For hunger-proof cities : sustainable urban food systems / edited by Mustafa Koc [and others].

"Most of the papers in this volume were presented at the International Conference on Sustainable Urban Food Systems ... at Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto"--Page 4.

Includes bibliographical references.

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""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Food Security Is a Global Concern""; ""Part 1. The Concept of Urban Food Security""; ""For Self-reliant Cities: Urban Food Production in a Globalizing South""; ""Urban Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa""; ""Combining Social Justice and Sustainability for Food Security""; ""Part 2. Local Food Systems""; ""Promoting Sustainable Local Food Systems in the United States""; ""Community Agriculture Initiatives in the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, United Kingdom""

""Developing an Integrated, Sustainable Urban Food System: The Case of New Jersey, United States""""Public Policy and the Transition to Locally Based Food Networks""; ""Part 3. Urban and Community Agriculture""; ""Urban Agriculture in the Seasonal Tropics: The Case of Lusaka, Zambia""; ""The Contribution of Urban Agriculture to Gardeners, Their Households, and Surrounding Communities: The Case of Havana, Cuba""; ""Agriculture in the Metropolitan Park of Havana, Cuba""; ""People at the Centre of Urban Livestock Projects""; ""Measuring the Sustainability of Urban Agriculture""

""Part 4. Accessibility and Urban Food Distribution""""Food Banks as Antihunger Organizations""; ""Bottlenecks in the Informal Food-transportation Network of Harare, Zimbabwe""; ""From Staple Store to Supermarket: The Case of TANSAS in Izmir, Turkey""; ""A Nonprofit System for Fresh-produce Distribution: The Case of Toronto, Canada""; ""Part 5. Ecological and Health Concerns""; ""Urban Food, Health, and the Environment: The Case of Upper Silesia, Poland""; ""Reuse of Waste for Food Production in Asian Cities: Health and Economic Perspectives""

""How Meat-centred Eating Patterns Affect Food Security and the Environment""""Farming the Built Environment""; ""Part 6. Engendering the Food System""; ""Gender and Sustainable Food Systems: A Feminist Critique""; ""Women Workers in the NAFTA Food Chain""; ""Canadian Rural Women Reconstructing Agriculture""; ""Part 7. The Politics of Food and Food Policy""; ""Contemporary Food and Farm Policy in the United States""; ""Policy Failure in the Canadian Food System""; ""Urban Agriculture as Food-access Policy""; ""Part 8. Toward Food Democracy""

""Reaffirming the Right to Food in Canada: The Role of Community-based Food Security""""Youth, Urban Governance, and Sustainable Food Systems: The Cases of Hamilton and Victoria, Canada""; ""Food Policy for the 21st Century: Can It Be Both Radical and Reasonable?""; ""Appendix 1. Abstracts""; ""Appendix 2. Contributing Authors""; ""Appendix 3. Acronyms and Abbreviations""

For Hunger-proof Cities is the first book to fully examine food security from an urban perspective. It examines existing local food systems and ways to improve the availability and accessibility of food for city dwellers. It looks at methods to improve community-supported agriculture and cooperation between urban and rural populations. It explores what existing marketing and distribution structures can do to improve accessibility and what the emerging forms of food-distribution systems are, and how they can contribute to alleviating hunger in the cities. Finally, the book discusses the underly.

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