Open AccessIs “sustainability” still relevant to food systems, or do we need a new term?
Author(s) -
Mary Anderson
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of agriculture, food systems, and community development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2152-0798
pISSN - 2152-0801
DOI - 10.5304/jafscd.2021.111.018
Subject(s) - livelihood , sustainability , food systems , documentation , work (physics) , business , natural resource economics , environmental planning , greenhouse gas , agriculture , environmental resource management , political science , environmental ethics , engineering , economics , computer science , geography , food security , ecology , mechanical engineering , philosophy , archaeology , programming language , biology
I looked forward to reading the Routledge Handbook of Sustainable and Regenerative Food Systems because I greatly respect the work of its editors and wanted to know how they would organize such a vast topic. It hardly needs repeating that today’s dominant industrialized food system is destroying biodiversity, degrading soil and water, emitting greenhouse gases, creating products that cause diet-related diseases, erasing traditional farm livelihoods, and destroying farm communities. Despite ample documentation of the problems and wide agreement on their existence, the solutions are much more contentious. What are the alternatives to the destructive industrialized food system, and what is the best trajectory from current practices to a better future? I hoped that this book would provide solid answers. . . .