Rebuilding Local Food Systems From the Grassroots Up
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9200207 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth Henderson (0000-0002-2281-457X), E Elizabeth Henderson (0000-0002-3212-1080, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 112 |
| Publication date | 1998-07-09 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Monthly Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-0520 • E-ISSN: 0027-0520 |
| Publisher | Monthly Review Foundation (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.14452/mr-050-03-1998-07_9 |
| OpenAlex | W1976282557 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
The restructuring of the world food system under corporate control since the Second World War has resulted in a crisis with environmental, economic, and social dimensions. The symptoms of the crisis include loss of farmland and fan oers (and in the United States, especially minority farmers), impoverishment of rural economies and the decline of small towns, shrinking of the farmer's share of the food dollar, erosion of the soil, pollution of air and water with synthetic pesticides and farm run-off, the spread of monoculture and the correspondent decline of biodiversity—the litany of problems goes on and on. In the absence of a unified organizational response, a wide variety of individuals and groups have tackled different aspects of these problems and proposed solutions.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Biodiversity · Diversity (politics) · Economic policy · Economics · Geography · Grassroots · Liberian dollar · Litany · Monoculture · Natural resource economics · Political science · Resizing · Restructuring · Variety (cybernetics) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Ecology · Finance · Organic Food and Agriculture
Sustainability, self-reliance and aloha aina
From local consciousness to global change
Sustaining sustainable agriculture
The complexities of globalization
Sustaining local agriculture Barriers and opportunities to direct marketing between farms and restaurants in Colorado
Shifting plates in the agrifood landscape
The agrifood system policy agenda and research domain
Avoiding the Local Trap
Vertical Farming
The place of food
What is the “small farm”? Terminological incoherence in the literature and possible paths forward
Agent-based framework for modeling and simulation of resources in self-sustainable human settlements
Towards a theory of values-based labeling
The power of food
Place, food, and agriculture
Local Food
Herd Management
| Citations per year | 0.63 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1999 - 2025 (27) |
| Highly cited | No |