Sustainable Food System Assessment: Lessons from Global Practice

ISBN-13: 9781138341951 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 264 str.

Blay-Palmer Alison; Damien Conare; Ken Meter

Opis

This book provides practical and theoretical insights about the growing interest in and response to measuring food system sustainability. Bringing together research from the Global North and South, this book shares lessons learned, explores intended and actual project outcomes, highlighting conceptual and methodological convergence.

Spis treści

1. Sustainable Food System Assessment: Lessons from global practice  Part I Conceptual Foundations 2. An Emerging User-led Participatory Methodology: Mapping Impact Pathways of Urban Food System Sustainability Innovations  3. Taking care of the land: an interdisciplinary approach to community-based food systems assessment in Kakisa, Northwest Territories, Canada  4. Assessing Food Systems as Complex Adaptive Systems: Conceptual Views and US Applications  Part II Operationalizing Sustainable Food System Assessment 5. Data gaps and the politics of data: Generating appropriate data for food system assessment in Cape Town, South Africa  6. Action research as a tool to measure progress in sustainable food cities: enacting reflexive governance principles to develop indicators   7. Building consensus on sustainable food system assessment: applying a Delphi survey  Part III Impacts and outcomes of sustainable food system assessment 8. Building the foundation to grow food policy: the development of a toolkit to measure advocacy capacity  9. Tools for Food System Change: City Region Food System Assessment, Planning and Policy  10. Assessing responsible food consumption in three Ecuadorian city regions  11. Integrating Upstream Determinants and Downstream Food Metrics  12. The View from Here: A Critical Consideration of Sustainable Food System Assessments