Creating Food Futures

Trade, Ethics and the Environment

Publication Date	October 2008
Publisher	Ashgate Publishing
Product Type	Book
Pages	268
ISBN Number	9780754649076
Product Code	ASH00449

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Summary

A global transformation in food supply and consumption is placing our food security at risk. What changes need to be made to the ways we trade, process and purchase our food if everyone in the world is going to have enough wholesome food to eat? Is there genuine scope for creating food futures that embrace considerations such as ecological sustainability and social equity as well as placing good food on the table - and making money?

Drawing upon examples of innovative food chains in Europe, Canada, Africa and Latin America, leading academics and practitioners challenge the idea that individuals are powerless in the face of global supply chains and the legal apparatus protecting them. The authors do not, however, underestimate the scale of the task at hand. They explore the tensions and dilemmas inherent in innovative practice - such as the ethics of mainstreaming, balancing a variety of goals and the ways in which success is defined - as well as presenting success stories and explaining how they were achieved.

Creating Food Futures provides you with inspiring examples of what is being done and thought-provoking suggestions for future work.

Content

Foreword
Creating food futures: trade, ethics and the environment, Cathy Rozel Farnworth, Janice Jiggins and Emyr Vaughan Thomas
Part I The Big Picture - Innovations that Enable Action: The retail-led transformation of agrifood systems, Julio A. Berdegu and Thomas Reardon
Regulation, sovereignty and accountability in the food chain, Megan Waples
Innovation in policy: the Common Agricultural Policy and dimensions of regime change, Emyr Vaughan Thomas
The Swedish foodshed: re-imagining our support area, Susanne Johansson
Growing sustainable communities: understanding the social-economic footprints of organic family farms, Matthew Reed, Allan Butler, and Matt Lobley. Part II Case Studies - Innovations in Stakeholder and Organisational Relationships: Balancing business and empowerment in fair fruit chains: the experience of Solidaridad, Irene Guijt and Edith van Walsum
The FoodTrust of Prince Edward Island, Canada, Woody Wilson
Beyond profit making: combining economic and social goals in the German organic agriculture and food sector, Martina Schfer
The Cornwall food programme, Roy Heath and Mike Pearson
Ethics in French wine cooperatives: part of a social movement?, Yuna Chiffoleau, Fabrice Dreyfus and Jean-Marc Touzard. Part III Changing the Rules of the Game: Impacts of the supermarket revolution and the policy and strategic responses, Julio A. Berdegu and Thomas Reardon
Supermarkets: a force for the good?, Robert Duxbury with Cathy Rozel Farnworth
Mixing is the way of the world: a new social label, Cathy Rozel Farnworth
Responsibility in value chains and capability structures, Jrme Ballet, Jean-Luc Dubois and Franois-Rgis Mahieu
Food, environment, and the good life, David E. Cooper
Conversion or co-option? The implications of 'mainstreaming' for producer and consumer agency within fair trade networks, Stewart Lockie
Towards a new agenda, Cathy Rozel Farnworth, Emyr Vaughan Thomas and Janice Jiggins
Index.