- Title
- Enterprise innovation and economic diversity in community-supported agriculture: sustaining the agricultural commons
- Creator
- Cameron, Jenny
- Relation
- Making Other Worlds Possible: Performing Diverse Economies p. 53-71
- Relation
- https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/making-other-worlds-possible
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- Globally, we are confronted with a host of agricultural issues. They include debates about how best to feed an increasingly urbanized global population, how to sustain smallholder and family-based farming in a context in which agriculture is being increasingly corporatized, and how to minimize food loss and food wastage along the entire food-supply chain. They also include assessments of the ability of industrial versus agroecological forms of agriculture to nourish the world, of ways to protect the ecosystem services, such as pollination, that agriculture relies on, and of what the impacts of climate change will be on agricultural systems more generally. Perhaps the one characteristic that these debates and assessments share is a tendency to partition the production end of things from the retail and consumption end. There is one set of ideas for ways forward to be applied to producers and another set for retailers and consumers (at least when discussions are about nonsubsistence-based agriculture). It seems that the food-supply chain is even more attenuated, especially when pronouncements are made that kids don't know anymore that mil comes from cows (or sheep or goats, or even soy or almonds or rice). What difference would it make if the "distance" between producers and consumers was shortened? What types of innovations might emerge if the issues that agricultural producers face were redefined as a shared responsibility across the food supply chain?
- Subject
- geography; sociology; cultural studies; agriculture
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1317266
- Identifier
- uon:23378
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780816693290
- Language
- eng
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