Rethinking Food System Transformation

Rachel Bezner Kerr

ISBN 10: 3031304837 / ISBN 13: 9783031304835

Published by Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023

About this Item

Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book contains a collection of selected papers from the 2017Farm-to-Plate: Uniting for a Just and Sustainable Food Systemconference in Ithaca, New York, which explored what different advocates, stakeholders, growers, and community members today prioritize when it comes to justice, action, and transformation in the agri-food system. The research presented at this symposium shows the diverse range of approaches scientists have taken to investigate this aforementioned question. The papers represent a combined effort to creatively educate, share, and connect work being done by stakeholders on food system transformation.Previously published in Agriculture and Human ValuesVolume 36, issue 4, December 2019.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rethinking Food System Transformation
• Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3031304837
• ISBN 13: 9783031304835
• Binding: Buch
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 285W x 215H x 11D millimeters 285 millimeters width by 215 millimeters height by 11 millimeters depth
• Weight: 501 grams

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Synopsis

This book contains a collection of selected papers from the 2017 Farm-to-Plate: Uniting for a Just and Sustainable Food System conference in Ithaca, New York, which explored what different advocates, stakeholders, growers, and community members today prioritize when it comes to justice, action, and transformation in the agri-food system. The research presented at this symposium shows the diverse range of approaches scientists have taken to investigate this aforementioned question. The papers represent a combined effort to creatively educate, share, and connect work being done by stakeholders on food system transformation. 

Previously published in Agriculture and Human Values Volume 36, issue 4, December 2019

About the Author

Rachel Bezner Kerr is a Professor in Global Development at Cornell University, and does research in Africa on sustainable agriculture, gender, climate change adaptation, food security and nutrition. She has published over 80 scientific articles. She was a Coordinating Lead Author for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Dr. Bezner Kerr also served as a member of the High Level Panel of Experts for the United Nations Committee for World Food Security, coauthoring the 2019 report on agroecology. She has carried out participatory research with farmers in Malawi and Tanzania on agroecology, nutrition and climate-change related studies. Dr. Bezner Kerr attained her PhD in Development Sociology at Cornell University.