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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"food movement"”.
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Growing pains: the local food movement in northern Colorado
Global food and agribusiness corporations exhibit significant control over food production and consumption. Around the world, people contest this corporate food regime through efforts like local food movements. Critics often undermine the power of localism movements and claim that local food is a …
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Exploring the Online Farmers’ Market: Neoliberal Venture Capital Meets the Alternative Food Movement
… examines the recent merger of alternative food networks (AFNs) with technology startup food delivery companies. Rather than situating these new “online farmers’ markets” within a binary alternative-industrial framing, this work explores the ways in which these new market models bridge …
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The sociology of local food and transformational engagement: a case study of the rise of the local food movement
… qualitative ethnographic case study of the local food movement in Larimer County, Colorado is an examination of the epistemological nature of how key players like chefs, farmers and local food advocates create and reinforce the local food movement. This thesis examines sociological process, and …
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Training Tastes : A Relationship Approach to Food, Taste and the Senses through the Lens of the Slow Food Movement.
… is a growing dissatisfaction with the quality of food and this is seen as severely impacting upon social and cultural structures and institutions and as altering people's health, habits and ways of life. This thesis investigates in what way taste and people's sensuous engagement with food offers …
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Training tastes : a relationship approach to food, taste and the senses through the lens of the Slow Food Movement
… is a growing dissatisfaction with the quality of food and this is seen as severely impacting upon social and cultural structures and institutions and as altering people’s health, habits and ways of life. This thesis investigates in what way taste and people’s sensuous engagement with food offers …
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Growing Toward the Sun: How the Good-Food Movement Catapulted a Small New York City Third-Sector Organization into Rapid Growth, Success, and Many Challenges
… organization focused on what it calls "food justice." This study concentrates on how this organization, that I call Food Rights, has built a broad multi-sector network made up of a varied set of constituents and collaborators aiming to develop and promote an alternative food system for …
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Exploring Cultural Identity and Engagement among Hispanic Youth: Implications for Food Justice and Food System Development
… lifestyles and access to quality, nutritious food for marginalized groups, specifically Hispanics, is becoming an increasing topic of conversation. However, issues of access, availability, lack of initiatives in many areas which allow these individuals to become involved in the local food …
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Alimentação sustentável : uma revisão de literatura sobre SlowFood.
… passing through a literature review on the Slow Food movement. Knowing that food and nutrition security and the promotion of a healthy diet are important for healt h and quality of life, we realize the importance of the Slow Food movement that emerged i n 1989 with the aim of promoting a greater …
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Distant Localities: The Rhetorical Contradictions Of Local Food Narratives
… the rhetorical construction of the local food movement through the narrative genre of the food exposé. On its face, local food appears to be a grassroots movement, and yet, through an analysis of the tropes used to describe and construct the movement, another story emerges – one intended …
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Evaluation of motivations that influence consumer attitudes and behavior when purchasing local foods
In an increasingly complex and differentiated food system, the local food movement appears to be gaining momentum. This increased attention to the sustainable food movement highlights both the public and private benefits to eating local food, propelling the "local food" movement into the public eye …
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Moving Boxes Closer to Home: The Role of SYSCO Corporation in Food System Localization
Increasing demand for local food by foodservice establishments creates new opportunities and challenges for the local food movement. While there is considerable potential for local suppliers to sell more product volume closer to home, the business needs of foodservice establishments may not be …
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Moving Boxes Closer to Home: The Role of SYSCO Corporation in Food System Localization
Increasing demand for local food by foodservice establishments creates new opportunities and challenges for the local food movement. While there is considerable potential for local suppliers to sell more product volume closer to home, the business needs of foodservice establishments may not be …
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Celebrations everywhere: How social movements enact emotional culture to advance an ideology of local production
I investigate how social movements enact emotional culture to advance an ideology of local production in the context of local food initiatives in a small city in Canada. In Localtown, a local food movement conducts initiatives to rebuild the city’s local food system after decades of agricultural …
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Ontological Possibilities: Rhizoanalytic Explorations of Community Food Work in Central Appalachia
In the United States, the community food movement has been put forward as a potential solution for a global food system that fails to provide just and equitable access to nutritious food. This claim has been subject to the criticism of a variety of scholars and activists, some of whom contend that …
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Local Food and Economic Development
This dissertation examines the potential of local food as an economic development strategy in the United States. Using an interdisciplinary approach it traces the development of the local food movement within the broader historical context of U.S. agriculture, assesses the empirical evidence for …
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Aedre, An Automated Watering System
… of home gardening, partly due to the organic food movement, has increased desire and demand for a smarter irrigation solution. In order to tap into this growing agricultural market, Clearwater Industries has created Aedre, an automated watering solution. Aedre is designed not only for the home …
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Transforming food politics: community to community's intersectional ecofeminism and food sovereignty
… approach to analyzing problems in the food system and the activism of the food movement. This research undertakes the case of Community to Community, a grassroots organization that employs an intersectional analysis in their activism to center the voices and perspectives of women, to …
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Growing Communities: Urban Agriculture In Post-Katrina New Orleans
… communal and private spaces aimed at growing food. Urban agriculture in New Orleans has been looked to as a panacea for a myriad of issues. Activists around the city tout the importance of farms and gardens in city beautification, economic development, education, and making food more …
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The Urban Farmhouse Project : architecture for civic agriculture
… examination and critique of the industrialized food systems and infrastructures of the 20th century, a social movement has taken off to become a revolution in the last year and a half. Tied to a wide range of topics including health care, economic security, sustainable energy and climate change, …
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