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OverviewSustainable Food System Assessment provides both 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, and highlights points of conceptual and methodological convergence. Interest in assessing food system sustainability is growing, as evidenced by the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact and the importance food systems initiatives have taken in serving as a lever for attaining the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This book opens by looking at the conceptual considerations of food systems indicators, including the place-based dimensions of food systems indicators and how measurements are implicated in sense-making and visioning processes. Chapters in the second part cover operationalizing metrics, including the development of food systems indicator frameworks, degrees of indicator complexities, and practical constraints to assessment. The final part focuses on the outcomes of assessment projects, including impacts on food policy and communities involved, highlighting the importance of building connections between sustainable food systems initiatives. The global coverage and multi-scalar perspectives, including both conceptual and practical aspects, make this a key resource for academics and practitioners across planning, geography, urban studies, food studies, and research methods. It will also be of interest to government officials and those working within NGOs. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alison Blay-Palmer , Damien Conaré (Chaire Unesco Alimentations du monde, France) , Ken Meter (Crossroads Resource Center, USA) , Amanda Di Battista (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.412kg ISBN: 9781032083933ISBN 10: 103208393 Pages: 284 Publication Date: 30 June 2021 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. 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 AssessmentsReviewsAuthor InformationAlison Blay-Palmer is Director, Centre for Sustainable Food Systems and Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada Damien Conaré is Secrétaire general of the Chaire Unesco Alimentations du monde, Montpellier SupAgro, France Ken Meter is President of the Crossroads Resource Center, USA Amanda Di Battista is a Project Coordinator at the Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, Canada Carla Johnston is a PhD candidate, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Laurier Center for Sustainable Food Systems, Canada Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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