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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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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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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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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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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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Kumusha and masalads: (inter)generational foodways and urban food security in Zimbabwe
Understandings of urban foodways in Zimbabwe and other African countries have been dominated by food security frameworks. The focus on material...
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Between ambitions and actions: how citizens navigate the entrepreneurial process of co-producing sustainable urban food futures
Cities increasingly envision sustainable future food systems. The realization of such futures is often understood from a planning perspective,...
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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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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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Easier said than defined? Conceptualising justice in food system transitions
The transition towards sustainable and just food systems is ongoing, illustrated by an increasing number of initiatives that try to address...
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What is culturally appropriate food consumption? A systematic literature review exploring six conceptual themes and their implications for sustainable food system transformation
There is increasing recognition that sustainable diets need to be ‘culturally appropriate’. In relation to food consumption, however, it is often...
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Food democracy: possibilities under the frame of the current food system
Food democracy is a concept with growing influence in food research. Food democracy deals with how actors may regain democratic control over the food...
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Beyond social embeddedness: probing the power relations of alternative food networks in China
Food justice scholars have criticized alternative food networks (AFNs) for lacking concern about gender, class, race, and ethnicity, thus not...
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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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Chinese food self-provisioning: key sustainability policy lessons hidden in plain sight
Drawing on an exploratory study of urban food self-provisioning (FSP) in China, this article argues that progress in sustainability scholarship can...
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"I wonder if I'm being [a] Karen”: Analyzing rural–urban farmer network building
Farmers, especially those within historically underserved populations, utilize networks to access educational training, community support, and market...
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Western Livestock Production and Their Challenge to Thompson’s Food System Archetypes
Food systems are complex and made especially so by the competing values that diverse communities attribute to them and expect from them. The four...
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The bright and the dark side of commercial urban agriculture labeling
Consumers have a growing desire to know where their food comes from and how it is produced, not only for health and safety reasons, but also to...
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Introduction to the Symposium: Rethinking Food System Transformation—Food Sovereignty, Agroecology, Food Justice, Community Action and Scholarship
Within the last decade, there has been a growing interest in merging community-based knowledge with scholarly voices to understand how food systems...