Concern about our food system is growing, from the costs of industrial farming to the dominant role of supermarkets and recurring scandals about the origins and content of what we eat.
Food for Change documents the way alternative food movements respond to these concerns by trying to create more closed economic circuits within which people know where, how, and by whom their food is produced.
Jeff Pratt, Peter Luetchford and other contributors explore the key political and economic questions of food through the everyday experience and vivid insights of farmers and consumers, using fieldwork from case studies in four European countries: France, Spain, Italy and England. Food for Change is an insightful consideration of connections between food and wider economic relations and draws on a rich vein of anthropological writing on the topic.
Table of Content
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Farming And Its Value by Jeff Pratt
3. Food And Consumption by Peter Luetchford
4. Tuscany, Italy by Jeff Pratt
5. The Tarn, France by Myriem Naji
6. Andalusia, Spain by Peter Luetchford
7. Sussex, England by Sara Avanzino
8. Food Activism
9. Economics And Morality
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Pete Luetchford is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Fair Trade and a Global Commodity (Pluto, 2007) and Food for Change (Pluto, 2013).
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