Sustainable Food Futures

Jessica Duncan is an Assistant Professor in the Rural Sociology Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands. She is the author of Global Food Security Governance: Civil society engagement in the reformed Committee on World Food Security (Routledge, 2015). Megan Bailey is an Assistant Professor in the Marine Affairs Program and Canada Research Chair, Integrated Ocean and Coastal Governance, Dalhousie University, Canada.

1. Sustainable Food Futures: Multidisciplinary solutions Part I: Recognizing Place 2.Cultural Relevance in Arctic food Security Initiatives 3.Rebuilding Consumers’ Trust in Food: Community Supported Agriculture in China 4.Place-based food systems: "re-valuing local" and fostering socio-ecological sustainability 5.Recovering Farmland Commons Part II: Enhancing Participation 6.The Political Economy of Customary Land Rights in Mozambique: Lessons from a Food Sovereignty Movement 7.Small-scale aquaculture in the Bolivian Amazon: A contextually-based solution for positive social and economic outcomes 8.Building ‘A World Where Many Worlds Fit’: Indigenous Autonomy, Mutual Aid, and an (Anti-Capitalist) Moral Economy of the (Rebel) Peasant Part III: Challenging Markets 9.Knowing how to bring food to the market: appreciating the contribution of intermediary traders to the future of food availability in Sub-Saharan Africa 10.Certify sustainable retailers? 11.The solution cannot be conventionalized: Protecting the alterity of fairer and more sustainable food networks Part IV: Designing sustainable food futures 12.Cultured meat, better than beans? 13.Soil Currency: Exploring a more equitable, sustainable, and participatory economic system 14.From pirate islands to communities of hope: Reflections on the circular economy of food systems Part V: Conclusions 15.Caution: Road work ahead