensional Food Poverty in Japan
Amartya Sen’s work has contributed to shifting our focus from food availability to food access and utilisation, together called ‘nutritional...
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Urban food governance without local food: missing links between Czech post-socialist cities and urban food alternatives
Food is becoming an increasingly important issue in the urban context. Urban food policies are a new phenomenon in Czechia, where urban food...
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Transitions to Food Sustainability with Intergenerational and Ecological Justice
The negative impacts of agriculture on the environment and the inequity that limits access to healthy food for the entire population impede...
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Equity and resilience in local urban food systems: a case study
Local food systems can have economic and social benefits by providing income for producers and improving community connections. Ongoing global...
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Rethinking the Alternatives: Food Sovereignty as a Prerequisite for Sustainable Food Security
The concept of food sovereignty is primarily taken as an alternative to the prevailing neoliberal food security model. However, the approach has...
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The relevance of food sovereignty assessments in urban sites of scarcity: lessons from mothers in Cap-Haitian, Haiti
Urban food sovereignty is a growing field of research and a site of struggle for food justice advocates, but it has gained less attention in...
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Food Ethics as Relational Ethics
This chapter reviews and discusses the problems that an ethics of eating and drinking has to address. First, it shows that such form of ethics falls...
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Identity and Food Choice: You Are What You Eat?
We use Marya Schechtman’s Narrative Self-Constitution View to support the widespread idea that food can contribute to the construction and expression...
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Ambient struggling: food, chronic disease, and spatial isolation among the urban poor
This paper uses the survival strategies of food shelf clients to explore how food access, chronic disease, and spatial isolation shape the lives of...
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Promoting Food Sovereignty in the Sahel: Lessons from Indigenous Food Systems
Indigenous food systems represent a treasure trove of knowledge that contributes to well-being and health, benefiting communities, preserving a rich...
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Reviving shekhawati food and local food system through commoning: a case from Nawalgarh, India
Regional food is grounded in local practices and heritage. With industrialization and post-green revolution threat to food produced within specific...
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What is a food system? Exploring enactments of the food system multiple
Recent years have seen widespread calls to transform food systems to address complex demands such as feeding a growing global population while...
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How do the people that feed Europe feed themselves? Exploring the (in)formal food practices of Almería’s migrant and seasonal food workers
The EU's Farm to Fork strategy (European Commission European Commission. 2020. Farm to Fork strategy.
https://food.ec.europa.eu/horizontal-topics/farm-fork-strategy_en... 
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Food justice, intersectional agriculture, and the triple food movement
Emerging as an intersectional response to social inequalities perpetuated by the mainstream food movement in the United States, the food justice...
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Early Conceptual Knowledge About Food
Recent research suggests that preschool (three- to six-years-old) children’s food cognition involves much more than the nutritional information...
