This is the first text to present a scholarly, balanced approach to the contentious area of food production and supply up to 2050 - offering a readable and well-informed account which tackles the global food situation in all its totality, from agricultural production, technological advance, dietary concerns, population changes, income trends, environmental issues, government food and agriculture policy, trade, financial markets, macroeconomics and...

"North Minneapolis is a predominantly low-income African-American community in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Community organizers and leaders in North Minneapolis have been attempting to transform the dominant food system into a local food system integrating four alternative food movement paradigms. This paper aims to present the community's vision and understanding of the work it must do in this transformative food systems work through the development...

"Local Food Systems have been researched and studied a great deal over the past years, with researchers seeking links between the community and sense of place. Several factors go into analyzing a local food system: food access, affordability, historical context, sense of place connection, urban vs. rural developments, demographics and the intersection of local policy. These factors set the contextual basis for this paper's review, measuring how experiential...