Jennifer Cockrall-King
Paperback | Pages: 372 pages Rating: 3.8 | 243 Users | 37 Reviews
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| ISBN: | 1616144580 (ISBN13: 9781616144586) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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A global movement to take back our food is growing. The future of farming is in our hands—and in our cities.This book examines alternative food systems in cities around the globe that are shortening their food chains, growing food within their city limits, and taking their "food security" into their own hands. The author, an award-winning food journalist, sought out leaders in the urban-agriculture movement and visited cities successfully dealing with "food deserts." What she found was not just a niche concern of activists but a global movement that cuts across the private and public spheres, economic classes, and cultures.
She describes a global movement happening from London and Paris to Vancouver and New York to establish alternatives to the monolithic globally integrated supermarket model. A cadre of forward-looking, innovative people has created growing spaces in cities: on rooftops, backyards, vacant lots, along roadways, and even in "vertical farms." Whether it’s a community public orchard supplying the needs of local residents or an urban farm that has reclaimed a derelict inner city lot to grow and sell premium market veggies to restaurant chefs, the urban food revolution is clearly underway and working.
This book is an exciting, fascinating chronicle of a game-changing movement, a rebellion against the industrial food behemoth, and a reclaiming of communities to grow, distribute, and eat locally.
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| Title | : | Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution |
| Author | : | Jennifer Cockrall-King |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 372 pages |
| Published | : | February 21st 2012 by Prometheus Books (first published January 1st 2012) |
| Categories | : | Food and Drink. Food. Nonfiction. Environment. Science. Agriculture. Gardening |
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Ratings: 3.8 From 243 Users | 37 ReviewsJudge Epithetical Books Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution
A must read for an international-minded urban gardener.363.8 C6666 2012
Really interesting, inspiring book. Great overview on what is currently going on with urban agriculture (pointing out several key players, cities, and experiments going on you can research further, if desired). Makes you want to go outside and grow a garden :)
Cockerall-King toured a number of cities around the world to view their urban gardening practices. From bee-keeping in Paris to rooftop gardens in Seoul, she gives examples of flourishing communities. Cockerall-King writes in a very accessible style so the pages fly by. Her discussion of how we got to this point where we are so urbanized and deeply disconnected sets the scene. "It would be funny if it weren't so tragic."In the face of Big Food, corporate control of seeds and increasing
From the smattering of urban gardens and farms visited by the author, mainly in North America, I would hesitate to call this a revolution, so much as a movement. Undoubtedly our industrial food system is extremely vulnerable to supply disruptions due to it's efficiency, yet this locavore grow-your-own-food initiative by a minority of enlightened city dwellers will in all likelihood be too slow to mean any effective change in the overarching global food system. Don't get me wrong, while the ideas
Really interesting, inspiring book. Great overview on what is currently going on with urban agriculture (pointing out several key players, cities, and experiments going on you can research further, if desired). Makes you want to go outside and grow a garden :)
Super interesting book. Great regional history, never preachy...yet informative enough in depth and scope to teach about the unsustainable food situation we are all part of with gems on how we can get with this cool trend.
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